The PT continues to infiltrate the culture

Any resemblance between this ice skating duo and Anakin and Padmé is purely coincidental...be sure to click on the photo gallery ;):

http://www.championsonice.com/skaters/bio.php?useid=56

x-posted to padmeanakin

Evil SW characters

The other day, I thought about the damned among the SW pantheon, the baddies who croak unredeemed and unforgiven.  Interestingly, three get their just desserts in ROTJ.  They were all different shades of evil, wicked for different reasons, but evil just the same.

First, let's look at bounty hunter extraordinaire Boba Fett.  He was bad not just because he was an antagonist and made our heroes' lives difficult.  He was bad because he was greedy to the point where morals were no barrier to what he wanted to accomplish.  In other words, he'd do anything, hurt anyone, and kill anybody for money.  When Han is tortured and frozen in carbonite, Fett's concern for his well-being is measured only in monetary value.  His progenitor Jango is pretty much the same way; he doesn't care who he has to kill nor is he ever concerned about the implications of using his genetic material to spawn a clone army.  All he cares about is getting paid. 

Jabba the Hutt is a creature of the id, a being who lives primarily for self -indulgence thanks to his own greed for money.  He kills in part for enjoyment, watching a poor dancing girl die purely for amusement.  He eats constantly, smokes whatever it is in his hookah, and ogles scantily-clad prisoners all day long.  Every day is a party to Jabba, with life and death as his entertainment.  If Jabba was a victim in that movie Seven, he'd be the guy whacked for gluttony.

Darth Maul and General Grievous live to fight and kill.  They don’t question their orders or their own actions; it's all about the enjoyment of watching others die (both have a preference for killing Jedi).  They have no conscience whatsoever.

Count Dooku wins the "it takes one to know one" award when he tells Anakin in ROTS "double the pride, twice the fall."  We don't know the precise reason why Dooku agreed to join the Sith but it can be surmised he's a man of tremendous pride.  As long as nobody else in the galaxy was paying attention to the rules, he wasn't going to either.  As long as everybody else was getting theirs, he was going to get his.  Everything he'd been taught and everything he'd believed in his whole life was cashed out in pursuit of power.  He didn't care a gazillion beings were killed in a phony war for Sith dominance.  He didn't care about his fellow Jedi anymore.  Just give him some cool lightsabers and show him how to zap people, and he's yours.

The worst one of all is of course, Palpatine.  If he's not the devil, he's just about as bad.  Everyone else exists for one reason and that is how they can be used to attain more power for himself. Dominion over others is the only thing that matters to the guy.

What about Vader then?  Well, I'm going to address how he's different in another post.