xhonzi said:
But still, I think people that are vehemently against Emperor clones maybe misunderstand that this fictional universe includes both Cloning and Dark Magic. You can argue with the execution, but it seems odd to argue that it should be impossible in the universe.
I myself don't mind bringing the Emperor back through cloning. Fact is I think Veitch did a great job with Palpatine's characterization; he really built upon the Palpatine from ROTJ.
Dark Empire fails for me, though, in it's depiction of Luke's fall to the dark side. Veitch tells us that Luke went through Palpatine's dark side tomes and experimented with dark powers, but he never shows us this happening; it's just glossed over. And I never really got the feeling that Luke even fell to the dark side in the story. It's more like Luke because a sissy and went along with Palpatine out of sheer cowardice.