Was Palpatine's First Death Completely Pointless - Star Wars Explained Weekly Q&A 

omega's got a body count, though

A fett is a fett.

Which is weird, how the hell does Omega shot a Clone Trooper

That’s what I’m thinking

Well in an interview for Star Wars Rebels they said that they had an idea to use Commander Cody to come out of retirement to help fight Rex. But they decided not to go with this storyline

I swear, Cody is like Delta Squad where they seem to be trying hard *not* to use him.

I wish Obi Wan and Ahsoka had an episode without Anikin. Could give them a bonding moment.

wow that could be an incredible episode. seeing obi-wan in that situation could be mad - he’s never been the best at managing emotions, just ignoring them, so that kind of confrontation could be super interesting

I really like that idea! I just finished Jedi dooku lost

i dont wanna spoil. just look at the writers from both.

@@delarkaBCN yeah I definitely think there is at least a small connection.

Apparently the Story Group for the high Republic had several different projects to choose from and hid them in Dooku Jedi lost. And eventually the one they chose was the high Republic.

Totally agree

It didn’t have the responsibility of ending a Saga of six. If you forgot, the prequels didn’t exist yet.

Agreed. If JJ wanted to adapt Dark Empire, he should have done that upfront across the whole trilogy and not wasted time with Snoke.

@@tomn6800 That's exactly my point.

@@tomn6800 okay disagree

I never dislike their videos but to be honest they almost always defend all of the Disney’s decisions. Even if the decisions are complete bizarre, they always have something “good” to say for it’s defence

They probably disagree with the palpatine stuff , it's fine though , RU-vid still counts it as engagement

@@Muddasir11 Is it a bad thing tho?

@@Sondergirl1610 Alex has been critical of being Palpatine back all along, it’s not a secret. He just doesn’t pander to the “I hate Star Wars” crowd the way a lot of RU-vidrs do.

Yeah, it's refreshing to see a SW channel made by people who actually LIKE SW lmfao

I’d kinda doubt it. If we did see him in anything other than a flashback the stakes for his comic series would really drop.

Exactly. I don't know why people say that undermines Anakin's character. If anything it makes him more important.

Lol yeah

@@scout.trooper9148 it’s because they are looking at a prequel standpoint probably

@@bullrun2772 there are a lot of fans for whom it's reeaally important that Anakin is The Chosen One, even tho imo overly fixating on that was literally a major in-universe contributor to his downfall, and even Yoda himself says the prophecy could've been misread... but I digress

@@dlein93 I get your point and stuff like some fans are obnoxious but it

Different method. The Jedi order would have never alowed him to take care of his mother. Be it for protection or just as a way to use his money and power to give her a comfortable life. In the end he would have needed to go behind their back to help her just like he needed to so he could love padame. His mom in the end would have been used in a very similar way ad padame was.

10 bucks says Palpatine would be trying to get her assassinated regardless for the same result.

@@Quincy299 precisely

I love the Positivity but I can't agree. I really think it ruins his sacrifice. Yes, the crux was saving his son, but the arc the prequels created is predicated on Palpatines defeat. It feels so meaningless knowing he comes back. It doesn't ruin anything for me - mostly because I regard 9 was a weird ass fanfiction movie - but I still think its the single poorest decision made in the recent movies

Even though the reason Anakin turned back was to save his son that doesn't mean there weren't larger things at play here. Whether Anakin knew or not that he was destined to destroy the Sith, we the audience knows he was. So to Anakin his redemption was to save his son but to everyone else he was simply fulfilling his destiny.

@@tseh3 that's my issue. You cannot throw away the chosen one prophecy in one line from anakins voice. You have to address it. Kylo and Rey should have been the embodiment of the balance anakin brought. But JJ is terrified of the prequels lol

@@FigsNLifts There was a prophecy stating that Anakin would destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force. But I don't think he cared about that. He cared about his son.

Whoa, thats really good actually. Although I wouldn't want Winter to be a servant in that scenario, using that name would be really cool.

Is this a reference to something?

Is this a reference to something?

^ This

Well the answer to that is quite clear: He was referring to the Siege of Mandalore, as he only orchestrated it because of his vision ("dream", as Almec put it) about Anakin Skywalker being "the key to everything". He only recieved said vision several weeks before the Siege of Mandalore, which he then caused to lure Anakin and Obi-Wan out. Maul had other reasons for the Mandalore campaign before that, i.E. assuming power in the galaxy and becoming a credible threat to the Jedi and also to impress his old master Sidious whom he secretly wanted to let him be his Sith apprentice again. I hope this answered your question.

@@dirtyluna5701 Thanks for clarifying, I'd forgotten the timing of his vision.

Nope! It was dumb in Legends and it's dumb now!

@@ShadowLarvitar nope 👎 makes sense but the execution was poor

I think your question has to get a lot of up votes to get in to a Q&A video. I've been asking questions for years and not one of them has been in a Q&A video.

@@DanBen07 Yeah I don't know how to get more upvotes lol

@@CraitMerc I guess more see it then like it.

@@DanBen07 Unfortunately

@@CraitMerc Yeah.

You're forgetting everyone hated Dark Empire back then

If JJ wanted to adapt Dark Empire, I think it could have worked as a properly planned trilogy from the start but the disjointed approach they took caused most of the issues.

@@totallyanonymousbish9599 I was 21 when the Dark Empire 1 first started publication, and honestly all I remember was nearly everyone in the comic stores loving it. To this day I meet SW fans who, for some reason, still love the series. I never could figure out why people liked it.

