>"Falling...Falling...Falling...down a massive shaft, the betrayal sharp and stinging, a figure high above, black clad and helmeted and shrinking fast. His very own apprentice had turned against him, the way he himself had turned against Plagueis...whose secret to immortality he had stolen.
>"Plageuis had not acted fast enough in his own moment of death. But Sidious, sensing the flickering light in his apprentice, had been ready for years. So the falling, dying Emperor called on all the dark power of the Force to thrust his consciousness far, far away, to a secret place he had been preparing. His body was dead, an empty vessel, long before it found the bottom of the shaft, and his mind jolted to a new awareness in a new body -- a painful one, a temporary one.
>"Although the Emperor had planned on Vader's inevitable betrayal, the moment arrived sooner than expected: "The secret place had not completed its preparations. The transfer was imperfect, and the cloned body wasn't enough. Perhaps Plagueis was having the last laugh after all. Maybe his secret remained secret. Because Palpatine was trapped in a broken, dying form."
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Palpatine was always about cheating death so preparing clone bodies is right up his alley. That the violent and sudden nature of his death meant the transfer was imperfect makes sense.
>But Sidious, sensing the flickering light in his apprentice, had been ready for years. So the falling, dying Emperor called out "AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH MAAHHHDEEEEEEEEEEEK!!"
Isaiah White
Imagine having to write a novel to retcon your entire franchise. What a fucking disaster Disney has created.
Ian Rivera
Why didn't they just make the final villain Plageuis? They could've literally just done this exact same thing except with him oh right box office draw
Jordan Ortiz
>But Sidious, sensing the flickering light in his apprentice, had been ready for years. >"Although the Emperor had planned on Vader's inevitable betrayal, the moment arrived sooner than expected: So then he wasn't ready was he? This whole thing is schlock and is an absolute embarrassment. They can try to explain it all they want but it doesn't change the fact that it's a disgrace to the OT and Anakin's redemption.
Jack Sullivan
>MFW DISNEY IS LITERALLY RELEASING POST RELEASE PATCHES TO A FUCKING MOVIE
