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| Topic | Why did palpatine want all those kids killed? |
| SoIidLegacy 11/30/20 5:30:28 PM #17: | Ilishe posted... Anakin/Vader killing innocent children is the single darkest moment in Star Wars. Basically this. The audience had to have it spelled out for them that Palpatine/Vader/the Dark Side were in fact the bad guys. I get the feeling this 'spelling it out for the audience' is a thing that grows increasingly more obvious as time passes, like how in more recent Star Wars things like The Old Republic the Empire is like this human nationalist group who make no secret of how racist they are to non-humans. Although the Imperials in the OT all seemed to be human, I don't recall any occasion where anything racist was uttered to a non-human sentient, yet even as a kid I understood that the Imperials were supposed to be the bad guys. --- The secrets of the ancient world have been unearthed. The shackles of false histories destroyed. Together we stand as the authors of destiny. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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