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I think it's lame, I think the Legends version where it was just raw training which gradually wielded extraordinary results over 1,000 years was cooler.
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No need to show disrespect to arguments you didn't even read, which is evident as you point out stuff I repeated and cared to explain over and over again why they don't matter at all. I will present the downgrade in the future, if you still don't have the time to read and understand what I say there then I hope you don't just throw disagreement anyway.Matthew Schroeder said:The novel presents not one shred of evidence to support your theory that Palpatine became magically stronger in The Rise of Skywalker. Throughout the whole story he is at his weakest, dying, decaying, on weak, withered body held by life-support systems and alchemy, and he is still described as having "Power unlike anything Kylo Ren had ever seen." when they first meet. And when he drains the Life Force of Ben and Rey's Dyad, he is restoring himself to his peak.
Thread:4001398#318Matthew Schroeder said:So you are arguing from incredulity.
Without that feat he is still the strongest Sith Lord of all time. This point you make legit doesn't matter, it's not that it matters little or works as context for some minor thing, it doesn't matter period, it's just bias for the character.Matthew Schroeder said:Palpatine: Is the strongest Sith Lord of all time.
People: Okay.
Palpatine: Performs a feat stronger than anything done by any other Jedi or Sith in the franchise:
People: WOT
Personally, I find the new interpretation to be better. It explains how a single Sith Lord could cause such an imbalance in the Force - said Sith also contains the accumulated spirits of all past Sith for a thousand years; it gives deeper significance to the Rule of Two, and it explains why Palpatine was so set on attaining an apprentice more powerful than himself in the films, and adds a new layer to his goading Luke to strike him down.Matthew Schroeder said:I think it's lame, I think the Legends version where it was just raw training which gradually wielded extraordinary results over 1,000 years was cooler.
A YouTuber claimed that the novel said Palpatine was weaker even post-dryad, could you find such a quote.Matthew Schroeder said:I have the novel. Ask me anything.
They could still be the same tier as Palpatine. You can be stronger without being so much so that you jump several tiers. We never really saw Palpatine's full destructive power calculated.Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:If TROS Palpatine did grow stronger then ROTS Palpatine, Yoda and Windu would be at least 7-A by upscaling from Vader, unless there's a better feat.
I mean, that could give another reason to scale the Jedi to the Mandalorians' physicals. Then it's not quite cherrypicking anymore.Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:Although I think Hellbeast1 has a point that it's a bit cherrypicking to only scale Jango Fett to the Jedi's speed but not their strength in literally the same scene.