Him using the name "Darth Sidious" actually has pretty big plot implications - back in the prequels the whole deal was the Jedi knew Darth Sidious was the name of the Separatists' mysterious backer and Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Darth Maul's mentor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
For Luke to casually namedrop "Sidious" to mean "Palpatine" means that whole conspiracy - where Palpatine actually started the war he got all the credit for saving the Republic from - is now public historical knowledge
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Curious what the in-universe explanation for that would be. Yoda, Bail, or Obi-wan write it up and store it in R2's memory banks or what?
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Replying to @mattsaler @della_morte_ and
My headcanon is Luke himself did the digging, or at least was the first one to put together the pieces that other people did the digging for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Ah yeah—I'd like some treatment of Luke pouring over some Imperial records Gandalf-style in Coruscant, following up leads he found in notes left behind by the original three Rebel conspirators.
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Replying to @mattsaler @della_morte_ and
I don't actually think TRoS contradicts TLJ that hard by depicting Luke as having been a busy galaxytrotting archeologist before his long exile I always headcanoned that *before* Luke fell into despair and gave it all up there was a phase where he really, really tried
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
Feverishly digging up every scrap of lore he could about the old Jedi and Sith, to try to find some kind of guidance, some explanation for how destiny works and why people fall to the Dark Side
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
At one point really believing Ben's fall was all due to Palpatine's machinations and thinking he could somehow fix it if he just dug up the very last bits of Palpatine's legacy and neutralize them (The real failing of TRoS was portraying this mad obsession as correct and valid)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
My headcanon is he took it really really hard when he found out that, as he puts it, at the very height of their power and wisdom the Old Jedi fucked up with Anakin even worse than he did with Ben and they really did bring it all on themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
And he went to Ahch-To looking for some kind of better answer, from the OLD Old Jedi, hoping the original Sacred Texts from thousands of years ago before corruption set in could give him some insight
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And halfway through translating the old books her realizes they're just saying the same shit he's been studying his whole life and the only answer they have to the problem of evil is "shit happens" and it was ridiculous to imagine reading a book could somehow fix everything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
Which is when he has his breakdown, throws his X-Wing into the ocean, stops showering, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
I love this whole reading and it just makes me like the sequels even more. The idea that evil is cyclical and never fully defeated is so powerful to me right now because it’s so demonstrably true. Accepting that is so hard but so necessary. You pass on the fight.
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