The Sith Are Lonely 

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During the time I hosted a old republic campaign, I had a Sith player who was named Darth Imperius. Unlike alot of my other sith players, he was eager to take on an apprentice, which he did by taking on two Sith students. When asked why, he said “it would be grand, to see students take on my knowledge, and strive to be greater than me. Power is excellent, but it doesn’t nourish all of the soul.”

''Would at least one of you join the dark side? Please, I'm so lonely.'' - Emperor Palpatine.

That's why there's only ever been one "Good Sith" Darth Vectivus. He had a strict code of honor and principals to balance his dark powers. And when he died he wasn't alone, he had colleges and friends and probably a family. He was probably like Uncle Scrooge from Duck Tales, shrewd, manipulative and tactful, but he never crossed the line of being evil and cruel.

Christopher Lee did an interview in the wake of his role in star wars. One quote from him sticks out to me: When you're at the top of the ladder, there's only one way to go. Edit: spelling errors.

The whole apprentice thing never really plays out as the long term friendship that it seems like it should.

Allen: So the other day I was taking apart my microwave, trying to turn it into a particle accelerator because I have dolphin ghosts in my walls... Me: [nods] As one does, carry on.

Doesn’t that loneliness and other negative emotions give them Dark Power.

I remember when reading a Star Wars Infinities book years ago, Vader was tasked with hunting down a Jedi known as the Dark Woman. He came to the garden where she tended plants and animals, even trying to preserve a flower that was designated the last of its kind. Vader was amazed by the beauty of the place, and even sought to gently touch the flower's petals. But when they exchanged their view on philosophy, Vader disagreed with preservation and instead believed the weak were meant to be replaced by the strong. Though it was rare, Vader also displayed attributes that made him more easily liked amongst the Imperial military than elsewhere. From Legends continuity where he had devoted officers like Erv Lekauf to clone troopers like Appo, to even an entire alien species called the Noghri who devoted themselves to Vader and then devoted themselves to Leia after recognizing her as his daughter. Vader was always leading the way into battle; something the stormtroopers respected far more than the officers who ordered them into battle while high up in a Star Destroyer.

Snacks are a lie, there is only hunger. Through hunger, I gain fear. Through fear, I gain anxiety. Through anxiety my chains are forged. The Dark Side of the Force shall imprison me.

The Sith code states that their ultimate goal should be to cut their chains and be free. The great trap of the rest of their Orders philosophy is that they seem to fall for the idea that freedom is being on the top of the ladder, instead of being able to step off of the ladder and stand apart from it entirely.

The Sith try to substitute basic human needs like love and friendship with power and strength but that's not something any living thing can live off of. The Sith by their very nature are doomed to be forever alone.

Yes, the Dark Side DOES have cookies, but they're oatmeal raisin.

The Sith Purebloods had it right. Imagine, a species with a natural affinity for the Dark Side but still have a functional social order with clearly defined roles and duties. Look to King Adas for inspiration. He united Korriban and died for the love of it against the Rakatan.

That makes sense. The Jedi can't let their emotions get to them, so they probably turned Sith to force themselves out of those emotional shackles so they can be with their loved ones

