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The scheming grows to an entertaining crescendo but is ultimately stymied by the editorial requirements; everything needs to be in place for ROTJ so hey... Palpatine was the puppet master all along and everything was going the way he has foreseen it. Call me Sidious cuz I foresaw that shit too!
The pleasures of the volume (and the series in general) are in the small character beats.
"Oh, did we make another friend?"
"That's Luke for ya!"
MVP: Ochi of Bestoon, future killer of Rey's parents, an amoral bumbler whose constant eating of shit while still somehow surviving all his ordeals makes him the funniest guy in the galaxy.
The pleasures of the volume (and the series in general) are in the small character beats.
"Oh, did we make another friend?"
"That's Luke for ya!"
MVP: Ochi of Bestoon, future killer of Rey's parents, an amoral bumbler whose constant eating of shit while still somehow surviving all his ordeals makes him the funniest guy in the galaxy.