sidious

how the hell does sidios aka palpatine aka the emperor hide his powers from the jedi?! no one senses it in episode I, and they obviously dont sense it in 10 YEARS b/w Episode I and episode II. luke was barely trained and he could sense the dark side. and lucas wants us to beleive that a sith master can hide from the freaking jedi council and be in the same room?!?!! what is the explaination of this? will it be explained in episode II?

"Hard to see the darkside is"-Yoda in TPM

I got the feeing that luke could sence Vader because he was his son......the cave thing in ESB was kind of a test......

The sith lords(especially sidious) consider masking their identity almost an art form.......

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you are correct JO

one thing i considered is that in TPM, palpatine doesnt use the force at all. they could sense maul because he was USING the dark side, but if palpatine doesnt actively use it, theres nothing for the council to sense.

I don't think they ever sensed Maul in a Dark Side sense.

I think Sidious does stuff all the time. Just his activities are ALWAYS hard to detect. Still, it;s quite a feat no matter which way you look at it.

they said it was impossible when QGJ said that his attacker was a Sith

Well, only Mundi actively said it was impossible. Considering that by the end of the day Windu was saying' This is the clue we need to unravel the mystery of the Sith' I would imagine that they were at least willing to consider the possibility.

QGJ said that "his guess was" that his attacker was a Sith. Just poiting that out. So that may have been mere deduction (dark warrior well trained in the Jedi arts - who could that be??? D'oh, maybe a Sith?)

Luke didn't sense Palpy either, despite the fact that he was flying right past him or being on the moon below him. THe dark side is hard to see indeed.

Palpatine is the man. Kill 'em all, Palpy!!!

well, Mundi also said "But the Sith has been destroyed for over a millenia"
so they were all unsure,
and QGJ said "My guess is..." because Maul didn't said:
"Hey, there, my name is Maul and I'm a Sith"

What I said.

show-off!

Just plain fact.

sure thing 🙄

Maul could have been holding the force close to him. That way noone could tell he was a force user.

what do you mean?

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yeah! what the bold guy said!

I read somewhere....sorry prob non-canonical EU or something.....that a jedi could hold the force in around themselves so that no other force-sensitive being could sense their presence. Kind of like withdrawling into one's self.