I can think of no better example of what a Banite Sith should strive to be than, ironically, a Sith that died thousands of years before Darth Bane was born. Darth Malgus, a servant of the Sith Empire and follower of Darth Vitiate and the Dark Council. An accomplished general in war and a strategic master who achieved something few other Sith would ever achieve in the history of the Galaxy, taking Coruscant by hostile siege. If any of you have watched the Star Wars: The Old Republic CGI cinematic trailers, he's the guy that Satele Shan fights on Alderaan, the guy that the badass Republic Trooper half blows up with a grenade, and most critically he's the guy who leads the assault on the Jedi Temple. And he wins. But in the battle there is a moment, an instant, where he falters. Because Malgus does not care only for himself. There is a woman, a Twi'lek who he has known since childhood. A woman he loves. A woman who loves him in return and who will walk through any fire to be with him, who is there for him by his side in his moment of triumph, and who is put into danger in the fight against the Jedi. He sees her at risk and, for the briefest moment, he loses focus. He saves her, but it almost costs him everything. This does not go unnoticed. Other Sith fixate on this connection as a weakness of his and threaten her, but before they get the chance to hurt her she is taken by someone else. The forces of the Republic come back for vengeance, a Jedi who felt her master die when Malgus killed him. They take her hostage and Malgus rushes to her aid, sacrificing everything else to get to her and even trading the Jedi freedom to escape Coruscant unharmed just to have her back safely. They are alone together, and the woman smiles and tells Malgus that she knew he loved her, and Malgus agrees. He says the one thing he never could before, for so many reasons, just before he activates his lightsaber and burns through her heart. There is a phrase, a metaphor really, that the Dark Side is like a flame. It burns, consumes, transforms. For all its destruction it is somehow beautiful to behold, and it has the power to show one the path forward when all else seems lost and unclear. It can burn away fog, clear a path through attachments and expectations and burdens, but only by reducing them all to cinders. It is powerful, beautiful, but dangerous also. A thing to be feared. Those that taste the Dark Side come away with the intoxicating flavor of evolution on their tongue, yet as the flavor fades they begin to feel the pain. The burn. The wise flee, telling all who would listen that though the taste was sweet the toll of the flame was too great, too high, that in tasting transformation they were diminished. That for all its power, all its warmth, all it's terrible beauty, fire knows only how to burn. The foolish ignore the wise and charge recklessly in, tasting the flame and drinking deep from its wells of power and fury, and in doing so they die with mad smiles on their lips, burned out from within less than two steps from their home. Then there are the desperate, the arrogant, and the deluded. They say to themselves that the wise were merely fearful, that the foolish were merely reckless, and that they need not suffer either fate. They take the flame in hand, neither fearing the flame nor feeding themselves to it, but using it as one would a tool. They light a candle, at first. Then two, then three, then a torch. Small at first, but once they come to understand the flame then they have mastered it, understood it, controlled it, or so they believe. They light more. They light a fire, then a bonfire, then in time a pyre fit for the heathen kings of old. The Dark light of the flame fills the eyes of the damned until it is all they can see and it blinds them. They burn, themselves, convinced they are the ones in control even as all the things the dreamed for are consumed in the blaze. But they are not all that there is, there is still one more supplicant of the Dark Side. The madman, the Sith. Not just any Sith, but the true Sith. The final Sith. The refined, distilled, perfect Sith. Not bound to any one Order, though an order was erected from among their number by one who understood this better than most, these Sith are the purest embodiment of the flame, of the Dark Side, both its terrible strength and its terrible cost. For them, the flame is not merely transformation. For them, it is apotheosis. For these are the ones who do not shy from the flame, who neither take ut for themselves nor attempt to wield as a tool. These are the ones who offer themselves up to it as sacrifices. To change, to grow, to die, to be reborn. They burn. For the wise, the flame was a scar. For the fool, the flame was a drug. For the desperate, the arrogant, and the deluded, it was a tool. But for these dark martyrs the flame is the end in itself. The fire is no mere tool, it is perfection incarnate. For all others, to burn is a sign of failure. For all others, pain is a sign of failure. For all others, the scars, the agony, the scent of searing flesh, it is all the proof that they have somewhere gone horribly wrong. But for the true Sith? For the true Sith, the servants, summoner, slaves, and masters in all of the Dark power of the flame? For them these things are the proof of their transformation. They wish to die. They wish to burn. They wish, above all, to transform. The fire consumes all things, and so the madmen aspire to become flames themselves. Darth Malgus was born and died three thousand years before Darth Bane spoke the words that would define the fate of the Sith ever after, but if they had taken council together then I am convicted that they would have understood each other perfectly. For Darth Malgus knew pain, knew loss, knew sacrifice. And he knew, more than anything else, the absolute importance of taking ownership of his own suffering. He murdered the woman he loved in the very same breath as confessed the truth of his feelings for her. Had anyone else taken her life, taken her from him, he would have broken. But they didn't, and so he did instead. He killed her. He betrayed her. He looked back upon all he was, all he had been, all the trappings of love and culture and tradition, of status and expectation and personhood, and in that moment he saw only one thing. Kindling to set the world ablaze. For all its power, all its warmth, all its terrible beauty, fire knows only how to burn. And so it was that Malgus died, died with his love, died with his heart, died with the fire of the Dark Side burning through his soul. And so it was that Darth Malgus was reborn. Not a man but an idea personified, dark Fire Incarnate. An avatar of the Dark Side, the two powers combining, fusing, submitting and enslaving in equal measure. From the Crucible of conflict something greater is born, something more than the sum of its parts. The madman dies, and from fire the Sith is born. But for all that a fire may consume, all it may devour, all the long years it may lie smoldering and slowly spreading its embers throughout the tinder-dry foundations of the of the world, for all it may prepare itself for the day long awaited when it shall spring forth from the shadows in a terrible blaze to burn the old world upon the pyre of its sins, the final truth is this. That for all its power, all its warmth, all its terrible beauty, a fire knows only how to burn. And in the end, a madman can only burn so long. When the day is ended, nought is left of their martyrdom save ash and smouldering cinder.

