@linark said:
No. EU SW top tiers are just stupidly op. I dont even like dark empire for that reason. Grandmaster Luke and Sidious are just stupid, like most manga characters. Both writters are obsessed with having the strongest characters.
And yet again the people who make these comments are people who have never even seen the sources for themselves. I don't know how people can sit here and claim that Sidious is just a stupidly overpowered character written for nothing but power, and yet buy Vitiate, who has just about no character whatsoever (he relies on absence of character for his personality) and is nothing more than a show of power himself... and then there's Nihilus, who is even worse. He literally has no character at all. Palpatine is at least a well-written and appreciable character whose detailed methods of thinking and the way in which he manipulates others around him makes him one of the better characters in SW. People might not like him because of his personality, which is fine, but saying that Palpatine isn't likeable because of his stupidly high level of power and then promoting Nihilus and Vitiate is as laughably hypocritical as it gets. The comparison to manga is also pretty ridiculous, since they're entirely different mediums altogether. This is just a tantrum aimed at the general posters of comments like this, not you specifically, so don't take it too hard.
Some of Palpatine's depictions are probably an attempt to create the most powerful character they can, and perhaps to an extent, Dark Empire is (although Palpatine and his Storms are hardly the highlight for anybody who has actually read them), but I absolutely despise it when people say that Luke is just an attempt to have the most powerful character. Luke is perhaps the most well-developed and well-characterized character in Star Wars, and he's always been intended to be a good, likeable character, not some desperate attempt to have the most powerful character possible. That has never been the highlight in any of his stories, even in the crap-ass Legacy era novels.
Hasn't this thread already been done, though? I'm almost positive it has and that I posted on it.
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