Sheev Palpatine

Question 20.

In which of the Star Wars films does Supreme Chancellor Palpatine become the evil emperor when Mace Windu deflects his force lightning back at him? Star Wars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith.

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So this was between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

When Luke finds a yellow lightsaber and Darth Vader is on the run from Palpatine because he knows that Luke's his son and he's trying to do a coup against... palpatine or whatever but long story short at the same time all of this is happening and dr afra and all these books there's this thing called the scourge which is like this sentient computer virus that was mixed with sith tech that ends up being real hungry It has a hunger to infect as many robots as it can.

So originally it starts off in just one robot and jumps into like all these robots on a Star Destroyer, but it doesn't want to stop there.

It eventually figures out that it can't be satisfied.

You think Tam is sort of an allegory for poor Republicans in the US?

I think she's an allegory for people who would sit there and chant, "Drain the swamp." A- and similar to what Palpatine was saying in, uh, I believe it was The Phantom Menace, when they get rid of Chancellor Valorum, and he's snidely saying to Padmé, "Enter the bureaucrat, a creature of corruption," and how, like, this takes away all the power.

So he is always pushing this message of how h- him and the modern conservative right wing everywhere around the globe preaches this message of fundamentally there is disorder, and we will bring order to it, and that that is by itself a good thing.

That's what Agent Tierny says to Tam.

But, but, uh, uh- I get it.

Somehow Palpatine has returned.

Uh, uh, although I do f- I was about to say some- there's nothing in the sequels that's so obnoxiously embarrassing like Jar Jar or like the Asian alien, uh-

Oh, you're talking about Nute Gunray, my, my dog, my bro.

Yeah

... 'cause, uh, you know, is it Snoke? In the beginning, Snoke is the big spooky hologram.

He's the Palpatine kind of, uh, uh, uh, equal parallel.

Uh, we have, uh, Hux, uh, played, uh, great by Domhnall Gleeson-

Do you-

... is like the Palpatine of it all.

Yeah.

He made a clone, the clone was weak.

...

the Skywalkers and Palpatine.

Like, there's more to that.

It's, ah.

Do not blame her

... that's exactly what Palpatine did, was like, "Let's put them in a forever war.

That way, you know-

[laughs]

it.

Because a lot of people had suggested that he looked like Emperor Palpatine, if I'm not mistaken.

He's

dead, bro.