PT Darth Plagueis the Wise

It's one of the favorite scenes in SW movies, Plagueis is also one of my favorite Sith. But shouldn't Anakin suspect Palpatine is Sidious after heard it?

 

eh

not really,

he's a Chancellor,

he's probably well read in all matters of culture

including sith folklore

"it;s a sith legend"

are only the Jedi supposed to know about Sith?

i doubt it

 

He said "not from a Jedi", that's luring Anakin, and beside him very few people knew about Plagueis, not to say his death.

 

in that case, I shouldn't know anything about Greek mythology or any other ancient civilisation


and why shouldn't ordinary people know what Sith were?

wasn't there a sith war or Empire?

pretty useless empire if it was a secret one..

 

The problem is nobody beside Sidious even know Plagueis' death, very few people know this name.

 

that's why he was careful to say "legend"

 

Legend should be well known.

 

given that the ways of the Jedi were not well known to the general public

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oh really?

"you're a Jedi knight aren't you?"

"I saw your laser sword, only a Jedi carry that kind of weapon"

"what do you think you're some kind of Jedi waving your hand around like that?"

jabba: he's using an old Jedi mind trick"

these are people from an outer rim planet..

if these people know rhe basics of what the Jedi are, it seems unlikely that Palpatine an educated man wouldn't know an odd legend or two regarding the enemy


.

 

any reason for the facetious LOLing?

or did you genuinely miss my point?

I did not say people knew everything about them,

just as I don't know the daily routines of a catholic monk, or what they do 24 hours a day despite being a catholic myself

but they knew basics, that is far from "not well known"

even if they are that is not the point.

Palpatine is not the General Public, he's a Chancellor and from what I've read a very very cultured guy.

To say "no, there is no way Palpatine could have known anything about the Sith, every Chancellor has the same interests, beliefs, education" is quite frankly absurd.

 

well I agree that Anakin maybe should have thought about it a bit but Anakin might have thought:

A) eh, he must know a bit about about old legends,

(and put it out his mind)

B) he wanted to hear the story and wasn't that bothered about semantics on where he heard it, his mind was on Padme the whole time.

Also, Palps might want to have a little history on the enemy of the people he's in contact with, just to be briefed in case of complications


in short:

It's not enough for me to think "Anakin, you idiot" for not realising.

 

fair enough

but would you call it bad writing from Lucas?

or just Anakin being dumb ie: Anakin was written to be stupid?

 

I just see the scene differently I think

I see it as more of an expanded character assestment on Palpatine being highly educated and commited to "kowledge" rather than a Anakin scene,


but hey interesting viewpoint and one I hadn't considered before

 

Of course, he also said that no one could kill a Jedi. Shows what you know, kid.

 

Oh, Anakin totally at least suspects. Look at the phrasing of his opening line before Palpatine lays it all out:

"I know there's things about the Force they're not telling me." *weighted pause*

He might not know Palpatine is Sidious at that point, but he clearly knows Palpatine has more knowledge than he's letting on about.

 

Arawn: but kids think those things "no one can beat my uncle in a fight, he's black belt in Tae Kwondo"

same sort of thing.

 

In The Clone Wars: Wild Space, we find out that Palpatine and Padme were told at least a little bit about the Sith, after the Naboo incident.

 

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened to that non-human spaceship crew which was murdered by Plagueis when he went off Bal'demnic to Muunilinst. Would he have spared them when they would have complied to his wishes to fly him to Muunilinst without posing questions to him or delivering him back to the authorities of Bal'demnic? The same thing I ask myself about Zannah flying from Ruusan to Onderon. Will she have spared the crew when they would have flown her to Onderon on Zannah's initial wish? Or is it likely that Plagueis would have killed the crew also to prevent potential witnesses though they would have fully complied to Plagueis' wishes?

 

Yes you could say that but he was a good friend to him or so Anakin thought but anyway another Jedi would have like say Yoda and Obi-won would of become deeply suspicious but as I said before since Anakin trusted palpatine he didn't suspect anything that we know of anyway.


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