Ah, yes, never forget the iconic moments in the Star Wars extended universe as featured in the movie Good Burger: mondo burger keeps trying to tempt Ed to join the dark side and Otis, who is actually a retired, exiled Salvatore Tessio, uncovers Mondo Burger’s efforts at sabotage.

I feel like the Sith in the Old Republic had more liberty within the galaxy than during the Empire era where duty came first leaving minimal time to yourself or for others because Papa Palp is always watching.

The reason why I love your channel so much is because you're able to take this seemingly grandiose SW concepts like the Sith ideology and turn it into a message for us to reflect on in our daily lives. Thanks Generation Tech, humanity first.

Vader’s path to the Darkside truly stemmed from his unrelenting hatred of sand, not the will to save Padme from certain death. It’s a common misconception.

The sith sacrifice things like love, family and friends for things like power and security.

*Introverts: **_"We don't have such weaknesses!"_*

I agree. "How cold is the heart when it's warmth that it seeks." ~Sting

The Sith: Allowed to have attachments but has no social groups The Jedi: Not allowed to have attachments but has a vast social group

As someone who has seen American Psycho, I would like to remind everyone that story is not about slaughter and mayhem, it is about what happens when a person's mind begins to break. from pressure and tension and stress and a need to succeed nonstop. he forgoes positive relationships, constantly lashes out in a professional manner denies love and intimacy even, he becomes so obsessed with being better that he fails to remember that all of that "verticle thinking" can only go two ways, Up, and then, down. while a more horizontal lifestyle will spread itself out and see love and appreciation for what they already have and what they encounter in their lives. simple things like reminiscing about a loved one who you may have lost, is that of a horizontal way of thinking, you are pretty much closing yourself off to all of the negative thoughts of losing them or not having them around and allowing yourself to become vulnerable through your mourning process. the thing is, he never actually did end up killing anyone, except in his own head. when he calls his therapist to help himself stop murdering people out of guilt he swears that he has killed a lot of people. but in truth, he never killed anyone, it was all a very violent melodrama he had imagined over time,. even his therapist exclaims that he never killed anyone that everyone seems to be completely fine and that he never did anything of the sort over the phone, which is what led him to his inevitable downfall. he realised in the end that he was breaking down, that he couldn't just keep doing his life in the way he already was. and so in the end he had to fall down to the darkest moments in a person's life to reach rock bottom and lose everything, which is why the American Psycho story is such a tragedy. it's a blatant perspective of how bad the verticle-only mindset of progress can wear heavily down on a person's mental physical and emotional well-being until eventually they snap when you reach the top it is like a roller coaster, and everything goes downhill before it can o uphill again. you have to be able to enjoy whatever moments of solace and social interactions you have in your life, or you are more bound to break than you might have ever thought. even your love and sex life will become effected if you are not care of that "progressive" culture. from the jealous desire for your own happiness while blatantly despising valentines Day, or watching others get what you want most, a family a loving partner, while completely ignoring more important needs to just let those things come and focus on what is already in front of you. that desperate desire for the ultimate goal becomes the main stressing factor and you can see that negative outlook as damaging when those smaller building blocks and choices create all of your opportunities both for social life and for your own happiness and success.

count Dooku is a fallen jedi in my opinion. He never went fully to the dark side. He embraced it, so that way he could be in an advantage.

