"After he wins a podrace, of course"

@Vilgax00

2 ай бұрын

Lord Darth Jar Jar himself is here.

@zekerton7262

2 ай бұрын

That’s when he got me 😂

@PotatoPrem

2 ай бұрын

No way undead humour is here

@mungofinalfi4480

2 ай бұрын

@@PotatoPrem Yeah, wow, amazing huh.

@Caniac76

2 ай бұрын

Standard Operating Procedure

I think it works out better if we consider Anakin to be more of a sidequest.

@debutriah2854

2 ай бұрын

I thought he was lmao

@DD-zh4by

2 ай бұрын

Or... just admit it's bad.

@cloudmaster182

2 ай бұрын

Well even the movie seems to suggest that Anakin was. Surprise to Palpatine.. but a welcome one. The plagueis novel too. They're trying to maneuver Palpatine to the seat of Chancellor, and Qui Gonn just kinda happens to show up w this force sensitive kid. They learn more about him and the Chosen One thing right before Qui Ginn's death from Dooku who still communicates with members of the Jedi Council I'm ruining the joke but I thinks interesting stuff lmao

@maridiancrest243

2 ай бұрын

Yes had Anakin not existed, Dooku likely would have remained his apprentice.

@AdeptKing

2 ай бұрын

Sort of. I think Palpatine actually wanted Maul to stay alive but then he got axed and Anakin essentially just fell into his hands. He probably thought he hit a lucky break there.

“Is that going to be hard to do?” “Super easy, barely an inconvenience.”

@Nosregni

2 ай бұрын

Taking over the galaxy is TIGHT!

@RealtaoNua

2 ай бұрын

Ahhh.. this takeover is going to be tight!!

@rodrigovillegas2263

2 ай бұрын

Wow, wow, wow, wow…. Wow

@TheRevengeofThemDawgs

2 ай бұрын

"But then it fails! Whoops! Whoopsie!"

@rodrigovillegas2263

2 ай бұрын

Listen, I’m gonna need you to get all the way of my back about the dead younglings

He probably had a PowerPoint presentation too

@BoMwarriorVlog

2 ай бұрын

😂

Palpatine in the Prequel trilogy: Everything is planned as I have correctly foreseen. Palpatine in the Sequel trilogy: Everything is planned as I have wrongly foreseen.

@ReySkywalker2

2 ай бұрын

Not really. The events of the Sequels go exactly according to Palpatines plan up until his very last moment. The Imperial Remnant’s ‘First Order’ was to rebuild, rearm and restart the empire, and they became the First Order, named after that order. The first order destroyed the New Republic, invaded the Galaxy and began the war - destabilising the Galaxy, seizing complete although shaky control of the Galaxy (which was in a near constant state of civil war). Kylo killed Snoke, also part of Palpatines plan, proving himself a worthy replacement vessel for Sidious. After the First Order had control of the Galaxy and the Sith Fleet was complete, the final stage of Palpatines Grand Plan was to merge the First Order with the Sith Eternal, to create the Final Order. The Emperor’s Final Order is the final stage of his plan from the start, to rule a true Sith Empire: each world, and every being living on it, with a planet killing gun to their head. Complete unlimited power over life for every sentient being in the Galaxy.

@starkiller1440

2 ай бұрын

@@ReySkywalker2 Finally someone speaks English. I agree with what you said. But when I say Sequels, I should've meant Originals.

@rlacksgh9673

2 ай бұрын

​@@starkiller1440Palpy in the prequels: Hides from the entire Jedi order, manipulates planets and mega-corps into a war, increases his influence to the point no one can stop him, is an expert fighter. Palpy in the OT: Two battle stations blown up, gets chucked down by his own apprentice. Palpy in the sequels: Announces himself in the Fortnite that it was him all along, drops some bass, loses because two lightsabers.

@justgeneric2876

2 ай бұрын

So that was the story, I can’t say I really understood the grand plan watching the movies.

@starkiller1440

2 ай бұрын

@@rlacksgh9673 Palpatine is getting too senile to run things.

"And after my magic apprentice kills me, I will somehow return"

@MikeDang-pm4co

8 күн бұрын

That’s hella funny😂

Of course Darth Jar Jar is the key to all of it

@droman608

2 ай бұрын

“Mee sa succeed where other Sith failed.” -Darth Jar Jar Poor Maul. 🥺😂🤣

@Cdr2002

2 ай бұрын

Jedi Bob is the only one who can stop him now

@99Gara99

2 ай бұрын

Jar Jar was in charge of getting the kid to join the jedi

@TheThrivingTherapsid

2 ай бұрын

@@droman608 Since Maul got mauled.

Maul: "What the hell is a midichlorian?"

@analothor

2 ай бұрын

Sidious: it's what makes you useful but also what makes you not good enough

@blshouse

2 ай бұрын

It's heroin. - Qui-Gon Jinn, probably

@Statsy10

Ай бұрын

It turns out that midichlorians were mentioned in the original script for Star Wars. Yet everyone feels like it was such a late, tacked-on, ridiculous concept. Wish they were either left out, or mentioned earlier in the movies, but yeah, they were actually an OG idea. 😮

@blshouse

Ай бұрын

@@Statsy10 (X) Doubt If true, it was left out for good reason. Star Wars was a bad movie that was saved by amazing editing. Sadly, the more popular the movies became, the less Lucas was willing, or was able to be forced, to listen and accept edits from other people involved. This is what doomed the prequel trilogy and allowed the late, tacked-on, ridiculous concept of midiclorians.

