Talk:Palpatine/@comment-27525272-20190419175114/@comment-1031724-20190424192048

All right, so Palpatine could have staged the whole thing to improve the Republic, but once he became Chancellor, he could have kept it that way and probably either run for re-election once his term was up or made sure the Republic retained its sanity, instead of starting a whole nother war. Also the Jedi aren't evil, as far as they know the Sith are evil, and while Palpatine pretended to Anakin that the Sith and the Jedi were the same, if he really wasn't evil he could have tried to explain to Mace that he was trying to decorrupt the system.

Again, the senseless murder of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, they did nothing against the Empire, they were just there. And unlike the Jedi, he sacrifices his pawns like Count Dooku when they're no longer of use to him.

At best he's like Charles Logan from Season 5 of 24, but I still think he's more sinister than that and evil incarnate in Star Wars.