Sometimes the motifs and themes of a setting don't necessarily meet the lore that a setting has, and the the two end up butting heads. Sometimes your fantastical elements can reinforce a theme in a cool way (Amethyst bringing back bad memories by imitating Rose in front of Greg), but sometimes they don't (Garnet telling Steven he can't just be a fusion all the time, despite Garnet literally being a fusion all the time for most of his lifespan). It's a funky balance and sometimes leads to #FridgeLogic where something should've worked lore-wise, but worked against the themes of a show..

Palpatine is really funny because he could've taken over the galaxy if he trained more Sith, but he was such a traditionalist that he just didn't.

Furthermore, a lot of his outsourced work ended up being done by former apprentices that got away from him or died-but-came-back...

Finally, Palpatine definitely knew that he was breaking the Rule of Two by having Snoke train Kylo, but he was probably thinking "well, he's a Kylo, not a Darth, so it doesn't count! Haha!"

#StarWars #RuleOfTwo #Jedi #Sith #FridgeLogic

@ShePersisted They weren't mentioned in the one I heard, either; that's just a bit of #FridgeLogic.

#StarTrek hot take: Sure, maybe Lorca name-dropped Elon Musk in Discovery Season 1 because he's, you know <spoiler>. But think about it. Musk has done more to expose the evils of capitalism and the uselessness of the parasitical rich than anyone else. If society learns the lessons Musk is inadvertently teaching, our Star Trek future might not be so far away! It's like how King George and Louis XVI will go down in history as contributors to the end of monarchy.

#FridgeLogic