@Statsy10

Ай бұрын

@@blshouse Although I agree with your take on Lucas not listening to input the further he got into things, I think it's a stretch to say it was a bad movie saved by editing. As for the midichlorians, I saw it on a video about ten things in Star Wars that are older than you think (or a similar title) and I can personally confirm a couple of different entries on that list. Both the back story of Palpatine, and the duel by the side of a river of lava that left Anakin as crispy-fried, legless proto-Vader, are both chronicled in the Return of the Jedi novelization that I read as a kid in 1983. I was shocked to see that particular scene play out in ROTS all those years later, just as I had once read. Therefore, I believe the rest of the list does have some validity.

"He is the phantom menace" is the best line I've ever heard

"Wait, I'm your apprentice" Awkward

@johnlucas2838

2 ай бұрын

"I can have more than one."

@travcollier

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnlucas2838"The rules don't apply to me." -- Every Fascist leader ever

@TheMrPeteChannel

Ай бұрын

"And then you get bisected & fall down a chute but you don't die." Maul: "What?" The Senate: "What?"

@GabrielBoorom

9 күн бұрын

"Yeah, about that... Oh, look at the time! You really should get going to Tatooine..."

@MikeDang-pm4co

8 күн бұрын

Oh! W-well…… AH SCREW IT *LIGHTNING FORCE*

With how dependant Palpatine’s plan was on plot convenience, I’m not entirely convinced he wasn’t just winging it most of the time.

@IARESMART8

2 ай бұрын

That's always been my head canon

@YTPrule

2 ай бұрын

Palpatine has years to plan and many flawed people exist to be corrupted. I bet he didn't count on Maul losing to Obi Wan but so long as he's alive and undiscovered, Palpatine has years to plan again and find backups.

@corruptangel6793

2 ай бұрын

He was. The movies allow you to piece together his actual plan, and then you can see how they go ary, and he has to improvise to keep things on track. For example, in TPM, when the Jedi got involved, he immediately orders the invasion to begin ahead of schedule and the Jedi to be killed. When the Queen disappeared, he revealed Maul's existence and sent him to go get her and take her back to sign the treaty. On Coruscant, he personally tries to convince her, at several points, to accept Federation control. People think he's some omniscient planner, and the plot bends to his whims, when in actuality, he is constantly having to improvise on the fly as the Jedi constantly interfere.

@condedooku9750

2 ай бұрын

@@corruptangel6793 Exactly, his plan is constantly spiraling out of control and he's simultaneously trying to make it work, which it does, until Vader decided to throw him into the reactor of the Second Death Star, then it was checkmate.

@beywheelzhater8930

2 ай бұрын

@@condedooku9750until, somehow, palpy survived

I think Palpatine probably wasn't planning on having Darth Maul be gone. So he had Count Dooku as a temporary apprentice.

@Pigismal

2 ай бұрын

Yeah Palpatine wasn't a big rule of two guy, honestly he had probably hoped to have maul as a personal assassin and Anakin as like a bodyguard

@whitehawk4099

2 ай бұрын

He also wasn't planning for Padme to escape Naboo, or for the Jedi to get involved at all. Palpatine's success is more his abilities to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances than anything else.

@overhaul8207

2 ай бұрын

Palpatine himself stated out of all of his apprentices Darth Maul was the one with the most potential he was actually sad when he died

@Pigismal

2 ай бұрын

@@overhaul8207 I mean besides Anakin obviously but

@fearedjames

2 ай бұрын

Most likely the plan was to keep doing what he did in Phantom Menace. Set up shit himself and use Maul as an enforcer. Then he loses Maul so he gets Dooku as a new apprentice. Then he worries about Dooku, so he replaces him with Anakin in Revenge.

I think my favorite overcomplicated plot point in Star Wars is Padme’s second assassination attempt. Basically, Chancellor Palpatine, told Count Dooku to assassinate a senator, who then told another guy to kill her, who then told another gal to kill her, who then told a flying droid to kill her, who then told a couple worms it pooped out to kill her. And all of this was so that someone could kill the worms at the last second, follow the droid back to the female bounty hunter until she gets killed by a really specific poison dart by the former bounty hunter, which would then be tracked back to a planet that Dooku had erased from the Jedi Archives years prior so that the Jedi could discover the clone army that was ordered by Dooku around the same time, the same army that would act as sleeper agents to genocide the entire Jedi order towards the end of the Clone Wars!

@gergodalanics8922

Ай бұрын

It makes sense though, you're just looking at it backwards. You have to consider the characters motivation, why and how are they doing what they're doing. Palpatine and Dooku just want Padme dead, because she's a major PITA, an obstacle for their plans. They don't care how it's done. The bounty hunters want the money obviously. Fett knows that assassinating a heavily guarded high profile person is risky and hires Zam to do the job, offers her a cut from the money and this way he stays out of sight, minimizing the risk. Zam knows the risks too so she keeps as much distance as possible. The droid and the worms are just basically tools. Fett keeps his eyes on Zam so when things go south he could silence her. Still his best chance since he knows that the origin of the dart is hard to track.

