Today’s “background” while working is Return of the Jedi (where “background” means I stop everything I’m doing to watch certain scenes).
The Emperor seriously is an idiot. I mean, he ALMOST has Luke. If he hadn’t started cackling every time Luke started to lose control and going “good, good!” he would’ve won. Hey dumbass, if you manipulate someone into doing something they don’t want to do, you don’t POINT OUT that they’re doing it.
Jeez.
It’s been so long since Palpatine had to manipulate someone like that he’s forgotten how. He’s also assuming Luke is like his father at that age: desperate for validation and stuck in a cycle of aggression, guilt, and repression. As this is totally not the case, he fails in his conversion effort big time.
Holy shit, you’re right. He’s doing exactly what he did with Anakin.
HOLY SHIT.
*skywalker feelings increase*
OH MY GOD!
This also gives me Uncle Owen and Obi Wan feelings because if Anakin was easily manipulated by Palpatine because it was the first time he truly received emotional validation from a father figure, that means that Luke had good emotional support from his father figures and ahshfkenf help
IT GOT
WORSEBETTER.*skywalker feelings in overload*
I thought about this for years (literally years) before I finally decided that the Emperor was doing it on purpose. He needed Luke to be more than just emotional and impulsive. He needed him angry enough at Vader and/or the Emperor to make a real decision he couldn’t turn back from–one he wouldn’t be able to justify to himself later.
Also he needed to keep Luke focused on and responding to HIM. Because if Luke had stayed centered on Vader, then even if he’d fallen, Palpatine wasn’t going to make it out of that room alive. If Luke went Dark Side with Vader still alive, the very next thing that would have happened was a coup d’etat by the Skywalker men.
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