Star Wars vs Star Trek

[Weltall]

How do you know this?

He's been a wooden puppet for five movies running, how do you know he suddenly becomes the tragic villain?

I mean, hell, it's quite a good thing if it were true, and it would kind of fit since Vader had that happen, but with Vader, the whole freaking series basically is about Anakin the Manakin's whiny teenager-come-evil supervillain. When he turned good at the end, it wasn't a real surprise because his redemption, and Luke's role in it, was probably the major background theme of the movie.

However, after five full movies, Palpatine is still a cookie-cutter villain, who is evil for absolutely no good reason except the story needs an all-powerful bad guy. Nothing at all in the movies has even hinted at him having some sort of personal justification or meaning to his naughty ways. He simply steals candy from babies... just because.

So no, the series isn't finished yet, but we've only got one left and there's a lot of character development missing on the character who is perhaps the most pivotal and important in the entire saga, far too much to cram into one movie. Whatever backstory we get will be hardly sufficient, and it will be vastly overshadowed by Doogie Howser's angst-ridden descent into Vaderdom.