@WhiteRanger1298

Ай бұрын

​@gergodalanics8922 Yup Jango is good at killing Jedi but he's not about to go at a Master and Apprentice in a busy city structure unplanned.

@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood

Ай бұрын

@@gergodalanics8922 Yet, all these events had to come together for the plot of the movie to happen. If the worms killed Padme, the Jedi may not have discovered the clone army. If Obi-Wan missed the droid when he jumped after it, the Jedi may not have discovered the clone army. If Anakin didn’t catch Obi-Wan during his free fall, the Jedi may not have discovered the clone army. If Zam got away, the Jedi may not have discovered the clone army. If Jango Fett shot Zam with a blaster bolt instead of that really specific toxic dart, the Jedi may not have discovered the clone army. Point being, Palpatine was relying on a ton of factors to go his way for his plan to work.

@gergodalanics8922

Ай бұрын

@@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood or he adjusted his plans to the circumstances. When you're planning something big you've got to have more plans for different scenarios

@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood

Ай бұрын

@@gergodalanics8922 So what would his plan have been if the Jedi never discovered the clone army? Would he have stood in front of the Senate and proposed a military creation act with an army that no one else but him had heard about? It sounds more like bad writing to me.

I'd like to imagine if one little thing goes wrong Palps is just running around his office screaming due to how perfectly his plan has to go.

@jasminchristinee

2 ай бұрын

*gets call* "Hello?...WHAT?!...He lost the podrace?...I...I see...I...I don't know...I...I'll call you back once I figured this out..." *hangs up* "F******"

@occam7382

Ай бұрын

Nah. That's happening all the time, actually. His real reaction to something going wrong would be closer to, "This is an unfortunate turn of events... for now."

If this plan succeeds, all hope will be lost! We're gonna need a new one.

@camber_courtney5250

2 ай бұрын

One could say we'll need A New Hope.... 😂😂

@burieddreamer

2 ай бұрын

@@camber_courtney5250 There is another

@MrTimPL

Ай бұрын

Good one! It actually made me smile

Oh for god's sake. PALPATINE HE'S WEARING A WIRE!

@tommykretsos5583

2 ай бұрын

Great Family Guy reference haha.

@tsarfox3462

2 ай бұрын

@@tommykretsos5583 Thanks. Glad you got this.

It's even funnier when you realize that Plagueis was listening in on this conversation in the novel, so when he says "Then I'm going to kill Plagueis, but don't tell him that" it makes it even better

@ruanpingshan

Ай бұрын

My mind was just blown that Plagueis was alive during The Phantom Menace. So there weren't "always two", then.

@autumn702

11 күн бұрын

@@ruanpingshan The rule of two gets broken like a lot in the expanded universe.

“It’s like poetry - extremely convoluted, plot-convenient poetry” - Lorge Gucas

@anxiousearth680

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, the famous creator of the cult classic holo-movie Terra Wars

@GabrielBoorom

9 күн бұрын

"I'm working on my second chin, frankly I think it's my best work." -Gorge Lucas

Darth Sidious:Why you even complaining? You wont be there anyway. Darth Maul: Oh,I dont think so.

@kiirogamesbase5892

2 ай бұрын

*CLONE WARS MAUL INTENSIFIES*

@curtisbrummitt5470

2 ай бұрын

bro typed the loweruppercase I

@hipnofago2102

2 ай бұрын

​@@curtisbrummitt5470 A half I

@Vilgax00

2 ай бұрын

​@@curtisbrummitt5470fixed

@kacperz5683

2 ай бұрын

Maul dies on Naboo.

"How does being thrown into a reactor shaft fit into all this, Master?" "That is the brilliant part of my plan! I returned forty or so years later." "How?" "How? W-what do you mean, how. I just do." "But that's the part of the plan I don't get. How do you return." "...Somehow I returned." "What do you mean, somehow, Master? Somehow how?" "I just do, Darth Maul. Stop questioning my brilliant plan!" Pause "Master...this plan smells like Rancor dung." "I hope you get sliced in half, Darth Maul."

@eptitranxisticementionscers

24 күн бұрын

Didney worl

I think it was a lot simpler than him having planned out the actions of every relevant person in the galaxy. He just engineered a conflict where he was the leader on both sides, so no matter the outcome, he was the winner.

@manishm9478

Ай бұрын

This is actually a really good theory the more I think about it. If Padme's assassination hadn't been thwarted, and the clone army found, Count Dooku would have been able to win with a droid army or even use the clones on his side for a crushing victory

@Kutanamar

Ай бұрын

Exactly! Ep1 - Manufacture a crisis that will get him elected Chancellor. Ep2 - Use his apprentice to rile up a bunch of systems into breaking away from the Republic. This causes the Clone Wars and gives Palps an excuse to create a "Grand Army of the Republic." He knows he'll need said army, once he seizes power, to keep his boot on everyone's neck. Ep3 - Several years of war and devastation have weakened the will of the people to where they'll accept a fascist dictator, if he promises to give everyone peace and security. (Sound familiar?) Not that difficult to follow.

@GabrielBoorom

9 күн бұрын

They never explained why he even cares. It's just "he's greedy and evil, so mu-hahaha, take over the universe!"

