Its Sidious that needs to be turned not Palpatine. Palpatine does not exist except in the form the people of naboo percieve him as Senator (former).
Sidious is driven by personal power, and not a principled attachment to the ideals of the Old Republic. Think of him at the Stars Wars version of Caesar, or any number of aspiring presidential hopefuls. As a Sith ideologst sidious cannot be turned.
Frankly, I think the hows and whys of Palpatine are spectacularly irrelevant.
And again... he cannot be turned back. Hell, all Vader actually did was kill someone to save his son- as if that undoes all his evil thoughts and deeds in one moment? All Vader really managed to do was properly achieve his destiny, which gives him a good death and nothing else. And that was, as has been said, the one-off amazing climax-of-the-saga plot twist, and if people start applying this concept to the Dark Side in general they have equally spectacularly missed the point of that.
Again- 100% certain on this. No way back.
Re: Can Palpatine be turned?
Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
Yeah ok I ripped this thread off of TFN, but it's a fairly new concept (I think) and we are getting desperate for spoilers. 😖Does anyone think its possible to turn Palpatine back to the light side? FI so, who would have the power or influence to do it? Was he ever even ON the light side? Assuming he's human he had to have been there to begin with one would think. And whil Im at it, Im wondering just what it was that made him chose the dark side? Discuss...
In a few words, "No, not really no!"
Somebody wondered how old Palps must be.....
According to the Episode1 Encyclopedia (on cd-rom) Palpatine is 50 years old in that episode, so in episode2 he must be 60, in episode3....well....count for yourselves peeps!
In episode 6 he is around 86....and very much a crumpy old Sith-geezer.
Don't think there is any possible way he could be turned, man, the guy rather gets successed by the ones who are going to kill him.
He wasn't born evil I hope....would be weard, force-lightning coming out of his moms ******-hole, while she screamingly gives birth to a molten ET with gleaming yellow eyes!
There is even stated somewhere(book/encyclopedia or something)...he was taken from his parents to be trained by a mysterious person!
The reason that he became a politician we'll find out very soon...actually, we all know!!!!!
Somebody else with thoughts on this?
THX and The force is with us! JM
You guys are getting a we bit pi$$y about this. It was meant to be a discussion not a 'get a clue' thread.
Yes, Sids is the embodiment of evil in the SW world. And all things considered it is highly unlikely that he could be turned back. However, dismissing the concept so quickly is narrow minded.
Wanna use Hitler as an example? OK.... ALOT of people believe had he been admitted to art school he never would have risen to power. Maybe, maybe not. The point is that there was a time where a man that most everyone would consider evil to the core might have avoided leading the world in war & committing such horrible atrocities had circumstances been different.
All opinion with no facts but here is what i feel makes the most sense:
-Palps is human and ages 50-90 throughout the series
-Pals was not born evil but taken as a Sith Aprentice at a young age
-His evil is, but not irreversable, however why switch sides??? to gain something, and palps would have nothing to gain by becoming good, in fact he would have everything to lose!, same goes for Yoda becoming evil, nothing to gain everything to lose.