I don’t take Star Wars too seriously (Especially the Jedi) but the rule of two is a really sophisticated philosophy.

As weird and strange as it is, playing a light side Sith in the Old Republic mmo was the sole moment when it felt great. Learning the dark arts while still keeping your humanity and (some) of the jedi values, balancing them together and there were a lot of moments meeting some characters where it paid off. There's also Kreia and Revan from KOTOR which were good example, seeking power and knowledge but still balancing dark and light side. There is only the Force.

And then you have Darth Maul in new canon. A child who was taken from his mother, Talzin, and crafted into a tool of darkness his entire life. Even he needed his brother, the unfortunately named Savage Oppress, and losing him genuinely hurt him. Then he sought out his mother again, and she ended up dying. He ended up trying to get an apprentice and ally in Ahsoka Tano, for pragmatic reasons, but also because he felt a kinship with her: his Master rejected him and used him even realizing he still lived, and the Jedi Order was willing to throw her under the bus. And this isn't even going into his relationship with Ezra Bridger. It was all for power and convenience, but he was lonely as all hell. He controlled the Shadow Collective, and then Crimson Dawn, and none of it was enough for him. It wanted his old Master Palpatine to accept him. He wanted his brother at his side as his apprentice. He wanted Mother Talzin to tell him what to do. He wanted Ahsoka to help him kill Anakin and defeat the Jedi and the Sith. He even trained Qi'ra as a successor in Crimson Dawn despite her lack of Force sensitivity, and surprisingly well. And then Ezra, going as far as to almost sympathize with the other's past and loss. In the end, Maul at least died in the arms of his self-proclaimed enemy, Obi-Wan. For me, Anakin and Dooku were lonely. Even Palpatine was, though his mentality would never acknowledge it. But Maul, he almost never had a chance.

Lot of people dream of using the dark side for the cool powers but ignore the consequences such as the Sith

Being a fan of Star Wars & Star Trek, when I saw the title, my thoughts IMMEDIATELY went to “I, Borg”, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the episode, the Enterprise finds a severely injured Borg drone at a crash site & brings him aboard to treat him. The drone (who is given the name Hugh), becomes lonely because he’s disconnected from the Borg collective hive mind. Steve Shives just did a Retro Review of the episode last Thursday.

Being Evil Sucks trope in a nutshell for Sith

A really cool script would have an actor like Heath Ledger (RIP) do for a Sith character arc like he did for the Joker. One of the greatest mistakes Disney makes with the "bad guys" is they're turned into cartoonish excuses for antagonists. A Sheev Palpatine origins script would be amazing if it had the Dark Knight recipe.

These videos really show to me why the Nightsisters are the most balanced of the force traditions. They are still messed up in their own way, but way better than the two extremes of the Jedi and the Sith.

I consider myself as a loner and as a introvert but I still follow the light side of the Force.

It's a sad life of being an Sith when you only care for is power.

I recall that from what is now considered Legends, that there was some important nuance here. There was considered a difference between someone who uses the dark side, and a Sith. Yes, the Sith used the dark side quite a bit. However, the Sith were a philosophical structure, which made them behave very different than someone who just uses the dark side, and which allowed the Sith to tap in to some esoteric and particularly dangerous powers.

Do you know a great sith? Lana Beniko! Extraordinary woman! She had a great philosophy about the Dark Side. She didn't want power or control as the main goal, she wanted to better herself and conquer her own things like any other person who lives and have needs, she only used the force as a resource to get what she need like we use our hands to grab things we need. She saw the power boost and leadership as a bonus, she saw it as a responsability too. She was competent and that brought her fame and prestige, people would respect and follow her because she was good at her job and now she would have new followers but with new followers comes reputation and responsabilities. She got more powerful so she could get the job done and that makes her a even more efficient leader, she didn't wanted to be a leader or a powerful sith but just a normal person who had responsabilities, dreams, needs, fears and bonds (the player himself can be a important part of her life, even marrying her or something). She basically said: "With great powers comes great responsabilities" to a open minded stoic jedi and he applaud her.

Wow. Very well said about everything here. Great advice for younger people. So many miss the point of movies like American Psycho and Fight Club… it’s mocking or showing the ridiculousness of things and instead, people see it as a path. It’s lost on them. Need far more insightful RU-vidrs like you out there.