It’s Maulin Time

@kannonsircy7748

2 ай бұрын

And then he Mauled all over the place

To be fair palpatines original plan for anakin was to have maul kill obi wan and qui gon before kidnapping him so palpatine would torture/ train him to be his apprentice. But since the jedi accepted him to be trained he knew he couldnt take him without being caught.

@shadowbladesabre1945

2 ай бұрын

He didn't even know of Anakin before the Jedi found him either, he was essentially a side-quest. He was likely planning to keep Maul around until he supposedly died and Anakin showed up. I didn't know he had plans for Anakin after his discovery but before Maul was bisected though!

@bluejay1015

2 ай бұрын

@@shadowbladesabre1945 yeah palpatine had no idea the chosen one even existed until then. He even thought of himself as the siths chosen one

@KeldorDAntrell

Ай бұрын

@@bluejay1015 that's nonsense. Palpatine *created* Anakin so he had to have known about him.

@sabershenanigans

Ай бұрын

@@KeldorDAntrell where do you get that from? I got the hint in Episode III that Darth Plagueis had learned to "influence the midichlorians to create life", meaning Plagueis may well have created Anakin, but I don't recall anything said about Sidious creating Anakin himself.

@bluejay1015

Ай бұрын

@@KeldorDAntrell he didn't know that he created him until he was discovered. There was no confirmation to palpatine or plagueis that the grand experiment even worked at all. If they had known about him then they would know where to find him too.

"Lord Maul, pack your things. I'm sending you to Naboo to aid the Trade Federation in overseeing the occupation." "Forgive me, Master, but... why?" "What?" "Why send me to Naboo?" "I told you, to help oversee the occupa--" "Yes I understand that, but _why?_ The invasion has served its purpose. The only reason you orchestrated it in the first place was to garner the sympathy votes you needed to become Chancellor and... you sort of have that already." "I uh... well... You see..." "Master... is it just so there can be a lightsaber batt--" "It's so there can be a lightsaber battle, yes."

When a plot is as confusing as this, then you know, they were making it up as they went along.

@Valkinsenn

Ай бұрын

"But George had a plan, m'kay!" Right. _Sure_ he did. (Not that I'm endorsing those equally terrible sequels, mind you...)

@sychuan3729

Ай бұрын

The plot isn't confusing, it is clear and straitforward, if you stop inventing your headcanon and simply watch movies

@derekc180

Ай бұрын

@@sychuan3729 Give me a break dude 🙄 lol the storyline is convoluted as hell.

@sychuan3729

Ай бұрын

@@derekc180 No, I don't "give you a break" What was there so convoluted that you didn't manage to comprehend?

@derekc180

Ай бұрын

@@sychuan3729 Its ridiculously complex, the plot and the plan have way too many factors that are dependent on even more variables. Did you not watch the whole video? I love the prequels but the storyline was absurd.

Palpatine sends a man who sends a man who sends a shapeshifter who sends a robot who sends bugs to go kill padme

@TheThrivingTherapsid

2 ай бұрын

As written! - Stilgar

@JKozlovable

2 ай бұрын

Multiple layers of plausible deniability!

@Carabas72

2 ай бұрын

See, it doesn't matter whether the assassination succeeds or not. The entire point is luring a Jedi (doesn't have to be Kenobi) to Kamino, or else the Clone Wars don't happen.

@motomoto4361

Ай бұрын

I read that in Cosmonaut’s voice

@eptitranxisticementionscers

24 күн бұрын

Palpatine told Dooku "just get it done, I don't care how" probably and this is how it ended up happening. Nobody wants to be connected with killing a high level politician. They don't want it to be traced back to them.

"Meesa going to hurt yousa." Maul, if you want to keep your legs potentially & alter history, eliminate Jar Binks! Very funny as always.

I think the movies wanted to imply that Palpatine is devious enough that he manipulates situations such that he will benefit regardless of the outcome, but then forgot to do it.

@skywalkerorder2170

Ай бұрын

That’s exactly what The Phantom Menace did.

@Vendavalez

Ай бұрын

@@skywalkerorder2170 I can see how you cold argue that, but I would argue that, if that is the intention, it is way more subtle than any other important plot point in the series is handled and thus I can only assume that it ended up like that by accident.

@pattersong6637

Ай бұрын

Palpatine expected Darth Maul to win. He was perfectly fine with rolling with Maul's defeat and just forwarding his timetable on recruiting Dooku. Maul's death is a great example of how flexible he was.

@hippieyoda1993

Ай бұрын

@@pattersong6637the only thing that’s flexible is SW fans’ brains with how much they have to stretch this shit to make it work 😂

I can’t tell if it’s better or worse for Palpatine’s plan to be completely mapped out from the get go or just improvised completely out of his ass.

Even as a kid watching Revenge of the Sith, I remember thinking, "Wait, what was the emperor's original plan? There's no way he could have intended every last detail of this to happen as it did."

@sabershenanigans

2 ай бұрын

He didn't have to. As long as he could artificially create a war, the Jedi would be honour-bound to fight to defend the Republic (as he presented it). As soon as the Jedi joined the fight, they were doomed: Order 66 could have been invoked at almost any time and it would have worked. But with Anakin Skywalker involved, Palpatine wanted to hold off until he could persuade Anakin to join him. As soon as he did that, he executed Order 66. The Clone Wars were both a maneuver to gain political power (generate a crisis and then present himself as the only one who can put things right), and a giant galaxy-spanning trap to eliminate the Jedi Order. Not everything had to go exactly right: if the worst came to the worst, he could have just had Anakin killed along with the other Jedi - but he really didn't want to do that, so took several risks to bring him round - which paid off. All that was actually crucial for his original plan to succeed was that he be elected Supreme Chancellor, which he achieved in Episode 1. Everything else is just consolidation and cleanup. The Jedi were doomed at the Naboo peace parade: they just didn't know it.

