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[Jopax]

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Whenever you think it hit peak insanity/hillarity it gets better, the gift that keeps on giving.

[Putnam]

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[Flying Dice]

He wasn't really central though. Could've had a minion do that for him, and have a CG of him toward the end or something.

It was good CG though. I had to really look before concluding that it wasn't a real person.

He really was, though. The movie was about Tarkin's bid for power by seizing control of the Death Star project as much as it was about explaining how the Rebel Alliance got the plans in the first place. Y'know, the reason he's the Imperial big-shot in charge of it back during A New Hope.

[hector13]

He wasn't really central though. Could've had a minion do that for him, and have a CG of him toward the end or something.

It was good CG though. I had to really look before concluding that it wasn't a real person.

He really was, though. The movie was about Tarkin's bid for power by seizing control of the Death Star project as much as it was about explaining how the Rebel Alliance got the plans in the first place. Y'know, the reason he's the Imperial big-shot in charge of it back during A New Hope.

He was critical, but didn't have to be central. He's essentially a galactic leader, he doesn't need to do these things himself. A quick cameo at the end to show he was pulling the strings would suffice.

Heck, he essentially has the leash on Vader in IV.

[hops]

Leash, my cute shapely posterior. Didn't Vader kill him?

[Ultimuh]

Seriously, make a Star Trek thread or something.

[Egan_BW]

Leash, my cute shapely posterior. Didn't Vader kill him?

Nah, Luke did.

[hops]

Leash, my cute shapely posterior. Didn't Vader kill him?

Nah, Luke did.

Well, Vader killed him indirectly by siring the man who would kill Tarkin, then.

[Reelya]

Leash, my cute shapely posterior. Didn't Vader kill him?

Nope to that As stated, Tarkin died when the Death Star blew up. Recall that the fleet commanders on the Death Star were boasting about how the senate had just been abolished and they now had free reign to do anything they like? Think about what that meant for Vader once the fleet commanders were also dead.

In the first movie, Vader is only shown in command of one ship, which is a "vanilla" Star Destroyer. And he's in charge of doing things like hunting down stolen plans and leading assaults on foot or in his personal fighter. That's not the kind of stuff an admiral does. After the Death Star blew up, he's shown acting as a de facto fleet admiral with a fancy flagship, and is finally able to kill his subordinate officers at will, rather than just strangling them "a little". He couldn't actually get away with stuff like that in the first movie.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, Vader's arc from 4 to 5 is that he suddenly has nobody to tell him what to do, so he seizes power by murdering anyone who disagrees.

[Reelya]

And he really did intend that to be anyone who disagrees:

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he planned to kill the emperor himself and take absolute power, but knew he'd need to team up with Luke to pull it off. And this wasn't some static plot point from Vader, it evolved in response to the main plot events such as the abolition of the senate, the death of high command, and Luke's sudden appearance. Which is what makes it all the more interesting. Not every movie series manages to pull it off that the main villain also has his own arc that spans the course of the films. The clear influence for all of this is the fall of the roman republic and the rise of the roman empire, which would make the Emperor analogous to Augustus.

[Tawa]

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Whenever you think it hit peak insanity/hillarity it gets better, the gift that keeps on giving.

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This is art

[Ultimuh]

It's a me!

[IronTomato]

Super UuuU

[martinuzz]

Know that you have farted horribly, when your cat starts making litterbox digging paw movements on your lap