That’s why I said “basically just him” - don’t send a handful of jobbers to do the job of an entire battalion.
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There's a few lines in Attack of the Clones about how the Council's entire ability to sense the future is gone and they're afraid to tell anyone outside the group.Meanwhile, how Yoda couldn't sense Palpy's obviously ominous intent is beyond baffling.
There's a few lines in Attack of the Clones about how the Council's entire ability to sense the future is gone and they're afraid to tell anyone outside the group.
There's probably a pretty interesting interpretation of the Star Wars prequels and how the Jedi were able to entrench themselves in positions of power not because they were good, noble, or ethical, but simply because they basically had super precognition, and damned if that isn't the most useful power you could have in politics/anything. The minute they lost the ability to literally see what was coming, they not only physically fell apart, but realized they were never particularly "right", just continually unjustly rewarded for their privileged magical powers.
At a certain point you have to wonder if Palpatine is really good and manipulating people, or if everyone in the galaxy is a complete rube.
Signs point to the latter
There's nothing he won't do if it advances his plans.
How devious!broadcasting his return through Fortnite...
what a scumbagbroadcasting his return through Fortnite...
To Egarwaens point, one of the stories in A Certain Point of View is from Palpatines perspective, and is about how he has just absurdly powerful precognitive powers, so him not being a master manipulator so much as a guy who knows which way the road forks makes a lot more sense.
This also means it was pure dumb-luck that defeats him every time, not any skill or proficiency on any of the heroes’ part.
Ezra Bridger is the kid who just does walk up throws over and over again and somehow his opponents always think "Okay this time he's going to do something else."
I don’t like to rush to conclusions but I think this Palpatine guy might not have everyone’s best interests at heart
The thousands of Jedi were part of a highly visible, hierarchical organization that had been operating in the same way for thousands of years. Luke was a random 17 year old who was in the right place at the right time. He's not a Padawan, he's basically operating off a handful of Jedi cliff notes and adventure stories. He's strong in the force, but not following all of the weird Jedi rules. (Plus Palpatine barely existed when it was written, the ending makes sense for the movie's story beats, etc.)If Palps can see the future, why did he let a kid from the boonies blow up an entire Death Star? Like, y'all saying he can outsmart, out maneuver, and out-magic thousands of Jedi, but this padawan just completely befuddles him? I call shenanigans!