@KeldorDAntrell

Ай бұрын

@@sabershenanigans the only problem with all that is that the jedi would never get wiped out by clones of Jango Fett. He was good, but he was never good enough to beat a *competent* jedi knight (he wasn't even able to defeat Obi-Wan who is a clown among jedi). The jedi have the force as their ally, and the best non-force-using opponent can never match that. See how easily Windu dispatched Fett? It was a no-contest. My point being that the way Lucas wrote the destruction of the jedi was weak. It was supposed to be that Anakin turned into Vader and then helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the jedi. That would have been plausible. Revenge of the Sith was the film where Lucas really lost the handle on the ball. The ridiculous ease with which each jedi was killed just made no sense at all. Yet when they went for Yoda, he survived by killing the clone troopers *before* they had even attacked. This is noteworthy for two reasons. 1) If Yoda could use the force to attack before the clones did, so could the other jedi. Seeing things before they happen is, so we are told, a jedi trait. 2) Since Chewbacca and the other wookies were not privy to Yoda's foresight, they should have been shocked and outraged at Yoda apparently going mad in a moment and decapitating the friendly trooper.

@sabershenanigans

Ай бұрын

@@KeldorDAntrell I fear you overestimate just how powerful the Jedi are. Obi-Wan is far from "a clown among Jedi", he's literally the only one in the Order to have faced a Sith Lord and won (Yoda fought Dooku to a standstill but didn't actually win). And the Jedi aren't all-powerful: even in Episode I, when Anakin claims that "no-one can kill a Jedi", Qui-Gon all but states outright that that's far from the case. The Jedi are the equivalent of a cross between Shaolin monks and a United Nations peacekeeping force: capable of some very impressive stuff but not invincible and not actually properly equipped for a battlefield situation. And even during Episode II, before the Clone Wars even start, Mace Windu acknowledges that the Jedi connection to the Force has weakened as the Dark Side has grown stronger. Then there's the fact that the clones aren't acting with malice or deception: they're following orders right to the end. Yoda is a Master who happens to focus a LOT on feeling the Force, on sensing connections and empathically understanding events around him: we see him suffering as he senses the deaths of his fellow Jedi. And as for the Wookies? Watch the scene again: the clones point their weapons directly at Yoda before he moves (having guessed what's coming from his sensing what happened to his friends in the Order just seconds ago). He's not just going from, "I can trust these clones no matter what" to "they're going to kill me, I must act" - he's been suspicious about the army's origins since he found out about them, and he's able to put the pieces together before the order comes through to his group. And the clones themselves? Sure Jango Fett on his own wasn't good enough to take down a top-level Jedi in one-on-one combat (although he smoked a less-skilled Jedi effortlessly in the Geonosian arena, and might have escaped Windu if his jetpack hadn't malfunctioned - look closely and you see it misfire just before Mace Windu gets to him), but thousands of versions of him, armed to the teeth and with an outright extermination order? Maybe you're unfamiliar with military strategy, but when you have tremendous numbers of highly-trained fighters on one side, all armed with ranged weapons, and with a massive dose of the element of surprise, and just one or two guys on the other side, armed with a melee weapon and some mystical powers, only one side is winning that. Even Yoda and Obi-Wan had to run away rather than take on the thousands of troops they were stationed with. Let's not forget that nearly two hundred Jedi died on Geonosis to droids armed with blasters - droids! And if it hadn't been for Yoda and the clones, those droids could have taken out the remaining twenty or so in seconds. Numbers and weapons mean a lot in war, and Sidious knew this. The Force isn't a perfect system of attaining godlike power: it's something the Jedi train very hard to tap into just a miniscule fraction of its power. To see things before they happen, there generally has to be some level of clear intent or objective truth to tap into. When the clones turn on the Jedi, their thoughts probably barely change: one moment they're fighting the enemies of the Republic as defined by their Supreme Commander, the next they're... still fighting the enemies of the Republic as defined by their Supreme Commander. Most of those Jedi died without ever knowing what had happened. The ones who were strong enough in the Force to see it coming had time to draw their sabers... and were then cut down in short order, because there's a limit to what you can do with a lightsaber against thousands of enemies armed with blasters. (Consider that in Episode I, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan hide and run to avoid taking on the droid army - precisely because they know their limits in that regard). The Jedi aren't your perfect power-fantasy. They're a flawed organisation (flawed in the sense of being institutionally dogmatic, arrogant and complacent), made up of powerful, but not ALL-powerful, individuals. And those individuals can die.

@Kutanamar

Ай бұрын

@@sabershenanigans The Clone Wars were also an excuse for him to put in place his "Grand Army of the Republic." He knew he'd need this muscle to keep the systems in line, once he went full fascist. Before the Clone Wars, the Republic didn't need its own army, but the "Empire" would. You need goons, if you're going to keep the people oppressed.

