Scum and Villiany looks so awesome, I really need to get it soon after Christmas. But anyway!
I had to buy it pretty much right away because of the calendar info and because it wasn't super expensive and it's such a gorgeous book! These books really are so much prettier in person, the physical copies in your hands are always going to outshine any scans on-line!
He may be just another politician, but it’s clear they see it’s strange that he has this interest in Anakin. But like you say they have no proof until it’s far too late
We don't really even know how much they suspected anything untoward, just how far that suspicion went. If nothing else, they don't know that he's the Sith Lord they're searching for until ROTS, so it's pretty safe to say that, while they weren't precisely fans, they didn't have any in-universe knowledge of how genuinely dangerous he was. And the point is very much made that Palpatine was actually very convincing in-universe! He comes across as hammy and super obvious to us, the audience, because Ian McDairmid played him that way, but in-universe? Nobody really knew, except those he revealed himself to.
Oh, that's the other thing! ROTS! They really, intensely did not want to put Anakin on the Council, but they apparently weren't even ALLOWED to say no, once Palpatine put his foot down. They did the only thing they could to object--and because Anakin frankly WAS NOT READY to be a Master--but they still had to do what the Chancellor said!
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Date: 2018-12-07 03:09 am (UTC)I had to buy it pretty much right away because of the calendar info and because it wasn't super expensive and it's such a gorgeous book! These books really are so much prettier in person, the physical copies in your hands are always going to outshine any scans on-line!
He may be just another politician, but it’s clear they see it’s strange that he has this interest in Anakin. But like you say they have no proof until it’s far too late
We don't really even know how much they suspected anything untoward, just how far that suspicion went. If nothing else, they don't know that he's the Sith Lord they're searching for until ROTS, so it's pretty safe to say that, while they weren't precisely fans, they didn't have any in-universe knowledge of how genuinely dangerous he was. And the point is very much made that Palpatine was actually very convincing in-universe! He comes across as hammy and super obvious to us, the audience, because Ian McDairmid played him that way, but in-universe? Nobody really knew, except those he revealed himself to.
Oh, that's the other thing! ROTS! They really, intensely did not want to put Anakin on the Council, but they apparently weren't even ALLOWED to say no, once Palpatine put his foot down. They did the only thing they could to object--and because Anakin frankly WAS NOT READY to be a Master--but they still had to do what the Chancellor said!