
Incidentally, Leia being adopted is public knowledge. Bail and Breha just happened to adopt an infant war orphan just after their heavily pregnant and very close friend Padme died. And said orphan met Palpatine in person multiple times, who would have been able to pick up on her Force sensitivity. At no point did anyone, even Palpatine, ever suspect the Organas were lying because they’re so nice and honest that adopting a war orphan would be extremely in-character and lying about it would be extremely out-of-character.
Did Palpatine ever mistrust a fart and shit himself in public?
It’s a nice parallel but I think it misses its mark. I developed sympathy for Deirdre as her story inevitably became a tragedy.
Really? I thought she got progressively less sympathetic, aside from the domestic abuse scene.
Yeah for sure, I felt that by the end she was so trapped by the way she was raised that she was unable to stop what was clearly bothering her about the massacre on the sewing planet. I feel like she would have had no issue with it at all in S1, but by S3 when she had clearly developed something for the little fascist twerpy dude (not love I guess, but some shared burden/codependence) and serious doubts about her own position in the org chart that she developed a streak of identifiable humanity that was sad to see taken away almost as soon as she gained it. Pam Bondi is the opposite of this.



