Musings on Palpatine's brilliance...
Posted: 2017-02-28 04:29pm
IIRC in the novelization it was part of Palp's plan to make himself truly vulnerable and thus kill-able in order to turn Anakin... IMO if he wasn't playing around, I think Mace Windu could still have a shot at beating him. But then again, it's really poetic if Palpatine realized that he might not be able to beat Windu and thus allowed himself to be defeated and nearly killed in order to turn Anakin and thus truly defeat not only Windu but also the entire Jedi Order.
Ironic that a Sith who placed himself on the verge of getting his ass killed did more than all the uber-sun exploding, soul-sucking, universe-punching x-ray heatvisioning, superspeeding, adamantium-clawed, planet-sized shoulder-padded, grimdark skull-banner-spike-wearing, Chaos-worshipping, horcrux-laying, ring-wielding, Reed Richards-rivaling, magnetism-wielding, apocalyptic pyramid-making, anti-life-seeking, infinity gauntlet-wielding, flying-rodent-fixated crime-fighting, skull-shirt vigilantisming, blind devil-daring, shitty suicide squadding forehead-tattooing, flame-kindling soul-darking, clown-faced Spawn-sending Sith Lords and sinister misters in all of the Star Wars galaxy's history. (Pls. check if my rundown of all the Dark Side users in Star Wars is thorough pls. )
Palpatine's true mastery of eeeeevvviiilll or his brilliance or whatever is in realizing the weakness of not only Anakin but also of the Jedi, the love that they had, which made them do all sorts of things to protect those they treasured (Padme, the people of the galaxy, etc.). That is worth an entire galaxy's or an entire EU's worth of "uuurggghhh I'm so badasss peace is a llliieeee there is only passsssion! I care not for vulnerabilities look at me slitting my wrists with my lightsabers and covering my Star Destroyer with tattoos and wearing lightsaber-piercings! CRAWLING IN MY SKIN THESE WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEEAAALLLL" adolescent Sith crap they teach acolytes in those Sith holocrons that are made out of crystallized orphan blood, or prophecies divined from rolling dice made from orphan bones or scattering guts made out of orphan organs.
In a way that makes Palpatine wiser than other Dark Loyds of fiction too, like Vlodemort and his Death Dealers.
I guess Palpatine's realization of the weakness of love is because he himself knew love ones... that is why he sired Trioculus.
Ironic that a Sith who placed himself on the verge of getting his ass killed did more than all the uber-sun exploding, soul-sucking, universe-punching x-ray heatvisioning, superspeeding, adamantium-clawed, planet-sized shoulder-padded, grimdark skull-banner-spike-wearing, Chaos-worshipping, horcrux-laying, ring-wielding, Reed Richards-rivaling, magnetism-wielding, apocalyptic pyramid-making, anti-life-seeking, infinity gauntlet-wielding, flying-rodent-fixated crime-fighting, skull-shirt vigilantisming, blind devil-daring, shitty suicide squadding forehead-tattooing, flame-kindling soul-darking, clown-faced Spawn-sending Sith Lords and sinister misters in all of the Star Wars galaxy's history. (Pls. check if my rundown of all the Dark Side users in Star Wars is thorough pls. )
Palpatine's true mastery of eeeeevvviiilll or his brilliance or whatever is in realizing the weakness of not only Anakin but also of the Jedi, the love that they had, which made them do all sorts of things to protect those they treasured (Padme, the people of the galaxy, etc.). That is worth an entire galaxy's or an entire EU's worth of "uuurggghhh I'm so badasss peace is a llliieeee there is only passsssion! I care not for vulnerabilities look at me slitting my wrists with my lightsabers and covering my Star Destroyer with tattoos and wearing lightsaber-piercings! CRAWLING IN MY SKIN THESE WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEEAAALLLL" adolescent Sith crap they teach acolytes in those Sith holocrons that are made out of crystallized orphan blood, or prophecies divined from rolling dice made from orphan bones or scattering guts made out of orphan organs.
In a way that makes Palpatine wiser than other Dark Loyds of fiction too, like Vlodemort and his Death Dealers.
I guess Palpatine's realization of the weakness of love is because he himself knew love ones... that is why he sired Trioculus.