I do think that the narrative workings that had to happen to make room for Palpatine might have buried the movie because none of it is interesting but when McDiarmid is onscreen, I mean, he's real good at doing the thing he does.
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Replying to @OneTruePoster @BootlegGirl and
He is. He is very good at being a villain. But man, I just can't get over like a whole navy of ships fully crewed just showing up out of nowhere.
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Replying to @ChrisNelson64 @BootlegGirl and
yeah that's all pretty bad. Understand, I literally only mean when he is onscreen and absolutely none of the context. Seeing him go all Universal Monster while connected to some kind of HR Giger contraption is more raw
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Replying to @OneTruePoster @ChrisNelson64 and
I liked the interview with McDiarmid saying how surprised he was to get the call and that he did not and still does not understand how Palpatine is supposed to be alive but just rolled with it and went as hard as he could
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OneTruePoster and
He always said the fun part of playing Palpatine was getting to be pure evil without any nuance or shades of gray and TRoS somehow escalates this characterization beyond where it was before
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ChrisNelson64 and
I love the part where he's just like "oh would you look at that a dyad I suppose I don't have to die after all look all my Sith followers at his extremely unlikely and timel coincidence aren't I lucky"
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Replying to @OneTruePoster @arthur_affect and
I was kind of disappointed by the Sith ritual at first bc Palps never struck me as a 100% true believer who'd actively try to pass on power, I always assumed he had body-switchin shenanigans in mind, so him going to absurd elaborate lengths to preserve his body/consciouness scans
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Replying to @OneTruePoster @arthur_affect and
It was *story group sponsored very intentional brand building canon* until RoS that Palpatine was so against anyone succeeding him that he was the reason the Empire lost at Jaaku and that he would destroy the Galaxy along with himself if he could But hey, king JJ
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
The impression I got is that Palpatine had various contingencies that would allow the Sith ritual to happen if necessary but he was really really hoping to find a way to avoid this. Like he really could have let Kylo kill him and All the Sith would have a happy new home
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Replying to @OneTruePoster @BootlegGirl and
It seems that the plan required Kylo to kill Rey first before killing Palpatine for unclear reasons
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You might think that it makes more sense that he was sending Kylo away to be killed by Rey because Rey is the one he really wanted because of the bloodline thing Or that it was all a stalling tactic to get both halves of the dyad alive in front of him to be drained
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OneTruePoster and
Unfortunately, there is a scene specifically foreclosing either of these possibilities JJ saw fit to give us a scene from Palpatine's POV explicitly confirming to the audience that he's really mad Leia saved Rey's life by staying Kylo's hand and this totally derailed his plans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OneTruePoster and
Which leads pretty inexorably to the reasonable-i-suppose conclusion that Palpatine has a stable gender identity and doesn't want it fcked with
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