Mace Windu surviving that fall is just as dumb as Darth Maul being resurrected with robotic spider legs. If death has no consequences in the Star Wars universe then we are robbed of the dramatic tension and danger and left with stupid fanfiction.
I think it's a
little different. I mean, yes, Maul surviving is...well, it's just completely unbelievable. The guy was bisected and fell down a bottomless shaft. HOWEVER, Maul was so criminally under-used in TPM that it sort of makes sense that we want to hand-waive away his death, if only to allow people to explore his character more. While I agree that death needs to be more final in the Star Wars universe, I can see a narrative argument for having Maul survive or for the Maul we see being some half-grown clone who has no idea he's even really a clone. Or whatever.
Mace Windu, on the other hand, was decently explored, both in the films, and in the Clone Wars cartoon. We've gotten to spend plenty of time with him. There's no need to keep him around, and no narrative benefit whatsoever.
I didn't like Maul being resurrected either. I think they just realized they blew it by killing him off so soon. Out of all three I would only buy Fett surviving because he did have armor and a jetpack.
Exactly.
I would accept Boba Fett escaping the Sarlacc pit if ROTJ itself contained some kind of hint of the possibility. Not without that.
Yeah, I could buy Fett escaping the Sarlacc. Of all the guys who fell in that day, Fett is the ONE GUY who I could believe would find a way out.
And his death feels like the least final of the three, mostly because his has the most plausible "get out of death free" explanations. He was wearing an armored and armed battlesuit WITH a jetpack. He fell in whole (e.g., not missing limbs or, you know, half of his freakin' body). The battle suit contains a wrist-rocket, a flamethrower, and who knows what other goodies, AND a jetpack. So, yeah, I can see Fett getting out.