12-30-2007, 09:01 PM
Quote:For some reason or another, this conversation has come up no less than six times in the past two weeks with an argument stemming from each encounter (usually between my wife and I). I'm in the 'Emperor was justified' camp and she is in the 'Emperor is pure evil and should die a miserable death' camp. How could I possibly be rooting for the Emperor? Let me explain. . .
Whoa whoa. Time out. You and your wife can talk Star Wars and her response is more than 'that sci-fi movie with Klingons?'. You're a lucky man MEAT.
As for the Emperor... I'm with Jester on this one. You've done a good job at cutting the various pieces apart and justifying them individually. But when you take a step back and look at it, at the end of the day he's an evil wanna-be-tyrant. Now, if everything was chaos and broken before his attempt at unifying an empire, then you might have a stronger position. But as Jester pointed out, the Old Republic seemed to work just fine and dandy before. All in all, he's a man on a mission - an evil mission.
That, and as Occhi pointed out... it's all about the chics man... yeah, the chics.
Cheers,
Munk