couple of RotS questions (spoilers)

[Brother Shatterstone]

Anybody else notice when Sidious touches Vader's head gently at the edge of the lava flow when the plebe's are sent to get a medical pod? It was almost compassionate. Kinda scary.

It did, and it was, I also agree that Palpatine was easing his pain and stabilizing him...

If anything Vader is the only person that Palpatine treats as a human, at least for any extent of time, everyone else is a tool to be used until broken or replaced with something better. (And even Vader can escape the later…)

I think the way that Palpatine treats others is more to do with his long life than anything else but I do think Vader was treated like a son cause Palpatine, or his master, created him or because of their many, many talks they’ve had since Anakin came to the Coruscant after TPM.

 

[EricNoah]

I changed my sig in honor of this thread!

Edit: of course it isn't showing up after I changed it.
Edit 2: it's now showing up in previous posts of mine. That's wild. The system is going back and changing my original sig in earlier posts to the new one.

System's rigged to only show a particular user's sig once per page.

And sigs are dynamic -- if you change them in your profile, they change everywhere they appeared.

 

[Taelorn76]

I never understood why (in the case of the balance to the force) the Jedi would want to bring balance to a situation where they had the upper hand...dozens of Jedi vs. 2 Sith. It was clearly unbalanced in the Jedis' favor.

There is a discussion in another tread about the prophacy, and the balance of the force. A quick cliff notes version is that Lucas says the Sith are an abberation of the force and to achieve balance they must be wiped out.

Star Wars - The Chosen One, Balance to the Force, and my son Connor

 

[rgard]

System's rigged to only show a particular user's sig once per page.

And sigs are dynamic -- if you change them in your profile, they change everywhere they appeared.

Thanks for the tech insight!

 

[rgard]

There is a discussion in another tread about the prophacy, and the balance of the force. A quick cliff notes version is that Lucas says the Sith are an abberation of the force and to achieve balance they must be wiped out.

Star Wars - The Chosen One, Balance to the Force, and my son Connor

Thanks!

 

[Henry]

Believe it or not, I think that Palpatine DOES care somewhat about Anakin at this point. They still have the teachings of the Sith to ultimately guide them, but also they do have a certain amount of familiarity between them, and really, at this point in the disaster freak-show that is left of the Republic, all they have is one another at this point.

 

[jester47]

I think the Sith created Anakin, but the random discovery by Qui-Gon threw Sideous for a loop. I mean look at who Anikin belongs to when we see him in TPM, he belongs to a guy that jedi mental control does not work on. Thus there is no chance that Anikin would stick out or discover somthing. He's just a prodigy pilot. But I think a lot of Anikins slide to the dark side was set up in the way he became a jedi. Qui-Gon was gonna break the rules to train Anikin, and Obi-Wan loopholed him into the order. Thus his behevior with Padme is just an example of how he learned to operate from his mentors. The prophecy was one that would bring balance to the force, which is somthing the Jedi don't want. But once he gets loopholed in they change the prophecy to destroy the sith because thats what they want.

 

[freebfrost]

There are two possible scenarios here. Plagus created Anakin, perhaps to take advantage of a misinterperted prophecy. Sideous kills him and takes over plotting over 20 years. OR It was Sideous all along. He could have impregnated Anakins mother, (hell he could have done it "normally" and simply whiped her memory with the force).

Why is there this assumption that Plagus or Sidious actually *knew* who they had created?

Perhaps this power involved just manipulating the Force and then having to discover where the Force-bred child was? And who better to do this than the Jedi?

 

[Particle_Man]

And if one wants to continue the "Conspiracy theory", didn't Count Dooku train Qui-Gon?

Anyhow, Darth Vader kills kids in three movies: Attack of the Clones (oh, honey, that's ok)
Revenge of the Sith, and A New Hope (at least I assume there were at least some kids on that planet that got blowed up real good).

 

[fett527]

And if one wants to continue the "Conspiracy theory", didn't Count Dooku train Qui-Gon?

Anyhow, Darth Vader kills kids in three movies: Attack of the Clones (oh, honey, that's ok)
Revenge of the Sith, and A New Hope (at least I assume there were at least some kids on that planet that got blowed up real good).

Vader didn't pull the trigger on Death Star, Tarkin did.