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Palpatine was the only character in the prequels who actually seemed to have any goals or clear motivation for his actions. He was a hokey character, sure—but he was the only hokey character who seemed capable of expressing interest in anything he was doing.
“Goddamn it’s good to be evil!”
Better to ham it up than to bore the audience.
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I NEED to see this.
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She’s got reason to be pissed. Qui Gon pretty much left her to die in slavery.
In other WEIRD PREQUEL THEORY news I’ve always liked the one where Qui Gon is Anakin’s father and he just sort of a certain point of viewed his way around it.
Jedis are assholes.
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Yeah, I think there were a few that were ok, but I think the whole group needed some sort of oversight or an ombudsman.
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Wasn’t that sort of Qui Gon’s deal?
And there he was hanging out in the galactic equivalent of New Jersey, mind wiping trafficked women to avoid child support.
I meant for real, but wow.
But I think I have my real answer: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1116920636952199168
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I think it’s been pretty cannon in every film that a Jedi with a light saber can deflect blasters?
Plus, we don’t know the specifics of that scene. Maybe she’s just hitching a friendly ride.
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Having seen him with the Royal Shakespare Company, I’ll have to disagree.
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Well, his motivations were purely driven by plot, not character, so there was no suspense and the Jedi looked like a bunch of idiots in the prequels. I’m not saying he tanked the prequels, because they are all fucked up on so many levels, but his ham-fisted attempts at subtlety did rather preclude the idea that it would take a master of, say, “inSidious” (BONK! Right on the head thanks) duplicity and manipulation to fool every living Jedi into thinking the good senator was not behind it all and messing with Anakin in all his special alone time.
But just in ROTJ I feel he was so awful “Your faith in your FRIENDS is Yours!!” mahahaha, I much preferred the original spooky emperor from the original release, even though now I know that it was a montage of a woman’s face and an ape’s eyes or something it was cooler than the hand-wringing Smurf villain of a Palpatine we got from there on.
Just my two cents, your mileage may vary. May the Force be with you all!
Put it this way, he sure as heck ain’t no Alec Guinness or Peter Cushing. I’m sure he’s brilliant live on stage given a good script, but on-camera he’s mostly done TV and I hated him in SW. If I ever watch the prequels again, and I own the DVDs, it sure won’t be to watch Ian M. over-act, that’s not part of the charm. The original cast made it work by not over-acting it.
no offense, but you aaaaaaaall are mental. 
In the book Thrawn: alliances, there’s an alternate origin for the term “Skywalker”.
In the book, Thrawn (a member of the Chiss species from the fabled Unknown regions) tells Darth Vader about how force sensitivity is extremely rare in his species. Very rarely a girl is born who can touch the force. And her only talent is that of foresight. It grows weaker as she ages as well, no matter how they try to train her.
And in the unknown regions, there are few hyperlanes (essential to faster than light travel), and many obstacles for a superlumial ship. A helmsman with the gift of force foresight is the only way to get a ship to travel through the unknown regions. So the Chiss, being very intelligent took advantage of this precious resource, and train all their force-sensitive children to helm their long-range ships. The rank they’re given translates to “Sky Walker”
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I try to make the best of each movie that I see, but glaring disregard for - or ignorance of - simple science in films like TFA or the Star Trek reboot really ruin the escapist experience and awaken my inner nerd.
Suspension of disbelief is not enough. For Abrams’ films my disbelief requires heavy sedation.
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I’m going to be so sad to have read this theory, if it turns out to be true. Objectively terrible movie ideas go down better if they came as a surprise.
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I really enjoyed the Last Jedi; so I’m actually a bit worried about this film. JJ Abrams’ “The Force Awakens” didn’t grab me the same way that the Last Jedi did. I want to be surprised by the outcome of a film, rather than being given a diet of fan service. Still, fingers-crossed…
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In Abrams’ defense, TFA was the movie where Disney had to show everyone that they get why people liked the old SW movies, to bring everyone on board. TLJ built on that, and was definitely much more ambitious movie in every way.
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