Registered: Aug 2016
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
I like Vitiate's outlook on things better, the fact that he doesn't care about ruling. His want to destroy the galaxy so that he can live countless lives and then be worshipped as a god was something I hadn't seen in many villains. As opposed to Sidious who was the stereotypical "I wanna kill the good guy and rule everything for no other reason than because that's my role" kind of villain. And I mean, I get that Palpatine is a much deeper character in the EU, but I just found his character in the films to be SOOOOOOOO ****ing boring, to the point where, when I discovered the EU, I didn't even give a shit that Palpatine was elaborated on more. And that isn't just for Palpatine honestly, that's for most of the characters in the films, the only characters from the movies that I actually really like in the EU, are Kenobi, Luke, and (to a lesser extent) Anakin.
I try to be as objective as I can when it comes to Palpatine in my rankings and in debates, and I still fully realize that the number of non-entities that are comparable to Sidious can be counted on one hand. But as for his personality and his character in general, I just can't get on board with him.
I will never understand why people think Vitiate is so unique, lmfao. Palpatine did the whole "nihilistic consumption and domination of the universe" thing first.
__________________ ”You presume limits to my power. There are none.”
^yup. Palpatines end goal was a better version of Vitiates plan. Instead of fully consuming the Galaxy he would have fashioned it into a full on DS nexus like Byss, subconsciously controlling the entire galaxy as they feed his now unlimited power. He will then use his "Dark Empire" to spread to other Galaxies, most likely unopposed and become a literal God. In the ROTJ novelization Palpatine muses how the blackness of the Universe was an extension of him, he being the very core. In Dark Empire he wanted that dream to be reality.
__________________ "Vader's pulse and breathing were machine-regulated, so they could not quicken; but something in his chest became more electric around his meetings with the Emperor; he could not say how. A feeling of fullness, of power, of dark and demon mastery -- of secret lusts, unrestrained passion, wild submission -- all these things were in Vader's heart as he neared his Emperor. These things and more."
Registered: Jun 2016
Location: The Throne of the Sheevites
Yeah, it's been stated by omniscient narrators and Palpatine himself that his end goal is absolute omnipotence and dominion over the entire universe itself.
Aug 6th, 2017 03:10 AM
