But I've worked out Palpatine's scheme and it is total genius!
Okay, here it is:
1. Palpatine assassinates the most prominent members of the Jedi council. Yoda escapes but Palpatine manages to pursue his ship. Yoda is forced to crash land on Dagobah and Palpatine leaves him there marooned.
2. Palpatine sets up a group of imposters in the Jedi council's place.
3. The imposters undermine the effectiveness of the Republic's security by sitting around pretending to meditate.
4. They corrupt the young boy Anakin by being total jerks to him, which leads to him becoming a total jerk himself ... making it much easier to persuade him to join the dark side.
5. If any younger Jedi question the imposters about all the strange things that are going on and their apparent lack of concern, Palpatine instructs the imposters to use the following line "The dark side of the force is clouding our vision."
6. Once the Republic is totally weakened by these imposters who undermine everything it once stood for, Palpatine makes his big take over, which we will see very soon in Episode III.
And then that leaves just one last question...
How did he convert Anakin to the Dark Side?
Well, I did some investigations of my own and I've found out that what Palpatine does is actually remarkably simple but like the rest of his plan, is also incredibly cunning...
"You want this, don't you?"
This post has been edited by Just your average movie goer: 12 May 2005 - 07:39 AM