Ill-advised emperors: Paul Atreides and Jacen Solo

[deaka]

Looked at Paul of Dune in a bookstore today, and thought, wow, let's not be subtle with milking as much money as we can out of dead author's saga. (Surely if Frank Herbert wanted to write the story of Paul's conversion from godlike saviour to omnipowerful tyrant he would have, I don't know, chosen to set the sequel to Dune straight after it instead

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[archaeologist_d]

I think you are on to something. They both started out trying to do the best for the galaxy and ended up alone, insane and ruthless.

I had to LOL at this:
Of course, this being Star Wars EU, Jacen's fall had to involve epic stupidity and pointless gestures to make it clear Jacen is unmistakably evil, because subtlety and shades of moral grey might be too confusing for the poor readers.

You speak truth!

[deaka]

It's frustrating, because Jacen's fall could have had a lot of poignancy. Instead he dithers for three quarters of the series and is really, really dense. *sigh*