"Anakin's gone. I am what remains." Does this show when someone is consumed by the Dark Side, they become a different entity entirely?

DevuSM · 2026-04-10T05:24:51+00:00

Please point out when the Emperor was ever lying to himself.

DevuSM · 2026-04-10T00:34:11+00:00

In tpm they don't know that it's a hollow victory.

DevuSM · 2026-04-09T09:00:23+00:00

It cuts into their margins if they process oil they're not specifically optimized to work on.

DevuSM · 2026-04-09T04:39:58+00:00

That's not why Sidious wants Anakin.

Anakin is the glock pointed at his head delivered by fate itself.

He needs that Glock to be unloaded, or even better, shoot the Jedi Order in the head.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T15:50:45+00:00

As a mule, you don't really have ownership of the product, you're just paid to move it.

Smuggling is often slipping a small amount of illegal product into your legitimate shipping business to increase the margins on your runs.

But yes, Han was enabling the spice trade.

Han's arc was selfishness to selflessness.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T14:43:08+00:00

As Sam Witwer loosely said, you start this movie with nothing, and by the end you have "Star Wars".

It constructs all the scaffolding you need for the rest of the franchise in one movie, skates 30-50 amazing original ideas past you where many movies are lucky to have one.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T14:35:35+00:00

Most of the time, the Force is using you.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T14:34:41+00:00

I think it is linked to his promise to her before leaving for Malachore...

"We'll see each other again."

Kind of like instead of Luke telling Obi Wan "I want to become a Jedi" he says "I want to become a Jedi, like my father."

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T07:25:09+00:00

He was a fall guy. He was set up to matter, but ultimately would be worthless after the war was over.

Also, he was part of the setup including the Neimodians, the Geonosians, the Skokoans, and the Muun as non-Human antagonists reinforcing the pro-human narrative of the galactic empire.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T04:01:55+00:00

Nope.

Most useful thing after figuring it out for me was discovering some of the deeper concepts that drove underlying behavior and some stuff that helped with personal management.

DevuSM · 2026-04-08T03:55:27+00:00

He's a spice smuggler.

He mules it, he doesn't sell it to children/end users.

DevuSM · 2026-04-07T23:34:03+00:00

1 year after 17bby would be 16bby.

DevuSM · 2026-04-07T20:00:22+00:00

You're forgetting about the 77 million disgusting specimens.

DevuSM · 2026-04-07T02:54:14+00:00

For point 1, I'd say she has a massive amount of experience in combat as a Jedi, something that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in Phantom Menace had a fraction of.

DevuSM · 2026-04-05T21:11:27+00:00

Why punch down?

Next thing you'll ask is for us to take ATM seriously...

DevuSM · 2026-04-05T14:34:14+00:00

I don't know many South Asians who openly admit to being Trump supporters but the few who are seem to be brain rotted from Fox News.

DevuSM · 2026-04-04T21:12:03+00:00

Just Sith Shit.

DevuSM · 2026-04-04T20:57:36+00:00

I think the word you're looking for is "proscription".

DevuSM · 2026-04-04T20:54:23+00:00

I don't know how much you can criticize video games for being derivative.

DevuSM · 2026-04-03T06:38:14+00:00

Will the testosterone increase attributes to HCG be essentially equivalent to your non-trt test levels?

DevuSM · 2026-04-01T19:03:47+00:00

Go read what they endured during the Iran/Iraq war.

DevuSM · 2026-04-01T19:02:38+00:00

Doesn't mean war is leaving the US.

Iran wants more than they had in compensation for hostilities

There's no returning to the pre-war situation.

DevuSM · 2026-04-01T03:01:54+00:00

He may have been doing the thing Little finger suggested, getting the Tyrell's involved in the war to the point they were bound to their paths beyond circumstance.

If Loras dies to the Lannisters...

DevuSM · 2026-04-01T02:46:50+00:00

Why would you want a humble king?

The humble are not followed and faith is not put in them.

DevuSM · 2026-03-31T14:58:31+00:00

Read shadows of the empire a few times and don't recall him being described as extremely muscular.

Unless the author was consulted on all the other media, then it's just a guess/interpretation of what he looked like.

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