@eptitranxisticementionscers

24 күн бұрын

​@@sabershenanigansthis guy gets it. That is exactly what happens over the course of those three movies.

Empire Strikes Back is 44 today.

It's too bad the movies never once showed us this Darth plagueis the Wise.

@adamcade604

2 ай бұрын

In the movies it's suggested that he killed him before the phantom menace

@alutra

2 ай бұрын

​@adamcade604 In the amazing Lucas approved pre-disney book Darth Plagueis, Plagueis is alive most of the way through the events of Phantom Menace.

@InfernosReaper

2 ай бұрын

I honestly thought Darth Plagueis was going to turn out to be someone Palpatine made up just to sell the Darkside thing to Anakin. It makes more sense that way Similarly, Han spouting that line about the Kessel run in 12 Parsecs quote works a lot better if it's just a line to gauge how much the potential clients know really about space travel so he can figure out how much he can get away with charging them. A good salesman needs to be able to assess his marks, er, customers.

@lyntonfleming

2 ай бұрын

@@InfernosReaper Han Solo took lessons from the mechanic who tells you that your carburetor isn't turning over properly and needs a new belt to stop the induction manifold from collapsing.

@InfernosReaper

2 ай бұрын

@@lyntonfleming Yeah, exactly, but instead some idiots tried to make his statement correct in the EU and then that one movie... such a waste...

Palpy arranged for Naboo to be blockaded so that he could get sympathy from the Senate and be elected as Chancellor, he didn't really care about the treaty beyond tying up loose ends with the Trade Federation so he could use their resources later.

@theuncalledfor

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, the way I see it, Palpatine was just really good at figuring out how to use most of the outcomes in his favour, even when things went off-script.

@fledgling5616

2 ай бұрын

That’s how the real world works too…

"I may have gone too far in a few places."

“And I would have gotten away with it, too … if it wasn’t for you meddlesome kids!”

Maul is right Jar Jar is the phantom menace we've been blind to this for 25 years now but now Sidious has opened our eyes

@ASingleSpaghetti

2 ай бұрын

Bravo Vince!

Tbh, the prequels would have been better if Palpatine had to struggle a bit to get to Chancellor. Not in the sense that he almost didn't, but seeing him deal with what should be setbacks and turning them into advantages at every turn would have done a much greater job at selling his political capabilities.

To be fair, at least 70% percent of all of this was improvised by Palpatine. I'm gonna say Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan surviving and getting off Naboo with Padmé was a fluke, which is why he sent Maul. But he turned it around by using Padmé for the vote. Maul dead? Get a replacement in Dooku, since he was already falling to the dark side, and start grooming the kid you feel is obviously strong in the force, like Maul was. Clone Army discovered? That's fine, Dooku is a middle man, so any blame is gonna fall on him. Fucking Clovis investigating the Banking Clan? Why, quickly send in Dooku to secure the whole thing.

@mateuszslawinski1990

2 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder how did his original plan looked like, with two Jedi either killed or simply not getting involved and queen captured.

@codemancz798

2 ай бұрын

@@mateuszslawinski1990 I think he was going to get Padmé to sign the treaty and then use the failure of Valorum to save his planet from conquest as precedent against him anyway.

@Riftrender

2 ай бұрын

@@mateuszslawinski1990 Why do any of this when you can just zerg rush the republic with an endless army of droids before they get an army? Which was Malak's plan and it only failed because Revan got amnesia, and how was he supposed to plan for that?

@YTPrule

2 ай бұрын

​@Riftrender Oppressive takeover would get much more rebellion. The CIS also didn't want to take over, they just wanted to exit the Republic. People would also rush to develop local resistance movements like the Rebellion if they heard a big army was attacking and there was no trusted military force to defend them. Palpatine is also big on corrupting people. Corrupting the Republic into the Empire is also his style. Everything that used to be the Republic loving him and willingly bowing before him.

@codemancz798

2 ай бұрын

@@Riftrender As YTPrule said, aggressive takeover would generate too much rebellion. He needed to be seen as a protector of the people to be taken seriously.

This is hilarious in the context Sidious had everything planned out in advance. Story wise Sidious had goals he wanted and a rough outline of what needed to happen but nothing beyond that. Destabilize the galactic republic by pitting them against the trade federation using the existing animosity between planets, take power as leader of one side of the war, prep a clone army with a trigger word in secret for the republic to use against the Separatist and finally use the events of the war to corrupt the Jedi and enforce distrust against them among the public to justify the whole thing. Most of the plot we see in the movies isn’t part of Palpatine’s plan but things going off script he was just skilled and patient enough to turn those moments to his benefit. He has schemes on top of schemes to achieve his goals if one or two of them fall through than it’s no big deal.

Lord Jar Jar was the biggest fish all along

@GalakStari

2 ай бұрын

B-B-But Master Qui-Gon said there’s *always* a bigger fish!

@niepodam4847

2 ай бұрын

@@GalakStari Only a Sith deals in absolutes

I assumed he hadn't planned everything but was being opportunistic and had various contingencies in place... or he was just using Sith powers to foresee everything.

It's not that he's a great seer or anything, he's just great at winging things and having a bunch of back up plans, in case something went wrong, because there were things that did not go according to plan.

