>"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept awa-"Zzzzzzzzzzzz Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to have boring politics talk in boring grey rooms in a movie about space wizards.
>>218676701To demonstrate that the Empire is authoritarian and does not even bother to keep up the appearance of a legislature. I suppose the irony is that, despite having an Emperor, the Empire actually functions more like a Junta. Tarkin holds enough authority on the Death Star via his office to outright order Vader to release his subordinate. Tarkin also makes the choice to use the Death Star without consulting Sheev.
>>218676701>>218677594>religion that was dominant just 19 years ago>emperor is both religious and state leader (same how UK Kang is head of Anglican church) of this religion>ancient
>>218677707Nobody knows Palpy is a Sith like Vader. He's seen as a nice Chancellor from Naboo that led the Republic during the Clone Wars then barely survived a calculated treason attack from the renegade Jedi Order which left him scarred for life.
>>218677707Taking into account the later movies, that officer appears to conflate all belief in the Force as a single gestalt religion. His accusation is ignorant, not just because the Force is real but because Vader is an apostate to the Jedi Temple. As the other Anon said, Palpatine's official policy is that the Jedi religion is not only false but undesirable and punishable by death.
>>218677862>Nobody knows Palpy is a Sith like Vader. He's seen as a nice Chancellor from NabooThat might be how he's perceived among the general public, but no one who has actually met the Emperor will share that view of him. The men at this meeting are part of the Imperial command and the inner circle, and must know what Palpatine is really like: a blatantly evil space wizard.
>>218676701>who cares about the reason the death star was built or that the tarkin doctrine was about to be enacted across the galaxy, i just want to see spaceship explosions and wooshing laser swords!
>>218681188Anon, surely you can't be this obtuse as to not get why OP worded the post the way he did? Think for a bit.
>>218676701I for one love this scene. It informs us about Tarkin and Vader's characters and informs us about how the empire functions. It really highlights the banality of evil in the empire.
>>218676701Kill all prequelfags
>>218679325When that scene was filmed Palpatine was just some figurehead normal guy Emperor being puppeteered by Tarkin, the idea of him also being a Sith came later on.
desu, that one officer had supreme balls to even talk shit to Vader, I mean shit the Jedi order existed just like 2 decades ago, it's not like it was "ancient order" or history, and that motherfucker who was clearly old enough to be alive when order 66 happened was talking mad fucking shit to Vader right to his face, knowing plain and well that he could kill him without a second thought. Fucking balls man
>>218684898Jedi were fairly rare, relatively speaking. Ten thousand strong in a galaxy with several dozen trillion people. That's a lot of zeroes. Most people that directly encountered them in the Clone Wars era either died or were absorbed into the the Imperial power structure. Keep in mind the Jedi were discreet with their usage of power, like Qui-Gonn with Watto, so even for most people that met or saw a Jedi all they really experienced was a dude in robes and a fancy hilt hanging from their belt that supposedly has super duper mystical powers they never saw any of them use. The most powerful Jedi was a little green dude that limps around on a cane and mostly never left the Jedi Temple in 900 years.I'm not sure it'd be that hard for the public at large to write them off as a cult of con men, especially after an Imperial spin campaign.
I'd love to see a origonal trilogy era movie following Vader and a group of imperial officers crushing a rebel uprising. The empire is way fucking cooler than the rebels imo.
>>218676701uncslop
>>218685203did the republic not have an equivalent of the internet? Surely it would be common knowledge that the jedi had a massive temple on Coruscant, and were capable of doing magical things with the force and that they were generals and leaders in the decades long clone wars, surely there would be some knowledge even if your common person never met or saw a jedi, videos of them doing shit or something on the republicnet
>>218686383Not after 20 years of China-tier Imperial censorship.
it’s just sad watching prequelfags break their minds to try to apply prequel criticisms to the OTJames earl jones could read the phone book and it would sound compelling/badass.
>>218676701Watch Andor it's got rape.
>>218677707>religion that was dominantThe fuck are you talking about? Barely anyone knew jackshit about the force even in the prequels, even if you knew about jedi all you knew was that it was some order of wizard monks on Coruscant and maybe that they talk a lot of mumbojumbo about some cosmic "force" thingy, but you ain't never seen no force userEven if you knew Vader is a wizard that do neat tricks like choke you with telekinesis and shit, he was talking about his voodoo being more powerful than a planet destroying super laser, obviously your reaction would be "the fuck is this retard smoking?"
