General Tagge was the voice of reason, surrounded by a bunch of arrogant Imperial sycophants.

So not only the guy lived through the Clone Wars and most likely saw the jedi use their force powers, but he also knows the sith, and somehow he does believe in the force. He really is the Star Wars equivalent of a flat-earther.

This line is still in the NPR radio version

I remember seeing this for the first time on the gold special edition VHS XD

This Shit Lord will be our undoing

Not Rey Skywalker, not even Rey Palpatine. Its Rey From Nowhere.

Burn Gorman would do a good Admiral Motti

They should have kept that scene

I’m pretty sure if people saw this scene in theaters and heard the word sith because the letters are scrabbled it’s like He said the S Word because of the near deaf

“Without Thrawn, no one will be smart enough to second guess our reliance on super weapons and the leadership of dark wizards” “No, there is another”

…smartest damn man in the room

I always wondered why Sidious would keep the title Sith Lord a secret. At that point he could speak openly about it.

Why add a bunch of cgi crap and goofy unnecessary Nooooos to the originals but forget to add awesome scenes such as this?

"This sith lord will be our undoing" This man had a point and saw ahead of his time

As far as I'm concerned, he actually did say this.

Before his name is even mentioned, in the novel Star Wars, which had George Lucas' name on it as author, though we now know it was ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster, Vader is introduced as a Dark Lord of the Sith. "Two meters tall. Bipedal. Flowing black robes trailing from the figure and a face forever masked by a functional if bizarre black metal breath screen - a Dark Lord of the Sith was an awesome, threatening shape as it strode though the corridors of the rebel ship. Fear followed the footsteps of all the Dark Lords. The cloud of evil which clung tight about this particular one was intense enough to cause hardened Imperial troops to back away, menacing enough to set them muttering nervously among themselves... "

This dialogue makes me think all the moffs here are in charge and the emperor is just a figurehead, sending Darth Vader is was to secretly reinstate him into power.

They cut it in just the right spot.

He had his head turned fully to the right yet there was nobody sitting directly next to him. So who was he talking to?

Something tells me he’s always stressing about anakin

It’s in the opening credits

Filmed with potato

En la novela , sí se nombran a los Señores Oscuros del Sith.

“A Sith…Lord?”

Back when script and actors were actually good.

They also mention the old republic to

So Redlettermedia was actually just wrong.

I really like the way the camera pans and rotates behind the officers and follows Vader and Tarkin marching in.

Rey is just fan fiction.

what a deepfake lmao

Bro was right that "Sith Lord" was the empires undoing

I'm pretty sure "Darth" wasn't even a title, just a first name. That's why Ben calls Vader "Darth". So much was retconned. Basically everything

This deleted scene is better than all Disney Star Wars combined.

The movie got rid of all the good dialogue.

Why could we not have gotten this in the movie?

Never heard the term sith till phantom menace and then it was all downhill from there. Midichlorians, gungans, chosen one

Lucas should've kept this in the movie. It makes Vader even more ominous & enigmatic. If anything, it would've added to Lucas' worldbuilding in ANH.

I have/had a Star Wars story book from around 1978 described Vader as the 'Dark Lord of the Sith'.

These days I honestly think the original is my favorite Star Wars movie

The novelizations also mentioned that the emperor's name was Palpatin, so I knew the "plot twist" back in 1999 when the Pantom Menace came out.

I’d always wondered how far back that term stretched, and it hard to ever take George on his word. It’s nice to have confirmation that it goes back to the beginning.

It is beyond me why they cut something like this...

Where'd you steal this from?

*Big deal*

This looks extremely AI, with the way his forehead and hairline move around.

"This Sith Lord, sent by the Emperor, will be our undoing." In a way he was correct, considering what Vader does to the Emperor a few years later.

Obi-Wan is such a legendary troll

So... it took the Emperor a good 17 years after all that evil shit in Revenge of the Sith to finally get rid of democracy. What was he doing? I feel a Disney mini series coming on.. 'Palpatine - The frustrations of leadership in a large organisation'

Quigon: they killed our pilots, tried to muder us, they look to be preparing for world war 3, and you're cracking jokes? Obi-wan: LOL

those 1970s sideburns 🥰