Voss Caltrez said:
Yeah, but wouldn’t it make more sense to taunt someone without saying admitting exactly what you want them to do? I mean, Luke’s not a child.
Sure but putting the thought in his mind can also be effective; maybe not as much but still.
It would have made more sense if he tried to convince Luke that the Empire was right in it’s actions, and that the dark side of the Force was the only way to maintain order among the chaos that is the universe. I know I’m asking a lot of what is essentially a kids fantasy film, but the script, dialogue, and acting was so well done in The Empire Strikes Back, and the story seemed to be more mature than A New Hope, that I would have expected (in hindsight of course) that ROTJ would continue that upward direction.
No argument here brother. I have said this at least a couple of times on this forum. Funny thing is one of the only great scenes in the PT is the Opera House scene where Anakin and Palpatine discuss the philosophical differences between the Jedi and the Sith.
But he didn’t come across as the ultimate form of evil. He the ultimate cliche of Saturday Morning Cartoon villainy.
I don’t think a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain is going to torture his apprentice’s son via electrocution in front of him. That far exceeds any Saturday Morning Cartoon villain…
And you don’t need to design a testicle monster with laser beam eyes to be visually interesting.
Nor do you have to be extremely ugly or tall. I mean him being older Bernie Sanders and John Mccain combined is visually interesting enough for me.
It seems like Anakin and the Emperor have different reasons. Anakin wants power so he could stop people, like his mother, from being killed. He grew up in an unfair world where people could be bought and sold as slaves. He feared that his wife would die like his mother, so he wanted more power fro the Force to prevent it from happening.
Vader, pre-prequel trilogy, seemed to just want order, and later, he wanted to rule with his reunited son.
Yeah but in ROTS he tells Padme that he can overthrow the Chancellor and they can rule the Galaxy together. Molding the Galaxy in their own vision.
The Emperor in the prequels though, just seems to want “unlimited powaaaaaaa.”
That isn’t an issue. He’s the reigning Dark Lord of The Sith. The Sith want to conquer thus Palpatine wants to as well. There’s no reason to give him a rich backstory that which gives him numerous motives as to why he would want to rule. Darth Sidious is not like Darth Vader or Kylo Ren who are 3 dimensional characters so there’s really no reason to elaborate more beyond the “normal” reasons one would want to rule the Galaxy.