One of the most interesting things about Scum and Villainy was getting to see Palpatine completely through the eyes of a character who bought into the whole kind, gentle politician who was exhausted by this war (Tan Divo, iirc) instead of seeing him with our own eyes, with the menacing aura of Ian McDiarmid or Ian Abercrombie or Tim Curry.
It's not new, we've seen a lot of propaganda swallowed hook, line, and sinker by a lot of people (Ciena and Thane in Lost Stars or Brendol and Armitage Hux in The Last Jedi, for example) but seeing him without our own view of him was really fascinating to show that, within the universe, Palpatine wasn't this evil figure, but instead someone people truly believed in and trusted. Which makes us remember, whoa, okay, yeah, it's easy for us in the audience to know that he's the Emperor, we're meant to know that from the first time he shows up in The Phantom Menace, but the Jedi and the people of the Republic aren't meant to know that.
It also shows, that by the time of ROTS, the Chancellor's powers were greater than ever (we know he's stayed long past his term limit, there's a couple of mentions of how his "emergency powers" are greater than ever) so no matter how much the Jedi didn't want to put Anakin on the Council or have the Chancellor interfere in their internal affairs, it sounds like they were literally unable to say no. Which is kind of like how the Propaganda book also tells us they were unable to say no about using the clones, that "they had no choice" (I suppose, other than just full scale secesssion, which would not have be good, either).
Because the Jedi don't harp on it and instead get down to work to do what they can as best they can, I think it slips by way too easily that they really didn't have a lot of options in this whole shit show.
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It's not new, we've seen a lot of propaganda swallowed hook, line, and sinker by a lot of people (Ciena and Thane in Lost Stars or Brendol and Armitage Hux in The Last Jedi, for example) but seeing him without our own view of him was really fascinating to show that, within the universe, Palpatine wasn't this evil figure, but instead someone people truly believed in and trusted. Which makes us remember, whoa, okay, yeah, it's easy for us in the audience to know that he's the Emperor, we're meant to know that from the first time he shows up in The Phantom Menace, but the Jedi and the people of the Republic aren't meant to know that.
It also shows, that by the time of ROTS, the Chancellor's powers were greater than ever (we know he's stayed long past his term limit, there's a couple of mentions of how his "emergency powers" are greater than ever) so no matter how much the Jedi didn't want to put Anakin on the Council or have the Chancellor interfere in their internal affairs, it sounds like they were literally unable to say no. Which is kind of like how the Propaganda book also tells us they were unable to say no about using the clones, that "they had no choice" (I suppose, other than just full scale secesssion, which would not have be good, either).
Because the Jedi don't harp on it and instead get down to work to do what they can as best they can, I think it slips by way too easily that they really didn't have a lot of options in this whole shit show.