@@1005corvuscorax I don't even know why ppl liked TROS

Wiki canon "The planet Bespin was a gas giant that was about 118,000 kilometers in diameter. Like most gas giants, it had a solid core made of metal (in this case, rethin, 6,000 kilometers in diameter) followed by layers of metallic gases. Most of the layers of gas were poisonous, and the pressure and temperature were far above what a Human could tolerate. Despite this, from approximately 150 to 180 kilometers down from space there was a 30 kilometer thick habitable layer known as the Bespin Life Zone. This layer had an oxygen atmosphere with temperature and pressure suitable for Human life. It was in this layer that Cloud City was located. As with many gas giants, Bespin had a number of moons. Bespin had a twelve-hour day, and completed a revolution around its star approximately once every fourteen standard years. Bespin's fauna included the winged Tibannucks,velkers,rawwks, the gas-filled beldon, and airborne algae sacks. Bespin was the type class of the Bespin-class gas giant."

K’kruhk for an EU show and played by Ian whyte

Probably not.

Ahsoka flashback?

Either it would be done through a flashback and not necessarily something after the events of being charged with her terrorist act. It's likely she received the death penalty.

@@FATE522 oh gosh, don’t make me think about the death penalty

Haha "@@tomn6800" They're all suggestions based on absolutely NO preceding evidence at all lol invoking the Death Penalty, as if we've ever seen anybody, let alone a former Jedi gone, "Rogue," receiving such a consequence after being arrested by the Republic forces, and all these suggestions of "flashbacks," as if that's even a thing that happens in Star Wars at all, ever. I believe the only, "flashbacks," in Star Wars, either live-action or animation, happened in the Mandalorian. Once with The Mandalorian himself, while his new armor was being made, and again in the second season when Cobb Vanth was telling him the tale of how he acquired his Beskar from the Jawas, after being run out of town by bandits and returned to take the place back, that whole sequence. In fact, people mention things happening and characters making reappearances in "flashback," form all the time, it seems. Even though it's literally NEVER been something that's happened in any Star Wars content ever. (Prior to the Mandalorian, of course.) My question was obviously meant as; "Did Alex and Mollie believe that we'd ever see Barriss Offee again like, in the flesh? Animated or Live-action, not including, "flashbacks," because obviously, characters have NEVER been known to make reappearances in "flashbacks," in Star Wars ever, in the first place so, I didn't mention it even as a possibility, because based on past events, I didn't think I'd have to." You know what I mean?! If "flashbacks" were even a thing, I suppose I could understand somebody making the suggestion lol but, something doesn't become a possibility until it's been demonstrated to actually belong among the list of potential possibilities to begin with. Which, until the Mandalorian, "flashbacks," have NOT. (I'm just sayin' 🤜💥🤛)

Maybe he finds out about Anakin's fate

You should definitely read their recent one-shot

Maybe in comics like bounty hunters or war of the bounty hunters.

@@Blazecap it's on the list. Unfortunately bills are the best bounty hunter.

@@DanBen07 I'm hoping their one-shot will spawn an ongoing series

Star Wars films were never about the "big baddies"; that would be the cartoons.

@@mossryder doesn't changed the fact TROS is dumb

@@mossryder The Original 6 movies in the saga all had the same big villain

Well he actually came back in Legends comics, novels. Then bought him back in Cannon for episode 9.

@@DanBen07 at least they explained it in legends

@@tseh3 Yeah.

Not to mention he did basically the same thing in Legends with clone bodies. Much as I’m not a fan of Palpatine’s resurrection, it’s something that was at least set up.

Well he didn't know how to do it in ROTS yet though, right? Maybe he learnt it over the years before Vader betrayed him, but I still feel him coming back wasn't the greatest idea.

@@SWFT_edits Yeah. I would have preferred (instead of Palpatine and the Final Order) that the Sith Eternal had perfected the Snoke Clones that Palpatine set up and had an army of Force Sensitive soldiers. That way Palpatine is still in the plot, doesn't need to be alive to have importance, and Rey and Kylo still have a common enemy to fight. But whatev, the movie's already made and it's not any worse than Attack of the Clones or Clone Wars (Theatrical).

@@kenji6492 I think the whole film just needed a different story alltogether. It's not worse than the Clone Wars film but I think it's a bit worse than AOTC. At least I can enjoy AOTC laughing at how stupid it is and get some fun out of Obi-Wan playing space detective but when I watch TROS I just get annoyed at the wasted potential and how stupid the whole thing is. And this is coming from someone who loves TLJ and finds TFA to be alright as well.

@@SWFT_edits Yeah, me too. TLJ is just so much better than the rest of the trilogy. I hope the ST characters get good stories going forward because they totally deserve that.

and yet with him surviving, a lot of people died because he survived

So did he die or not?

But it means that Anakin wasn't the Chosen One

Let's be fair: The Rise of Skywalker needs no help from previous films to be less fulfilling...

No, they dont just follow him around fighting him.

@@WhatsTheWordHipHop yeah I know, but they are somewhat related characters, and as such it makes sense to introduce them together

I don't think so, not unless we get a time skip. I do want to see Maul's syndicate in some capacity though

I agree. I always found Anakin's "redemption" to be completely unearned. 20 years of unrepentant slaughter, destruction and oppression, to say nothing of being the lynch pin of the entire Republic's downfall, and one good act (which was still murder ftr) gets him admitted to Jedi heaven? Fanboys complain about Luke's redemption feeling unearned after like 5 years of peaceful exile then turn right around and uncritically praise Ep. 6's ending.

You do realize Star Wars is essentially a fairy tale set in space? From a realistic point of view you're completely right. But Star Wars is undeniably fantasy and not a gritty tale about war, so you gotta embrace that fantasy aspect when watching the movies.