Originally posted by palpy_666
I whole heartedly agree.I am getting tired of people downing the Sith and there credibility just because everyone thinks Star Wars is about good triumphing over evil... Star Wars is not about this... Star Wars is about good AND evil (well, what people presume to be good or evil, remember, "good is a point of view..."😉.
In the opening titles of Episode III, it says something very interesting... "There are heroes on BOTH sides. Evil is everywhere." This indeed is profound. One man's good is another man's evil. And so we see that Palpatine is correct in saying "good is a point of view...".
I don't believe Palpatine was lying to Anakin at all. In fact, I believe that, to create a perfect Apprentice, Palpatine used the knowledge he aquired from Plagueis and created Anakin. He used some sort of Sith ritual to impregnate a woman far into the outer rim... so that way the Jedi Order couldn't identify Skywalker as a Force potential. Palpatine wanted his perfect Apprentice to grow up having attachments-- so that way when he was indeed found by the Jedi, it would be much easier to seduce him since he had something to play on-- in this case, Anakin's need for things.
And concerning Plagueis being called "The Wise"... why can't you imagine a Sith being wise? What do you have against the Sith? Do you think they're stupid, moronic, and dumb? I don't think so. Look at the sheer genius of Palpatine executing everything just perfectly over the vast amount of years to gain what he wanted. He fooled the entire Jedi Order, he fooled the Senate, and he fooled the entire Republic. The Sith are indeed very wise and very powerful. Many of you who think Star Wars is ultimately about good triumphing over evil (despite what GL said in some random interview) need to reconsider.
Heroes on both sides just meant there were systems on the seperatist side who honestly believed in their cause, and believed Dooku's line about corruption - not realizing that Dooku and Sidious were just manipulating both sides against the middle to gain power for the Sith; nothing more.
I can't accept the idea that being a Sith makes you wise, from a different point of view. Becoming a Sith and embracing the Dark Side, your life eventually becomes about lusting for power; more you use the Dark Side, the more power you want. That's why it became neccessary to limit the amount of Sith at a time - everyone eventually wants to rule, and would kill their master to do so. That's what helped to undo the Sith a thousand years earlier. Palpatine knows, despite Anakin saying he's doing it for Padme, the Dark Side will fill him so much he won't care anymore about loved ones, and we see how he eventually is compelled to lash out at her, and nearly kill her.