PT Why didn't Windu warn the other Jedi about Palpatine prior to going to arrest him?

After he just found out that the Commander in Chief of the entire Clone Army (which have been bred for obedience) was the Sith Lord, why did he not send out a warning to all the Jedi? Mention that Palpatine is the Sith Lord, and because of this, to be wary of the Clone Troopers. Adding in TCW to the mix, Windu and Yoda should have recalled the incident with Tup and the clone turning on the Jedi. So, I guess, why did Windu not send out a general warning to all the Jedi prior to going to Palpatine's office? That could have saved many lives during Order 66.

 

True, and I suppose it shows his arrogance

 

He overestimated Palpatine. He thought four Jedi Council members would be more than enough to take Palpatine in. It should have been a quick affair, with Palpatine either going in quietly or putting up a fight that the Jedi could have handled. The priority was to arrest Palpatine as quickly as they could before he could react to their finding out about him. But they didn't know Palpatine expected their reaction, and that he knew he could take three of them out with such ease.

 

He could have sent some type of warning on the ride to the Chancellor's office though. Something that's to the point, simple, and allows the Jedi to be slightly more cautious

 

It was a hasty (patience!), foolish decision.

I really think it's an OOU thing, it would make for a dull scene and would/should prevent Darth Vader's surprise attack on the Temple. It's a movie.

IU, I don't think we can really know what was going on in Mace's head. Idk, maybe "I got this". Why he wouldn't bother telling anyone, idk. Seems unreasonably foolish for Mace, the guy who sensed a plot to destroy the Jedi.

Maybe he just didn't think of it, idk. Recklessly rushing off to face your enemy and paying for it is a recurring deal in Star Wars.

 

Agree with CT.

Does it bother me? no not really they needed to hurry the film along, was it idiotic and not a well thought out decision? yeah, but that maybe was the point.

Also Mace had no idea about order 66 at that point, another hour or two wouldn't have made much difference, why was it "such a hurry, right this second" thing.

 

A message stating be on your guard wouldn't have hurt.

 

I think they also attempt to address this by having Yoda and Obi-Wan go to the Jedi Temple to warn the Jedi to stay away. Perhaps there were other ways to send a mass message to the Jedi, but only an encrypted one would have been regarded as completely authentic and protected from potential enemies. Obvioulsy, Mace could have (and should have) hologrammed Yoda, but again, he overestimated Palpatine.

 

What the Jedi "learned" from Tup and Fives was that there were a bunch of chips in the clones' heads that were stopping them from going berserk and killing Jedi. Unless Palpatine could remotely remove every single clone trooper's chip simultaneously from across the galaxy, there was no reason for Windu to suspect what would happen, given what he knew.

 

True. But they also learned that the man "Tyranus", who ordered the army, was Dooku. They already knew he was a Sith, but not that he was Tyranus. So they now know that the Sith were in charge of ordering that army. And Palpatine is the leader of the Republic AKA Commander in Chief of that Army. Red Flag much?

 

So what? As Yoda stated, the clones have saved their lives multiple times throughout the war. Why should they be wary of the clones when going to arrest Palpatine?

 

In the novel, he does warn Yoda at least:

In the virtual nonspace of the HoloNet, two Jedi Masters meet.
One is ancient, tiny, with skin of green leather and old wisdom in his eyes, standing in a Kashyyyk cave hollowed from the trunk of a vast wroshyr tree; the other is tall and fierce, seated before a holodisk in Coruscant's Jedi Temple.
To each other, they are blue ghosts, given existence by scanning lasers. Though they are light-years apart, they are of one mind; it hardly matters who says what.
Now they know the truth.
For more than a decade, the Republic has been in the hands of the Sith.
Now, together, blue ghost to blue ghost, they decide to take it back.

 

I think arrogance was part of it, along with an overwhelming feeling of impending triumph. He was finally going to confront the Sith Lord that had been fouling up the galaxy and endangering the Jedi. This was the moment he'd been waiting for, and he didn't want to let anything distract him, including worrying about what might happen.

 

Another point to consider is that any warning that Mace tried to send could potentially have been intercepted by the Sith which would mean that Mace loses the element of surprise. Of course, Mace doesn't have the element of surprise as Palpatine knows that the Jedi are coming but it's possible that Mace thought he had the element of surprise. If Mace did think he had the element of surprise, that would also explain why he was in such a hurry to confront the Palpatine.

 

Also he told Anakin to remain, and would have defeated Palpatine, if Anakin hadn't lopped his hand off. So confidence in his own abilities was not necessarily misplaced...

 

I sense a plot to turn this into a did Palpatine throw the fight thread

 

I know the novelization isn't the same as the movie, but in the novel, didn't he have the remaining Jedi Knights and Masters secure the Temple before he went to confront Palpatine?

 

But like KeithyT said, Mace actually won the fight against Palpatine (unless you're of the persuasion that Palpatine could have beaten him but threw the fight). Mace died that night because he didn't expect Anakin to betray him. But had Anakin not betrayed him or had Anakin not turned up at all, Mace would have killed Palpatine, no question about it.

 

It was a mixture of both arrogance and haste. Obviously there was time for Mace to get some kind of word out as they flew from the Temple to the Senate where Palpatine's offices were. He didn't do it because he didn't feel the need too. He felt, as others have said, that he had enough Jedi Masters in tow to take on any threat. There is a continuing theme throughout the prequels that the Jedi had grown very arrogant int heir ways. Something that even Yoda points out in AOTC. We see it in TPM when Qui Gon suggests that the Sith were back, Ki Adi replies "Impossible!" and mace says that they would have known if the Sith had returned. We see Yoda in AOTC lecture Obi Wan about even the older Jedi becoming arrogant, a trait that he is seeing more and more. Even as Mace walked into Palpatine's office, you can see the arrogance in his walk.

Even though arrogance played it's part, you can't rule out haste either, mace had other things on his mind, the entire future of the Jedi Order being the big one.

So in those moments, Mace made a hasty, arrogant decision.

Also, Palpatine did throw the fight, I believe Lucas has been quoted as such.

 

lol Lord Chazza and anakinfansince1983 Not my intention at all but that thread has taken on a life of it's own hasn't it?