I must be a sith.

Small disclaimer American Psycho took place in the 80's not the 90's. Awesome video other wise especially how you expose what's wrong with extremists views on any side.

Power is no substitute for love.

Theres actually something like this in the legends story dark Empire. Palpatine after he came back was trying to convert Luke. He admitted that he felt power in the dark side, but he also felt all the negative aspects of it as well. One of those being loneliness and isolation. That, plus help fron Leia, allowed him to remain in the light and ultimately destroy the Palpatine clone.

That's what I love about the Sith is that they really don't try to hide being the evil bad guys of the Galaxy.

“The Sith always betray each other…”

I just want to point out that I feel attacked on my lifestyle several times, even if I'm not a force user.

If you look at it from a more dualistic point of view, Anakin really was bound to fall to the dark side one way or another. As you mention yourself, both the Jedi and the Sith are quite extreme in their viewpoints and ways. In order to bring balance to the force, the slate had to be cleaned first. Anakin brought balance by first diminishing both sides and thus allowing new growth to come from that.

Most of the time Sith Lords - if they don't start out mad, sure as shit become mad, if not from the darkside, then from the extended puppeteer show they need to put on CONSTANTLY to HIDE themselves from the Jedi.

A lot of other channels, talk about joining the Darkside like it’s a way of leveling up. In reality it’s more like cheating at a sport by taking steroids. Sure you gain a lot of strength and speed quickly, but you also become a jerk to be around and are prone to angry outbursts causing you to lose close connections of family and friends. It’s a path to unnatural power because the path itself is an unnatural and consuming path.

The saying “misery loves company” exists for a reason

Sith are lonely cause all they want is power even if they form emotional attachments with a partner those feelings are deened as weakness. An example being darth bane, dude cut down his psrtner cause she made him vulnerable.

“Of course I cultivate attachments. They are a source of passion and thus power. Hate and Anger are not the only sources of strength the Jedi Order suppress in Force Wielders through the Galaxy to keep us weak - they forbid Love for the same reason.”

I must be a Sith because so am I

We need a collab between Geetsly's and Generation Tech

4:27, 4:33 More specifically, to power their will. Pain, fear, anger or hatred are all useless to a Darksider that lacks the will or focus to channel it properly (take, for instance, how unstable Anakin becomes after becoming a Darksider to the point where he strangled his pregnant wife, the very person he turned to the Dark Side in order to gain supposedly existing power to protect and then was beaten by a less powerful opponent due to a mistake) or have too many conflicting or inconsistent emotions to use as fuel for their power (take, for example, how Vader’s abilities began to falter as he became conflicted over how to handle Luke). While Jedi and other Lightsiders primarily use their will and focus to channel the Force (as well as to either suppress or regulate their emotions depending on the individual’s personality), Sith and other Darksiders primarily use emotion to fuel their will and focus to channel the Force with greater intensity (while also allowing them to access more of their potential and power they already have with greater speed and ease). But, Just like a Lightsider can weaken or fluctuate in power due to disruptions to their will or focus, especially by emotion, Darksiders can similarly wane and wax in power depending on their emotional intensity and ability to control it (as we see individuals like Asaaj Ventress, Darth Maul and Savage Oppress gain temporary power boosts that allow them to withstand great adversity or easily overpower opponents that were fighting even with them moments prior, but only when they were sufficiently motivated through intense emotion caused by external, extenuating circumstance, making it sporadic and otherwise unreliable). This fact is another reason why Jedi chose to follow the Light Side, as it relies on and indirectly encourages an individual to build discipline and stability in their minds and emotions and overtime allow them to channel and control their power more consistently. Palpatine was one of the most effective Sith because of his ability to control and utilize his emotions combined with his unbreakable will and focus on his ambitions and his naturally high potential in the Force.

I'm wondering now what might have happened if Vader had succeeded in turning Luke in RotJ -- if the two of them had been able to defeat Palpatine together and take over the Empire. How would Sith ideology change when the master and apprentice are father and son? Do you think that "shred of good" in Vader might have led to a more functional Empire?

The sith need to be reorganized into something like the Serpents Hand

Well done-great analysis as usual.

