Unlike the Queen, Snuka doesn’t overlook any of the hidden powers of his new toy. Because that would have been far too much of a stretch – Snuka’s the kind of owner who discovers even the most undocumented of features, including those even the designers of something might have been unaware of. That’s just how much the concept of ownership means to him, likely stemming from his depriving* childhood.
And it’s not if this whole thing here wasn’t deeply satisfying to Snuka, on more than one level…it’s just, it brings with it a small element of nagging…irritation? Self-doubt? You know, the feeling you get when you’re doing something you’re really enjoying, so suddenly you are wondering why you didn’t make it your job, and whether that means you’ve simply picked the wrong job. What Snuka is going through is like that, but covering moral alignment in addition to job. >_>
Don’t worry, though, he’s nowhere close to a face-heel turn. He knows the rules, such a turn can only be made in connection with some sort of traumatic loss. You can’t just make such a turn at some random point in time between plot twists based just on something along the lines of “after some consideration, I felt I just might enjoy the other side more, after all.” That would deprive evil of all of its romance…
More on Monday.
* Yeah, not deprived. He wasn’t actually deprived, but only thanks to depriving others. Urchin rules.
It’s only a problem, Snuka, if you start cackling maniacally or telling people their faith in their friends is a weakness. When that happens, seek help. Biff will, I’m sure, smack you around the back of the head for old time’s sake.
Ironically, I think that that “your faith in your friends is yours” was actually one of the least bad things Palpatine said…after all, it’s ultimately just a case of differing assessments of Luke’s friends’ chances of success, and Palpatine had reasons to feel his assessment was more realistic. Many of the other things he said are much more stereotypical “evil”…but the remark about Luke’s friends probably hits different simply because the audience has come to care so deeply about them at that point…
I would argue it’s a contextual thing, rather than a literal thing, but I’m also an old-canonist Star Wars fan and we’ve only known Palpatine for fifteen minutes by that point. Those words are basically the only context I recognize for him.
Every villain believes he’s doing the right thing…
Well, supervillains do, and a lot of real life (mostly political) villains, as well…still, there are fictional villains that have no illusions of righteousness and justify their wrongdoing with nihilism or Darwinism, like classic Professor Moriarity. And many real-life crime lords are of that ilk, as well. They don’t think that drug-running is ‘right’ as such…they just think that if they didn’t do it, somebody else would, so why shouldn’t they rake in that cash?