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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim': [QB] Newark: The Jedi were caught unprepared by a carefully planned and brilliantly executed domestic conspiracy and as the Sith have a weakness in understanding the value of Jedi selflessness, sacrifice and character (which was how Luke beat Palpatine, by sparing Vader) the Jedi are vulnerable to Sith subterfuge and lack of scruples. Really, Palpatine's campaign and pet project was more successful than even Baron Harkonnen's obliteration of the Atreides in the first Dune-novel. But as the Baron missed Paul Atreides and his pregnant mom, Palpatine missed the Skywalker kids and paid through the nose. Overconfidence was the villain of the piece in both cases. I wouldn't say the Jedi Council as of Ep.I-III was incompetent or overly proud, they simply had trouble adapting to the different threats when being faced with troubles on several fronts at once, orchestrated by someone well-versed in their ways and predicting their behavior at every step of the way, to the point of Anakin's warning delivering the heads (no pun intended) of the Jedi Order to Palps in his own home. Though that part of the movie was heavy for me, I can sort of understand and forgive the Emperor's elation and giggling at the time of facing Yoda; I'd probably be that giddy myself when actually thinking about what a great day [i]this[/i] turned out to be. The fall of the Jedi felt just as inevitably and helplessly effective as those "Twilight Zone" episodes where a guy learns of his future death, does everything he can to avoid it only to find himself in just the spot he'd foreseen [i]because[/i] he'd tried to avert it (usually in the path of a moving truck). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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