ourladyinshadow-deactivated2023:

People honestly have such a ‘the Rugrats were dead all along’ reading of John Gaius. What’s a better story, that there isn’t a shred of decency in him, that the poor brown man was nefarious all along… or that all his friends who died trying to save him died for nothing; that the very same people who gave him a cape and eyeliner and dug up bodies for him and lied to the cops for him and negotiated for him were ultimately used and manipulated by him and died trying to bring him down? What’s a better story, a corruption arc, a descent, a moral katabasis, or fucking. Less Interesting Palpatine. Because it seems like some of the fans want Less Interesting Palpatine.