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Did Da Vinci Smell?

Facts change over time of course. :)

However...

There's a comic book miniseries all about Vader hunting the remaining Jedi across the Galaxy after after order 66 was given, and a few had slipped through the cracks.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17372081-star-wars

In the new cartoon, a minor Sith working for the Emperor turned the skeleton of a dead Jedi into a force-radio that transmitted a frightened distress call to any nearby Jedi who would quickly die if they responded to said distress call.

Palpatine knew who the Jedi were because he controlled the war and deployed them were he sought fit, with order 66 the dark lord killed the Jedi he could with efficiency, counted the bodies and and made a list. He knew who was missing because like Santa he checked his list twice, and then did something about it.

This is a question of religious freedom.

The Jedi would not tolerate a Sith, and he would not tolerate the Jedi.

No quarter would be given.

I do wonder what would have happened if Palpatine volunteered that he was Sith without admitting that he was Sideous or that he had done anything wrong, evil, or criminal?

Which actually might have been what happened?

Did he say "Yoohoo, I'm 5 minutes from killing everyone?"

Nope.

He revealed himself voluntarily.

And they tried to arrest him.

Heads rolled.

He was the elected Chancellor, they didn't have the legal right to do jack shit.

Unless its republican law that all Sith must die.

So everything he did was self-defence?
 
What's it all come down to, really? Old people suck, they're in the way and are too out of touch and senile to run things. Teens, on the other hand are fabulous, with their Clarity of Mind to run an entire planet in a way that's Liberal, Peaceful and So Cool ... But then, there's Annie, who's just sitting around on his bum, in Coruscant. As a representative of an oppressed segment of the Republic, he should've had much more to say and do, besides fall for Padme. Though he wasn't all that much younger than The Queen, herself, he was a single digit. And kiddies just aren't cool, in any Universe, I suppose. So, why have a whole movie about him? Personally, I find it a great relief when these movies find themselves back in the Senate Chambers - get in some of that much-needed Tall Talk.
 
Can the force imitate moisture when used to jostle?

One of his hands was... Lord Vader had two metal hands and possibly no junk.

Old Ben is lucky all the guy he castrated did to him in return was make him one with the force.
 
All his desires for pleasure became about power because he was turned over to the dark side. The same goes for the Emperor, that's why you can't imagine him having any love companions (though I'm sure the emperor/anakin fiction writes itself).
 
Power?

General Skywalker wanted a resurrection spell because he knew Padme would die in child birth, and then he wanted to remove Obiwan's head from his shoulders because beardo was sticking it to his wife.

Above seems logical.

It's even.

1. You #### my wife and you're a dead man.

2. I don't believe my wife deserves to stay dead.

Nothing that wouldn't happen in the real world.

so...

Why didn't Anikan finish off Young Ben?

And why didn't he... Wait? Did Vader bring Padme back from the dead?

Why isn't there a novel about that? Is there a novel about that?

But yes, yes... Anikan goes from reasonable and understandable behaviour (above) to gutting a room full of four year olds for no quantifiable reason.

Why didn't he bring the younglings back?

Or his mother? (I assume the body has to be fresh? Maybe the force soul could be stuck in any one?)

Was Palpatine lying?

Was resurrection never on the table?

That makes their service contract invalid.

No resurrection spell, no unquestioning loyalty surely?

Vader was the only person of note who survived the destruction of the First Death Star?

Would Zombie Amadalla have been on the Death Star in A New Hope?

I'm assuming Darth Vader kept her in a shipping crate that followed him around the galaxy.

Did Luke kill his mother (twice.)?

...

There was a little Star Wars on the new episode of Babylon.

Finn: "Can't prove it of course because you learnt the ways of the Dark Side from the master, Hewit Peany.

Lizz: Delusions of Jedi? Please don't be that guy."
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40 seconds later after Finn is gone. Lizz is talking about how to destroy Finn to her second.

Lizz: "No half measures. If we get the shot, we blow up the Deathstar, and then we build anew Deathstar, but an open friendly accountable Deathstar, a perspex Deathstar."
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What do you mean that you're not watching Babylon?
 
I'm not watching Babylon.

Vader did not get his hands on Padme's body and he was too busy at that stage trying to claw back his own body into kinda working.
 
You don't have to watch Babylon.

Your time is valuable.

We're still good.

I do not think any less of you.

...

The timeline on rebuilding Vader?

In my head it seemed like 5 minutes later.

But in all likeliness unless there was obvious evidence to contrary, Vader had been in an induced coma for a year while Imperial surgeons were rebuilding him and stitching technological reacharounds into his burnt husk.
 
Bablyon 4 is a fricking princess.

Couldn't deal with it, so she ran away to hide in the toilets of history and lock the door.

There was a great line in the second Babylon pilot Lizz said for no reason walking down a corridor without making eye contact with anyone "Hey Jim, there's sperm on your collar."
 
SPECTRE if you watch The Legend of the Rangers and think about how likely it would be that Babylon 4 would have turned out just like that I promise you will feel better.
 
Maybe the EU says something different (but it doesn't matter anyway because the EU has been decanonized :p) but Palpatine never says anything about resurrection. He implies Anakin could stop people from dying. Anakin winds up doing the exact opposite of stopping people from dying. Complete fumble on Ani's part, but he rationalizes it into buyer's remorse.
 
It's a horrible movie I find painful to watch, but you are having me second guess my interpretation of the evidence. :)

PALPATINE: (continuing) Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis "the wise"?

ANAKIN: No.

PALPATINE: I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life ... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.

ANAKIN: He could actually save people from death?

PALPATINE: The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

ANAKIN: What happened to him?

PALPATINE: He became so powerful . . . the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. (smiles) Plagueis never saw it coming. It's ironic he could save others from death, but not himself.

ANAKIN: Is it possible to learn this power?

PALPATINE: Not from a Jedi.
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Hmmm.

I can see how he is not talking about resurrection, but if he's being flowery instead of direct, Palpatine could still be talking about resurrection, or maybe not?

Tricking Midiclorians into creating life within the lifeless?

Of inoculating life with excess life so that death cannot get a grip?

Hmmm.

Is he describing death as person that you can fight to reclaim the dying or dead from, or a place you can go to to snatch the dead from and bring them back to the land of the living?
 
I defend the PT like a rabid fanperson but I leave out that I find ROTS utterly unwatchable. I have only watched it twice, which is like me saying I have only eaten toast twice. WEIRD and unthinkable. But it's awful and boring.
 
Funny. I find AOTC the most painful to watch. Yet I watch all of them. Repeatedly. Because I'm apparently the sort of person who will subject themselves to that kind of thing.
 
The Rifftrax (Science Fiction Theatre 3000.) people have done all 6 main Star Wars movies and the Christmas Special.

It really helps get through the worst of it.

So much self loathing,
 
I've noticed a lot of people have one PT they either hate or just can't stomach.

I loved AOTC. Coruscant, MY FAVORITE CITY in the world. Kamino, gorgeous. "Peck your things" I still say that in everyday life. It was a very exciting movie to me.
 
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