Palpatine's reason for picking Anakin

We all basically know why Palpatine picks Anakin as his apprentice. The fact that Anakin is the most powerful based on potential and that he has a lot of reasons to dislike the Jedi. But maybe there is more to it than that. At the end of TPM novelization(I know its not cannon, but read anyways) it describes Palpatine/Sidious saying to himself that those responsible for the death of his student, Darth Maul, will be held accountable...or something like that. We know that Palaptine raised Maul from infancy which ment they had to be very close. Maybe as some sort of revenge Palpatine chooses Anakin simply because its Obi-Wan's apprentice. I don't know if Lucas would throw this in, but it could make good sense.

The books and the movies arn't the same, are they?

I don't know. I think of Palpatine as more methodical. It don't seem like him to have much sympathy for his apprentice. After all, he didn't seem to mind too much about killing Vader.

yeah, he doesn't care.

he picked anakin as his apprentice because he is anakins 'father.' palpatine genetically engineered anakin to be the most powerful jedi ever, then put him in shmi on tatooine on the outer rim, so that he would go unnoticed by the jedi until he was too old to be trained by yoda. that way anakin would not have the benefit of learning to control his powers. what do you get when you have a person with the highest midichlorian count ever, who has not been trained from infancy to control it? a sith. the most bad-ass sith ever, to be more specific. anakin was born to be a sith.

ah. . . I don't think so.

If he went to all that trouble, then why did he try to have Luke bump Vader off in VI?

And why did Palpatine create this all powerful Jedi that had the ability to destroy him?

hmmmmmm lets think about this. in ROTJ, vader was more machine than man. he could hardly fight. luke was younger, stronger, and he only told him to strike vader down when vader was weakened in the fight. besides, we dont know LUKES midichlorian count, do we? perhaps it was even larger than anakins. as to creating someone powerful enough to destroy him, he NEEDED someone that powerful to help him get to be emperor in the first place. it was necessary for the strategy. the emperor did NOT know anakin had a son at the time and vader would NOT have turned if not for luke.

Then why did Qui-gon know he was going to save everyone?

first of all, qui-gon was not one with the force. he was a rogue jedi with alot of ideas that the council, including yoda and mace, disagreed with. that being said, anakin DID save everyone. he killed the emperor and brough balance to the force.

ok, this is EU, so what the heck is written in it doesn't count
(see the novalization of ROTJ for example)

I know that its EU, I even said that in the first post, but I think it could be an interesting point. It would go with the whole theme of bad things happening to Obi-Wan. The fact that Anakin turns is bad enough but to find out that the reason he did was simply because it was his padawan.

should this be in expanded universe?

but, now we are just guessing without anything that we can relate to as proof...

Can I PLEASE remind people that books of the films are NOT EU! EU is NOT a term that means 'incorrect', nor does it mean 'non-canonical'; you can't just throw it at anything that is not right any more.

EU is any Star Wars worked not based on a GL story. Therefore the novelisations can NEVER be EU, because they are based on GL's work. They can be wrong, but that is neither here nor there as far as calling thwm EU is concerned.

The fact remains that all knowledge should be obtained in the films. You shouldn't have to read the books. It is bad film-making to leave something without explination.

Yeah, in the film cannon, Books EU that doesnt COUNT

okok Ush, don't yell 😄
*whispers* woohoo! I succeeded again!

but you have to admit that you have nothing with the novalization...

hmmmmmm. you made an interesting point tomacco. bad filmaking? whos the writer/director/producer of these movies again? george lucas?

bad film making.... george lucas.... bad film making.... george lucas?

phantom menace

nawwww. thought i was on to something for a second there. 🙂

can i just ask bigsef2 if you don't think lucas is a good film maker/direcotr then why do you like star wars.

GL doesn't have time to explain every little detail. If he did, there would be no plot to the movie. Then, he might as well release a press release at starwars.com and explain something. After all, it would be much cheaper, I think. (the end in Watto voice)

ok sandy. i liked the original trilogy, especially ESB and ROTJ. in those movies GL did not direct or write the script, he just did the basic story. in phantom, he did everything and sucked at 90 percent of it. think of the things you like about the phantom menace. and think of whether those things you like would have been there with pretty much ANY director.