Although I will not doubt that he lied to Anakin to help him turn to the Dark Side, I really do think that he enjoyed him as a friend.
In ROTJ, he often referred to Vader as his friend, but more importantly, at the end of ROTS, with Anakin laying all burned up, he comes to his side and puts his hand on his head as if to say, "I'm hear now and will care for you."
Up until his goal is the replace Vader, I believe Palpatine cares...er...sort of, for Anakin. Not a great deal of "Anakin, I love you bestest best friend ever," more of a "Anakin, you sexy *****, kill people for me and I'll give you cookies! The ones with dark chocolate chips..."
But yeah, mostly it was Palpatine earning Anakin's trust to manipulate him further.
Interesting. I think he did, at least initially. By ROTJ, he was looking for a new apprentice, in the form of young Luke. When Vader emerged, he was not what Sidious was expecting. He cared for Anakin, but was truly revolted with Vader. The only thing he liked was that his anger was still intact. Luke would have made a perfect new apprentice. Of course Sidious wanted Luke to kill Vader. Remember, friends, treachery is the way of the Sith
__________________ 'Here are the minions of Mordor...My deadly servants filled with my dark will..Though they may not all reside within the borders of my land, my hand reaches far and in the end they all do my bidding'. Dark Lord Sauron
'They may not even be aware of the dark will that drives them or the influence of the enemy that I too serve...the ancient of evil of which even I... the Great Sauron am but a servant'.
Sauron the Great acknowledges his master, The Dark Lord Valar Melkor
Agreed. Vader came out much less powerful then expected. Luke, with not enough training, soon achieved a great level. He would have become a powerful sith also leia could be turned if luke was. Then palp would have the TWIN KILLERS hehehehe.
Palps did that because he was using the dark side to keep Vader alive. He still felt Vader would be powerful with the suit on and that he would still be useful to keep around.
__________________ "Why do I feel as though we have picked up another pathetic lifeform?"
anyone who thinks that sidious and anakin were 'friends' in ANY sense of the word needs to watch the films a few more times and understand.
from the SECOND anakin found out palps was a sith lord he hated him.
palps only used anakin to gain power and the SECOND he learned of luke,
he planned on having him kill vader. vader joined palps to save his wife and when she dies he was already twisted, so his ONLY motivation from that
point was to take all that power away from his master and keep it for himself
there was no love, no liking, no friendship, not so much as "eeeeh he's ok"
N-O-T-H-I-N-G
Jul 1st, 2005 04:20 AM
also leia could be turned if luke was. Then palp would have the TWIN KILLERS hehehehe.
