#readingsw22

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Imagine going to private school with Palpatine and he makes your life a living hell for however long before being moved somewhere else. Years go by and you almost forget about him….until you turn on the holonet one day and find out he’s been appointed Senator?? Would that be fucked up or what?

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OKAY E K JOHNSTON WE GET IT HE’S EVIL

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Palpatine in this book.....has a sculpture in his office that he unleashes force lightning on when he gets angry. He keeps the sculpture specifically for this reason. It’s his special stress release sculpture. I shit you not.

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“Jatz” music 🙄 come on Luceno call it by it’s real name.

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Lord Plagueis’ toughest mission in this book: having to navigate a university campus with a shitty paper map. 

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10 years on and I’m still trying to process that scene where Palpatine flirted with the hostess…

The steak, “are you one of those men with a friend in every space port?”, “I’m always eager to make friends”, when she jokes about him being a Jedi, when she touches his chin, the fact that Kinman Doriana is just sitting there, “getting to know the galaxy’s women, he means”, “trails of conquests.” I’ve never been the same since.

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I don’t think for a second that JJ Abrams or Chris Terrio read Darth Plagueis. But still, an interesting little parallel.

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Plagueis: Hey uh, you know Rugess Nome the starship designer? He’s dead.

Larsh Hill: What?! How? Where?

Plagueis: Doesn’t matter. They’ll never find his body. Good news is we’ll inherit his estate.

Larsh: How do you know they’ll never find his body?

Plagueis: ………………so there’s this planet called bal’demnic

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Darth Tenebrous being like “I’m glad I’m dying this way instead of being killed by my apprentice like all Sith masters are- hey wait a damn minute 🤬” is so funny

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The influence Naboo and Coruscant have on Palpatine’s taste for the finer things 👌

[From Masters by Tessa Gratton in Stories of Jedi and Sith]

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anakin and padme in the back of a shitty rented speeder somewhere in the coruscant underworld

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“Together we are the newborn stars that complete the Sith constellation” vs Sidious seeing “an ascending constellation of stars, one of power and consequence new to the sky” after killing Plagueis

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Honestly the 2000s up until 2012 was the golden era of Palpatine’s characterisation. Feels like everything official that’s come out since has been lacking something, even in the few good things we’ve gotten.

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mike chen briefly mentions a crime family on coruscant that owns illegal racetracks

me: underworld? is this a nod to the underworld scripts? 1313? heartless gangster woman? mr chen? sir??

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not anakin and padme roasting obi-wan’s jedi mullet in brotherhood 💀

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my copy of brotherhood has arrived 😈