Really the issue here is the reverse - the AUDIENCE is much less familiar with the name "Palpatine" based on the onscreen content of the movies than the characters logically should be The name isn't spoken at all in the OT, because Lucas irl hadn't settled on the details
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
IIRC it's in the novelization of the original SW, the one he actually wrote, which I had as a kid. It's in a short prologue page that sets the stage (also indicates he was a weak politician influenced by corrupt advisors, so definitely before he hashed the mastermind stuff out)
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @arthur_affect and
Yeah was gonna say I grew up in the 80s and 90s knowing the Emperor's name was Palpatine long before the prequels but that was because I was an ubernerd
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Replying to @roryleahy @arthur_affect and
I don't remember there being anything about the EMPEROR being a Sith Lord until the prequel movies though, even once I knew that Vader was. There was no rule of two pre-1999. The emperor was an evil force user who corrupted Vader; Vader was the Sith lord
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @roryleahy and
The Rule Of Two is still the absolutely stupidest thing and I hate it more than I hate any other piece of SW "canon." Yes, including midichlorians.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @loudpenitent and
It seems really risky for an order dedicated to having the student kill the master One backfire that kills both and oops, no more Sith
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @della_morte_ and
AN ENTIRE GALAXY OF TRILLIONS AND YOU HAVE A "TRADITION" OF TWO. FUCKING. PEOPLE! it's a narrative dead end
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Sarcasmorator and
I don’t think so. I don’t think having tons of dark Jedi wandering the galaxy makes the setting more interesting. Having them be incredibly rare and frightening is more compelling imo.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @Sarcasmorator and
Ehh. I guess it's a cultural bias thing. I usually prefer cultures of X to singular monstrous practitioners
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Okay but the "All the Sith" hivemind retcon in TRoS really *only* works with the Rule of Two, otherwise the concept just falls apart
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