3rd November 2003, 10:55 PM
Wow, you don't get Palpatine at all...
See... the Republic IS corrupt. Palpatine knows this... now you think he's doing what he is for purely power reasons. I'm not so sure. Oh, sure, the Sith want power and strength and control... and this is the perfect opportunity. If the Republic wasn't so weak he wouldn't be able to act... but because it is he can. I am sure that he thinks his authoritarian rule will be better and fairer than the decrepit republic... now is a lot of what he says to both sides lies? Of course! He's playing everyone off eachother for his own personal gain!
However... he isn't trying to destroy the Republic. No, that'd be easy... taking it over from inside without anyone knowing, which is what he is doing, is much harder and more insidious. Trying to weaken it? Absolutely not! That's the last thing he wants... see for one the Senate is already pretty much paralyzed and powerless. If that was not the case he never would be able to do what he did... but what he wants is all the power for him. He creates a threat -- the Seperatists. Now they have real greivances, of course... he saw the opportunity there because of those greivances. And he made them into a full-fledged rebellion. But he of course wants it to ultimately fail... it to do well enough that he will be able to get complete control (by being given the emergency powers and a large army that he orchistrated the construction of years before TPM (the clone army)) of the government of the Republic. And by the time people realize that he will not use that power just for the good of the Republic...
Its too late. Bait and switch, and you've got the Empire... and the Senate? It hangs on for 20 years (remember in ANH it was just dissolved), but is essentially powerless... and he has remade the government of the universe according to his whim.
Started with good intentions? Now that can't even be said? What in the world? Did you even WATCH TPM? If you did you'd know that that's an absurd idea...
Anyway, that's the plan and the prequel series shows how he does it so well. Very smart guy, really... he just happens to be very evil. :)
Is he straight evil? Kinda... but he has good reasons for it. Wouldn't you say that many thousands of years of your people having to hide, after your kind were obliterated by a powerful force that helps control the galaxy, is a pretty good motivation? The Sith want to destroy the galaxy. Of course they also want to make everyone in the universe their slaves or playthings... but destroying the Jedi is most important. And once he has power he does his best to do that... an almost succeeds completely.
Why is he a Sith? We don't know that yet, maybe Ep.3 will say that. But given that he is... his motivations are clear. He wants revenge and power... is he insane? Quite probably. But still, he manages to pull off the whole plot flawlessly... the only problem is that over the 20 years after he takes over somehow he starts to lose control... giving a chance for his remaining enemies to strike back.
See... the Republic IS corrupt. Palpatine knows this... now you think he's doing what he is for purely power reasons. I'm not so sure. Oh, sure, the Sith want power and strength and control... and this is the perfect opportunity. If the Republic wasn't so weak he wouldn't be able to act... but because it is he can. I am sure that he thinks his authoritarian rule will be better and fairer than the decrepit republic... now is a lot of what he says to both sides lies? Of course! He's playing everyone off eachother for his own personal gain!
However... he isn't trying to destroy the Republic. No, that'd be easy... taking it over from inside without anyone knowing, which is what he is doing, is much harder and more insidious. Trying to weaken it? Absolutely not! That's the last thing he wants... see for one the Senate is already pretty much paralyzed and powerless. If that was not the case he never would be able to do what he did... but what he wants is all the power for him. He creates a threat -- the Seperatists. Now they have real greivances, of course... he saw the opportunity there because of those greivances. And he made them into a full-fledged rebellion. But he of course wants it to ultimately fail... it to do well enough that he will be able to get complete control (by being given the emergency powers and a large army that he orchistrated the construction of years before TPM (the clone army)) of the government of the Republic. And by the time people realize that he will not use that power just for the good of the Republic...
Its too late. Bait and switch, and you've got the Empire... and the Senate? It hangs on for 20 years (remember in ANH it was just dissolved), but is essentially powerless... and he has remade the government of the universe according to his whim.
Started with good intentions? Now that can't even be said? What in the world? Did you even WATCH TPM? If you did you'd know that that's an absurd idea...
Anyway, that's the plan and the prequel series shows how he does it so well. Very smart guy, really... he just happens to be very evil. :)
Is he straight evil? Kinda... but he has good reasons for it. Wouldn't you say that many thousands of years of your people having to hide, after your kind were obliterated by a powerful force that helps control the galaxy, is a pretty good motivation? The Sith want to destroy the galaxy. Of course they also want to make everyone in the universe their slaves or playthings... but destroying the Jedi is most important. And once he has power he does his best to do that... an almost succeeds completely.
Why is he a Sith? We don't know that yet, maybe Ep.3 will say that. But given that he is... his motivations are clear. He wants revenge and power... is he insane? Quite probably. But still, he manages to pull off the whole plot flawlessly... the only problem is that over the 20 years after he takes over somehow he starts to lose control... giving a chance for his remaining enemies to strike back.
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