Is Palpatine Special?

No way I'd take any bet against Darth Sidious, the eternal one.

- But they're saying he's gone, so we have to roll with it. For now.

That said:

- I still don't understand why Palpatine doubled down on pumping himself full of his own force lightning.


Takes a special kind of stupid to think THAT is best way to defeat your grand daughter and all of her Jedi friends.

But I once thought killing a temple full of kids would make me stronger with the dark side, so there's that....

 

'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away'....
20 years after TROS'

Sheev Palpatine in :

 

Is there a difference between "imposing your will upon" & "trying to manipulate" something, or someone? Are those machinations of change mutually inclusive? How many shades of Sith-grey are there? Failure here is like gravity and relativity. He touched all life if I recall correctly.... essentially reaching omnipresence.... I mean, he sensed insects on nameless worlds and when he was finished, Shmi was pregnant without copulation. Wut jus habbened? - Did Plagueis have a specific humanoid in mind? -Is that where he failed? -Plagueis failed to control the force, no doubt. - He certainly failed to dictate the terms of his power grab.... but at the end of the day; a human child was spontaneously conceived.


Accidental? Incidental? Intentional - The Force Striking Back?



Regardless, Plagueis and Sidious working in harmony (uber unnatural) was the impetus for Anakin's creation.

It was written in a manner that allows us to pick our own best answer; at least that's how I've always viewed it.

Once upon a time in a continuity far, far away.... Darth Maul knew about the Sith Experiment.

Anakin's origin has ever been a fluid thing.