The emperor writes, “How should you be? You should be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds. It stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, How unlucky that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps say instead, How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened and I’m not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have struck anyone, but not many who would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.”
“It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt… Eventually, even stars burn out.” ~ “Star Wars, Episode III. Revenge of the Sith.” Revenge of the Sith, by Matthew Stover and George Lucas, Del Rey Books, 2005, p. 147.
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This was actually from a while ago, but this time in a GIF format!
Vader was going to be extremely powerful, but he ended up losing his arms and legs and became partly a robot. So a lot of his ability to use the Force, a lot of his powers, are curbed at this point because, as a living form, there’s not that much of him left. So his ability to be twice as good as the Emperor disappeared, and now he’s maybe 20% less than the Emperor. That isn’t what the Emperor had in mind. He wanted this super guy, but that got derailed by Obi-Wan.
― George Lucas
It’s interesting what he says, especially since it has nowhere been said that the power of power depends on “the amount of body you have”. Qui-Gon-Jinn makes it clear that the Force is related to the amount of midichlorate. If it were so easy to get rid of them, Vader would not be such a powerful Sith.
And now, inexplicably, something that has basically nothing to do with dinosaurs. Although he has kinda chicken legs, which I think are cool.
Grievous has always been my favorite Star Wars character, at the very least because he has a killer design. I’m also a big fan of the Clone Wars in general (mostly just for the planets and lore, Episodes I & II are stinky) since they’re the ones I grew up with. No disrespect on any of the other movies, I just dig this asthmatic, four-arm-havin, cyborg skeleton.
And I draw him next to never so I thought I’d give him a crack for Inktober.
