Star Wars

The Jedi Council In Canon: *Start planning treason against Palpatine the minute he makes it clear he won't stop the war and try for peace even after Dooku is dead.*

The Jedi Council In Canon: *Literally are on their way to arrest Palpatine for corruption before they ever even discover he's a Sith.*

The Jedi Council In Canon: *Immediately believe Anakin when he tells them that Palpatine is a Sith, despite recent difficulty between Anakin and the Council.*

I’m a Palpatine fan. Not because I think he’s "misunderstood" or because the Jedi deserved what happened, but because he is unapologetically, deliberately evil—and he is terrifyingly good at it. I’m tired of people attributing his wins to everyone except him. It’s time we stop nerfing Darth Sidious just to vilify the Jedi.

The "Anakin Fell Because of the Jedi" Let’s be clear: The Jedi didn’t push Anakin away. Palpatine pulled him. He didn't just wait for the Jedi to mess up; he identified a traumatized kid and spent fourteen years grooming him. He inserted himself as the only "affirming" authority figure in Anakin’s life, slowly warping his worldview until he reached a breaking point. Then, Palpatine stepped in and offered him exactly what he wanted to hear. If the Jedi had somehow magically done everything perfectly to counteract a Sith Master's influence, would Anakin have stayed in the Light? Yeah, probably. But that doesn’t change the fact that Palpatine did it. Just because the Jedi didn't manage to counter everything perfectly—when they didn't even know they had an opponent until the final hour—doesn't mean they deserve the credit for Palpatine's hard work. Stop crediting the Jedi for Anakin’s fall; that’s Palpatine’s masterpiece.

The Propaganda Machine People act like the Jedi just stumbled into being hated through "arrogance." No. Palpatine made them hated. He orchestrated a galactic war where he controlled both sides, then maneuvered the Jedi into military roles that fundamentally broke their image as neutral peacekeepers. He allowed the public to get used to seeing them as armed generals rather than spiritual guardians. That wasn't an accidental optics shift; it was a masterpiece PR assassination.

The "If They Just Didn't Fight" Fallacy I hear this all the time: "If the Jedi hadn't fought in the Clone Wars, they wouldn't have died! Clearly, the Jedi fell because they had lost their way as peacekeepers." …do you seriously think Palpatine wouldn't have found a way to turn that situation to his advantage? If the Jedi had refused to fight, Palpatine wouldn't have just packed up and gone home. He would have weaponized their neutrality. Imagine the Holonet headlines: "Jedi Elitists Refuse to Defend Republic Against Former Member Count Dooku." He would have branded them as cowards, conspirators, or traitors who abandoned the galaxy in its darkest hour. The Clone Wars would have still happened, except the Jedi would be hunted by both the Separists and the Republic. The Purge would still have happened anyway; only the "why"(and "how") would have changed.

'He won because everyone played exactly like his script-' Things didn't go 100% to palpatine's plans in the prequels, he just was really good at adapting Naboo: The Trade Federation fumbled the occupation. Palpatine didn't panic; he still used it to seize the Chancellorship. Maul: His apprentice got cut in half. Palpatine just traded up for Dooku to fuel the Separatist movement. Mustafar: Anakin was supposed to be the perfect specimen, not a mutilated man in a life-support suit. Palpatine simply recalibrated and turned the "broken" remains into Vader.

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in the movies he was pathetic, and it was one of the most intresting choices lucas made with the character. in tcw he just constantly acts aggresive and dominant, even though in the pt the only time he displayed that kind of behavior was mustafar,where he was at his MOST unhinged. tcw just acts as if anakin had 100 mini mustafars leading up to the big one, and there's no indication of that in the movies at all. his violent,controlling behavior was a shock to both obi wan and padmé, why would it be if he had just behaved as a light version of that for three years?

this quote is what sums it up best for me. it seems to me as if the writers tought that for anakin to show his darkness (which is very present in the movies too) he had to be just plain angry,instead of "melodramatic" or "whiny",traits that people wrongfully associate with,you guessed it,women.

Yeah really 😂😅

while pregnant, she watched everything that she built fall apart right before her in mere days. Everything she worked so hard for was in vain.

on top of that, the love of her life was the cause of it and he even did it in the name of her.

the tragedy of Padmé Amidala is one of the most heartbreaking ever.

anidala loved each other, knew each other, and respected each other. their love was pure, mythic and all encompassing.

their doomed end - anakin selling his soul to save his wife because he loves her so much and feels like he has no other choice (it was the incorrect choice) and it ultimately failing - simply does not hit if the story does not fall from the high of 'this romance you were rooting for ended tragically'.

if you say that 'lol they would've divorced anyway', then you are simply not getting why it is so tragic.

it is so tragic because in another life, they could have been so happy.

but their happiness was stolen by the empire, by palpatine.

it's a general arc to tragic romances: the love was there.

it ended badly, but my god, was the love there for anidala.

taking it away undercuts a key part of the tragedy of the prequel trilogy. it's boring, it's uninteresting.

please leave your trash unoriginal opinions about anidala at the door.

or, at the very least, stay out of our lane.

anidala is a tragic romance.

they deserved better.

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

Cal and Merrin won my heart.