3rd November 2003, 10:27 PM
Quote:-Palpatine wanted to take over the universe and cure it of all its political failings and impotence. Of course to do this he'd have to make it into a police state, but that is the price of security and the perfect society...
Okay, so far as I've been able to tell, that whole idea is a front. It seems apparent to me that he is manipulating the Republic's government to weaken it from within so that when he starts his evil reign, his second-largest obstacle after the Jedi no longer serves as a viable threat to him. And, the easiest way to weaken the Republic is to create corruption within it's government... and what better way to do that than be the head of that government? Hell, by this point in the series it can't even be said that he started with good intentions, because he obviously did not. He's been a Sith Lord since TPM and likely long before that.
No, so far in the movies, he has displayed not a single iota of motivation that extends beyond the terribly simple "I want total power for no good reason but I'll do anything to get it" cliche. Not one word or action from Palpatine suggests he even has the slightest feelings of misguided altruism that you suggest he has. Now, he'd be far more interesting if he did, but in the movies he does not, not in any of the four that he's appeared in. He's straight evil without reason or redemption. And that makes him terribly uninteresting and poorly developed, like some melodramatic villain in a 1930's comic or a modern children's cartoon.
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