"you could even stop the ones you love from dying.." "you mean you could save people from death?" Palpatine was not talking about immortality, he was talking about preservation. it is true that Palpatine wanted to use Vader to over his own mortality, but the truth was Anakin took this information the wrong way. anyone can essentially save someone from dying. Jedi especially would do this all the time. sith as well, if you care about the well-being of someone, you will usually protect them however you can. so when he talks about the dark side saving people from dying. he is talking about the uninhibited desire to preserve her well-being. he was still technically messing with his head. but he was still stating a factor most don't think about.

I came to this channel for the bite size and full course lore vids... But I stay here for the times you say some real shit about the world we live in and society and all that. Keep it real my man, thanks for your words and your vids

May the force be with you

I appreciate the more adult topics Adam, keep it up.

The problem is not the Dark Side, or the Force, but the twisted imitation of Sith Ideology that has survived in the hands of the psychopaths that eventually perpetuated it. The original 'Sith Lords' / 'Dark Jedi' favoured the dark side rather than devoting solely to it, using just enough of the light to maintain an anchor to their 'humanity'; and they also understood that the path to the Dark Side is Passion, not just Rage. That loved ones were a strength, not a chain, to be cherished and avenged.

I love your insights. thank you

Honestly I don't know if they even have the time to be lonely, since they are constantly searching new ways to get power, scheming for more political power, or new powerful ways to destroy the Jedi Order.

One thing I've always wondered about the Sith is how they don't all become drug addicted whorehounds, it seems like that would be a huge pitfall for someone who only pursues passion and emotion above all else that would claim a lot of them.

11:12 this got strangely therapeutic. thanks, dawg.

This goes along with something I've thought for a while about palpatine: that he was bored out of his skull by being in power, and that's the real reason he allowed himself to be killed by Vader's hand at the battle of endor. Throughout history, the sith have never really been on top. Sure, they've come close, even at one point brought the republic to near total destruction, but they've never really been unopposed. Even in the example I just gave, they were still driven for more power, as the sith lord in charge at the time was still trying to become a god. But then the blockade of naboo, the clone wars, and finally order 66 happened, and the jedi were all but destroyed. The sith had finally won, and there was no more power for palpatine to gain. He had become the Senate. Then we see palpatine becoming reclusive, not showing up to the Senate, unless, once again, a situation brewed that gave him the chance to flex his political skills, just like it did with Admiral Rampart. Then he was ready, maybe even eager, to step in and flex his skills to manipulate the masses. But he was a Sith through and through. The death star was built, the Senate dissolved, and the death star was built again. And palpatine prepared for his death, in 2 important ways. First, he set up a secret project to clone himself, so that when he died, he could return to power. Which, if he'd used that right after Endor, would be an absolute crippling blow to the morale of the rebellion. Imagine it. They just destroyed the death star, again. They killed the imperial head of state. But he didn't die. He's still there, and there are rumours of another death star. How can the rebels possibly defeat an unkillable enemy? But he didn't do that. He waited. Why? The second preparation was to make sure that the empire couldn't outlive him, that it would fall apart without him. And it did. But why would he want this if he was prepared to to return? I believe that by the time of the battle of endor, palpatine was bored. He'd conquered his enemies, built massive planet killers, and they weren't satisfying him anymore. At some point, the amount of power a person has accumulated becomes just another number. What good is having power when there's no one to challenge it? So he went to endor, boarded the DS2, and challenged the rebellion once more. He planned to wipe them out, and brought the last powerful jedi right to him. To turn him to the dark side, he told himself. A new challenge, finally. And he was challenged. Luke refused his offer, and had to be destroyed. Palpatine ignored his rational mind's warnings that Vader cared for his son, and would react protectively, the same exact trait palpatine himself had exploited to turn him. And he tortured Luke, and Vader stepped in. The rest is history. Then the empire collapsed, the emperor found his cloned body, and waited. Waited for the Rebellion to dispose of his failed lackeys, become the new republic, until at last they were powerful enough to threaten his new plan.

YEAH ALAN YOU GOT IT ------ I HAVE ALWAYS FOLLOWED THE PATH OF THE LIGHT - TO ALWAYS EVOLVE INTO A BETTER MAN A GOOD MAN ------ FOLLOWED THE LIGHT FOREVER

Bro, dolphin ghosts are the worst.

