FIC: Synergy (9/10)

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Title: Synergy (9/10)
Rating: PG-13
Author: Ziggy Sternenstaub
Warnings: None
Words: approx. 2700 in this part

Comments

[luminations]

Holy crap, Ziggy. I feel like whatever clumsy words I spew out here won't be enough!

So much ugliness in this chapter -- physical-description-wise. Quite fitting. Palpatine's rage against this thing that dares to defy him -- death! -- also quite fitting.

The dragon imagery meshes well with Stover's in RotS (though yours is better!)

I like the Nubian perception of black.

I can see why this chapter would be difficult to write, but for what it's worth I think it's brilliant. How does one who has not died describe the act, or art, of dying?

And I know it's wrong but I feel sorry for Palpatine >.>

PLEASE POST THE LAST CHAPTER VERY SOON :|

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Back! :)

Holy crap, Ziggy. I feel like whatever clumsy words I spew out here won't be enough!

*blushes like the twin suns of Tatooine*

So much ugliness in this chapter -- physical-description-wise. Quite fitting. Palpatine's rage against this thing that dares to defy him -- death! -- also quite fitting.

I think it needed to be ugly so that the reader is confronted with just how terrible a choice Anakin has to make. And Palpatine...Palpatine is so helplessly angry when he's confronted by something that he doesn't understand. That rage is also, I think, part of the reason why he becomes so rigid as the years pass. Instead of being adaptive as he is in the prequels, he becomes increasingly rigid, his methods ossify--and of course he ultimately loses the control he tries so desperately to hold on to.

The dragon imagery meshes well with Stover's in RotS (though yours is better!)

Aww, thanks. I always liked Stover's metaphor, and I wanted to explore more about what it really meant.

I like the Nubian perception of black.I'm glad

[luminations]

Palpatine becomes rigid... hmmm, kinda like the Jedi were. (I know Palpatine and the Emperor are the same person but I tend to separate them in my head...I just like PT Palpatine sooooo much better!)

The fact that he's incapable of growth is one reason I only RP a crack version of him. :)

Thank YOU for your writing! I look forward to MOAR! *naaaag*

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Yes, unfortunately he does come to be a violent mirror image of the passionliness Jedi. Even the self-indulgent decadence that is so oddly endearing in the prequels, the obvious love of art and beauty...these things too vanish. He becomes very sterile.

Your nags haunt my dreams! ;)

[ansketil_rose]

Hum... not necessarily. If one ignores the EU then there is plenty of room for Palpatine passion. He seems pretty happy/crazy in RotJ. How do we know the reason for that isn't the fact that he's spent too long sipping cocktails while supervising art installations at the palace...

I don't think Palpatine becomes rigid so much as stagnates. Let's face it, most old people tend to get set in their ways, and when they have absolutely no opposition, its even worse. I mean, I think we should give the man a break, he spent his whole life in pursuit of power, got it, and then what do you do with yourself? Perhaps you can't be bothered making the effort with people anymore and you wear your comfy favourite old robe outside the house and nobody says you can't.

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I think ridigity is a quality of stagnation, particularly in old age. It's part of his tragedy that once he achieves his goals, all opposition swept away, he has no more reason to be flexible. In fact, I think we're saying the same thing here, so I'll just stop....