xhonzi said:

If the Dark Jedi/Sith are the bad guys of the Clone Wars/PT, then why does no one apparently care that Vader and Palpatine are two extremely prominent/well known leaders/executors of the Gov't.

You might make a case that very few people in the OT know that Emperor Palpatine is a (Dark) force user, but Vader?

Does anyone else here read Marvel Comics? Mild Spoilers for anyone who does not:

The Skrull Secret Invasion ends when "apparently on the mend, but still a rather bad guy" Normon Osborn gets a kill-shot on the right Skrull and sends them packing. He's lauded as the hero that did what all of the Marvel superheroes (Ironman, S.H.I.E.L.D., the X-Men, etc.) couldn't, and he's given the keys to the kingdom for a while. He abuses them from day one, and controls his PR very well... but eventually it all catches up with him.

Back to the PT. What if the Dark Jedi/Sith are the conquerors of the Clone Wars? What if they drive out the enemy horde, and then the Republic is willing to try things their way for a span?

That's a good question. Maybe once the Emperor is in power he can pretty much do what he wants, including having Vader do whatever. With the Emperor I think his disfigurement was Lucas's out on why the galaxy would follow such an evil looking dude. I thought that scene was retarded though. IMO, the politics of the galaxy seem totally different to me from PT to OT, although most people I think thought it was a good transition.

You raise good questions though, if you recall in SW, the Empire was really worried what would happen with the Senate until the Emperor did away with it, Vader also was very worried about how the Tantive IV thing would look to the rest of the galaxy, staging the whole distress signal thing. BTW, sorry if this was incoherent, very tired.