Tony Stark: Not a great plan

lmao, your Maul impression is perfect! and Palpatine as always, perfectly hilarious! please do more Maul! 👏

I was rolling on the floor when Maul was mute immediately after Sidious implied he only had 3 quotes LMAO

It all makes sense now, jar jar truly is the key to everything

I'm amazed that people think this movie was confusing.

@eptitranxisticementionscers

24 күн бұрын

Just the brainless RedLetterMedia and CosmonautVarietyHour prequel haters.

Another masterpiece

Hot take but personally my own head cannon is palpatine was just making it up as he went along, I mean he was behind the trade federations invasion of Naboo but then darth mauls “death” was a freak accident and he was actually planning on using him which caused him to turn to dooku as a place holder until anakin was old enough (17 year gap btw) and everything that happens including his control over the banks and emergency powers was just stuff he made up along the way kinda why all this took him 40 years to do only to be thrown down an elevator shaft

Jar Jar is the key to all of this...

“Either way, you win”

Darth Jar Jar disagrees, Palpatine was the apprentice while he was the master

"This is just the beginning.." Like he is describing his crazy diamond bank heist scheme lmao

Hah, amusing. Honestly I think his plot works a lot better if you assume he's mostly just ad libbing stuff on the spot and only really planned the broad strokes. So he's adapting the plan in real time as things go wrong or less right than he'd like. It's fine if pieces fail because he sets up win win situations as much as possible and nudges the rest along as best he can.

I want an extended version.

Talking for real: it's amazing how it gets over many fans heads how flexible Palpatine was with his plans. Most of his intrigues were orchestrated so that no matter the result he gets what he wants. Treaty of Naboo is signed? You have a headstart for CIS! Padme dies in an assassination? Use her as a martyr to create an army! CIS wins clone wars? They just become a new Empire! Anakin doesn't come to the rescue? Just kill Windu lmao

@allthenewsordeath5772

2 ай бұрын

I mean, Windu would’ve won that fight if he hadn’t gotten his pimp hand cut off by the youngling slayer 9000.

@TheTb2364

2 ай бұрын

@@allthenewsordeath5772 you really think Palpatine wasn't just playing helpless? Notice how quickly he bounces back from "I'm so weak!" to "Unlimited power!".

@sirpepeofhousekek6741

2 күн бұрын

Wait if Padme dies then why would Anakin turn to the Dark Side?

@TheTb2364

2 күн бұрын

@@sirpepeofhousekek6741 simple, you just then push the angle of not being appreciated by the jedi enough, maybe blame them for her death or something, depending on the circumstances.

It’s jar jar he’s the phantom menace

Im not joking when i say this i would pay serious money for every mainline Star Wars movie with this dude voicing every character.

I love your impressions! So full of life and spot on!!

its amazing how assumptious and based on chance sidious's plan actually was and still pretty much having it go off without a hitch.

Well, sidious and plaguis only learned about anakin after he was brought to coruscant...

The running gag with Maul is immaculate

The Padme joke💀😈

Palpatine did not know about Jedi interfering with Trade Federation plans. Which is why he was so quick to pressure Neimodians into invasion before Jedi could force the issue out of his control. Palpatine wanted to manufacture a chrisis to 1) demonstrate everyone how weak Valorum's leadership and galactic security was, and 2) collect sympathy votes to prepare for his own bid for chancellorship. Queen was never supposed to escape and not sign the treaty, she and Naboo entire was supposed to be a martyr while Palpatine could play the hero in Coruscant. But Palpatine was able to adapt to the situation. Eventually, Queen's own plea to the senate was much more effective than Palpatine realized. Anakin was neither something Palpatine foresaw or expected, and only noticed after the Battle of Naboo as potential future asset. Phantom Menace is Palpatine essentially adapting his plan on the fly after the treaty plan failed.

@sabershenanigans

2 ай бұрын

I think when you look at the Prequels, it becomes increasingly clear that Palpatine basically won as soon as he became Supreme Chancellor. Everything else follows from there. Exactly HOW he becomes Supreme Chancellor doesn't matter: so long as he wins the vote. So his plan isn't really contingent on much: he just needs Chancellor Valorum to be voted out and him to win the job. That's it. Whether the Queen of Naboo lives or dies, whether they visit Tatooine, whether Anakin is discovered or not - all of that matters not at all to his overall plan. Of course, as soon as he meets Anakin Skywalker, he's open to a side-quest to get the most powerful Force-user on his side, and he jumps at the chance, befriending him early on and grooming him to reject Jedi philosophy (which, to be fair, is very dogmatic and deeply flawed in itself). Palpatine is a mastermind, and that means adapting to new developments and opportunities as they occur.

How would Maul have reacted to him revealing that Obi Wan would cut him in half on Naboo?

I feel like he improvised the JarJar situation

Ending it with JarJar was perfect.

“So…we’re all actors on a stage…and George Lucas is writing our dialogue…?” “Your three lines are up.”

Haha this was good, l really needed a good laugh today. I like your Darth Maul impression btw.