Whoa bro can you be my therapist Allen...This hit me right in the feels!

I always listen out for “Checks and Balances”

Well having the Rule of two can definitely not help that. 😂

You'd have some fun going through Star Trek and their Admirals and Badmirals.

greatest ad pivot/segway of all time

this is why I want to see more of Dooku man. Hes just too similar to Anakin.

2:13 missed opportunity to have a BBQ maker as a sponsor.

I think the issue you have is this characters don’t really act like people because they seemingly don’t have much emotion or care, and I had this same problem too. What I realized is that their purpose in the movies and just the movies none of this EU/Canon extra crap, is that they were meant to just be like a metaphysical evil in a way, Palpaltine was less a person and more a symbol, basically the embodiment of Satan. Vader had much less of this but even the original movies he was more terrifying because of how inhuman he was at first. The truth is these characters had a much different purpose in the story then the one they would get or really require to be the truly expansive universe that Star Wars had now.

That intro was grand.

This guys whole appearance is falling to the DarkSide!!!

Yes the sSith snacks are a lie. Just ask Anakin. He can't even eat now and needs to have his nutrients tube fed to him.

the good burger reference is nice

I saw this movie. Thought it was crazy. Still don't know what to believe lol

Came for a star wars lore video Left with philosiphy and life advice

A fascinating analysis, Alan. Your observations remind me of another RU-vid, a reviewer of comics and his dissection of evil. He essentially defined evil as a loser's ideology, they commit countless atrocities to state their dark desires. And yet any satisfaction they gained was fleeting. Meaning they must commit these deeds over and over again. with each return more diminishing then the last. Condemning themselves to a futile quest to fill a void that will never be sated. Take Insidious and Darth Vader for example. The Emperor brought the Republic under his heel, yet even that did not satisfy him. He wanted not just the entire galaxy, but all of creation to become his puppet show. A quest forever doomed to fail. For as William Shakespeare put it. The world is more akin to a stage, where each person plays many roles in the grand performance that we call life. Vader understood that quite intimately. As the way I saw it, all the pain and suffering he inflicted on others was his attempt to distance himself from the man he was. A man who craved power to save what he held dear, only for that very power to take everything from him. The tragic irony being that it is this very inner conflict that fuels his new persona. Meaning whether he wins or loses, he is damned all the same. Perhaps that's what makes these agents of evil so intriguing. They are both the ultimate power fantasy as well as a cautionary tale of what we can become if we allow our inner darkness to consume us. Regardless, thank you for another fascinating analysis and hope you have a wonderful day.

that dark saber cosplay sword is kool!

Those that seek power above all else should never have or wield it as they are not fit for it.

love the wallpaper on the monitor i have stolen this now

That thumbnail is nice, and I can see Vader immediately crushing that butterfly with the force afterwards.

There is no way Palpatine and Anakin could sit there beside a lava river !!! I have been next to flowing lava on the Big Island !!! You cannot stand or sit anywhere near the stuff, it is seriously hot !!!

You cant build a partical accelerator from microwave parts. However you can build a maser. You will also need wave guides and magnetic lenses. Both are easy to make

I mean if you ask Tales of the Jedi, Dooku was already working with Palpatine before Qui Gon died

1:26 sold

The "Come work for me at Mondoburger" was so out of nowhere that it had me bust out laughing. Well done lol

Could you do a video on what it would look like if the Jedi coupled the republic

Good video

I just had a severe case of deja vu, I swear I've seen this video months ago

I feel like Palpatine personally thought he looked better, or at least always wanted to look like he did after the - you know. Like it was work for him to keep the "nicer" mask on, and he could finally show his true face, which he preferred. I think he could have continued to look human after that, but just didn't want to.

@ 15:48 you said Darth sidious would stab Darth plaguis while he was sleeping. I think you're wrong cuz I'm pretty sure Darth sidious electrocuted Darth plagueis his breathing apparatus in his sleep using Force lightning

I'd imagine that the extreme mental states brought about by both Jedi and Sith ideologies is an actual requirement to utilizing the Force in an active manner as opposed to just a passive one. They're unnatural on purpose.