When I watched these movies and tried to work out what the evil masterplan actually was, I always assumed that Palpatine didn't sweat any details. "-But lord, if you tell the trade federations to kill the jedis, won't that upset your plan, if they, you know ... succeed? -What, those bozos? No, they'll fail, the jedis will escape and get back to the Senate with the news. -How master? How will they escape? -How should I know? They'll stumble on a forgotten fighter ship or get accidentally swallowed by a big fish or something. They'll use the Force." Palpatine sets up a lot of moving pieces, where the general idea is to play all sides against each other, get a civil war going, and get the jedi order deeply involved in that warfare. Talanted but sketchy kid? - Cultivate him, he might come in useful. Who are going to be actually fighting this war, since the galaxy has been at peace for a millennium? - Well, the droid makers can probably whip something up, and ... you know what, might as well place an order for a big batch of drone soldiers; use that talented bounty hunter we picked up last year. As any good force user he relies on his precognitive intuition to maneuver all the moving pieces successfully, but he's working with moving political parts rather than an asteroid belt. Still a very funny video, Cheers

This plan is almost as convoluted as Dark Knight Rises.

Anakin wasn't created by Palpatine and Plagueis, he was created by the force. They didn't even know about him until Palpatine had already met Anakin on Coruscant. If you want to ignore the novels and just go by the movies, Qui-Gon tells the Jedi Council that he believes that Anakin may have been conceived by the Force. Mace then confirms that belief would indicate that he is the chosen one that would bring balance to the Force. Lucas has confirmed that the prophecy was true and that Anakin was the chosen one. This would then also confirm that he was indeed conceived by the Force. The only evidence otherwise is that there was an original idea for Sidious/Plagueis to be involved, but it wasn't used. Then in Episode 3, Palpatine alludes to the ability to manipulate the Force into creating life, but there's no evidence that he or Plagueis actually succeeded in this.

I'm just glad for the Plagueis reference.

As you foresaw............ Muad'Dib!

"And that's how we become Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace."

This made me laugh my butt off! Thanks! Love Mauls lines, especially the original :)

Jar Jar being the phantom menace makes so much sense

"There's always a bigger fish..."

Your Darth Maul and Sidious voice are amazing

I love the calm voice you used for Maul

Palpatine really explaining the script to his story for world domination

Ironically enough this is probably how Maul canonically knew that Palatine was after Anakin in Clone Wars

"The Revenge of The Sith will come after The Attack of The Clones" "He's The Phantom Menace" The name drops- I can't 😭💀

Darth maul found out about DARTH JAR JAR

We will be there when you hit 100k

well played sir...well played...👏👏👏

Yes, the script for all 3 prequels was written by an eight-year-old.

Ok so I get its a long running thing of people not paying attention to the film but: Palpatines plan was not to get Padme to start a vote of no confidence. The plan was that she would be forced to sign a treaty to say the war is legal (and thus the trade federation cant have shit done to them). This makes the counciller look like a useless shithead, and gives favour to Palpatine based on him being from Naboo, which then lets him become Councillor as planned. Everything else that happens in Phantom Menace is him trying to salvage a win out of the situation. There is absolutely no implication at any point in the prequels that he planned everything that happens to a T, outside the implication that Palpatine fathered Anakin in Revenge of the Sith in the original draft. Which tbf, was cut out of the film and makes basically no sense anyway. It makes far, far more sense that Palpatine simply saw the super kid and took advantage of the situation. Jar Jar doesn't need to specifically be the one who gives him emergency powers. And regardless if you think that plotlines absurd, its literally a direct reference to the Nazis and that literally happened. The plan is literally, manipulate a situation in order to get power by highlighting how bought by the corporations Valorum is. Lead that crisis into a later civil war and use contacts to provide the means to defeat the civil war, and justify the conflict to give self emergency powers. Make the jedi spread out across the galaxy as generals to this army, then use said army to wipe out the Jedi once the problem is dealt with and justify taking over the Republic by saying they tried to assassinate Palps. Or possibly just leak that info to someone like Anakin so they try to assassinate him and rely on being a badass to survive. It is a direct reference to the Nazis, Julius Caesers takover of the Roman Republic, and a little original stuff for the setting.

Extremely well written!

Honestly, it reflects a lot better on Sidious if he just winged it the entire time and completely succeeded than if he had a convoluted plan that just so happened to work perfectly. In the first case, he's a master of seizing opportunities and taking action, and in the second he's some nerd with a plot-armored plan.

Honestly this scene in the movie, to me, is actually one of those scenes that was created just for the previews. Also, every single star wars movie to me feels like, a whole lot was cut out in between scenes, like they should all be six hours long each

The thing is everything doesn't actually go to Palpatines plan, he was just really good at rolling with the punches and having backup plans.

All that for one line...and totally worth it! 😁😂

So he's the Phantom Menance. I loved that.

I still wonder why Dooku spilled the beans to Obi-Wan.

He didn't know about Anakin until Qui-Gon brought him to Couresant

@ViltheedArgorrible

2 ай бұрын

Nope, the EU says he did know Anakin existed and both he and Darth Plagueis created Anakin. Because this was an attempt to explain why Anakin is Space Jesus.

@TheEgoAndItsPwn

2 ай бұрын

@@ViltheedArgorrible The force created anakin as a response to their meddling with midichlorians

“If I explain a fairly realistic plot about geopolitical manipulation with a silly voice, it means the plot doesn’t make sense!”

Sifo-Dyas being Sideous? That's something! 🤔

Good plans are flexible plans

This needs a line where Palpatine says, "And then Dooku becomes my apprentice." Maul repeats his line, "But I thought I was your apprentice."