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Well put. He's a really well written character and the performance brings it home to a tee. I would actually like to see more character depth brought in, cause it does raise the question of what his deal is, what's he like off work? There's a one dimensionality that works fine for what he serves ploy wise and humanizing the space nazi too much isn't the best but I would like to know his personal motivation. What's getting him up every day so he csn be the best damn space nazi he can be? Cause he doesn't seem like a true believer cause he's too detached from any fanaticism, he can't just be there for the paycheck cause he's working too hard for that. Maybe not exploring that angle makes him too perfect a space nazi as well, he can't be shown to be competent and correct (situationally) when he'd fundamentally pursuing incompetent and incorrect goals. Really that kinda applies to every but Syril as far as the bad guys go. I think you can explore a character without making them sympathetic
Partagaz is under Wullf Yularen anyway, he is just another cog in the machine. I guess he was employed in the republic's intelligence services and just kept working for that government post name change.
people like this don't become someone else outside of work. their job is who they are at a fundamental level. they are not a fanatic in the sense that they are close minded or slaves to orthodoxy of process, but they are committed to the cause whole heartedly and want to serve the mission.
I think he is probably similar to Meero: raised by the system/orphaned even possibly, no strong familial ties independent of the State and it's institutions.
probably recognized at an early age as having a strategic mind and directed into the most prestigious of vocations: administration of security and public safety.
people who rise high in careers with narrow, focused ladders can not conceive of stepping off them, no matter how suffocating their role is. they can only ascend in the hopes of having more autonomy (re: power). they maneuver up by out-playing their cohort. I can only imagine this is magnified in an institution selecting people for strategic thinking and counter intelligence.
"after" work, Pedergast, if not called to a late meeting, goes home to a quiet dinner for one, reads executive summary reports in a comfortable chair, ponders their value, performs a grooming ritual while inventorying his uniforms, and turns in early. he gets plenty of rest every night.
the guy is an extremely intelligent and dangerous machine. like Meero will become as he gently, but dispassionately mentors her as he would any junior intelligence officer displaying critical analysis skills and initiative.
I can see him reading manuscripts on strategy, history, or philosophical writings to wind down.
“We are healthcare providers. We treat sickness. We identify symptoms. We locate germs whether they arise from within or have come from the outside. The longer we wait to identify a disorder, the harder it is to treat the disease.”
This doesn’t sound to me like the language of someone who lacks fanaticism or true belief.
He was at work and trying to motivate his synchopantic staff. If he is a true fanatic, why? And what led to his approach being so different? Its been shown the empire doesn't promote on merit already, so it's either giving the empire some credit to keep him one dimensional or give him some vulnerability
I suspect that, like Tarkin and Yularen, he’s probably somebody who was already effectively doing the same job for the “republic” throughout the clone wars. I’d imagine most people in positions like that see their work stamping out rebel activity at the behest of Emperor Palpatine to be a direct continuation of their work stamping out separatist activity at the behest of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. In many cases they’re still going after the same people.
No piece of star wars media should assume I've seen anything but the movies. Tarkin is just some officer guy that saved a purpose in the first movie to me and I do t know who the other guy is. I did read on wooliepedia thar Tarkin was banging the storm trooper that Han or Luke murdered and impersonated.
Yularen was in first season of Andor. He’s the ISB colonel with the white hair and mustache that Dedra reports to after the heist. He’s also one of the people in the Death Star scenes with Tarkin and Vader in the first Star Wars movie. Krennic name drops both of them during the secret meeting in the first episode of Andor s02, but they’re all mostly just background imperial functionaries in the movies where the focus is more on the magic space wizards.
If you watch a billion hours of the cartoon you get some background about what they were up to 15 years or so before this show during the prequel trilogy era (spoiler: pretty much the same thing they’re doing now but with Jedi help), but it’s nothing plot critical. Andor does a great job of characterizing the generic imperial office workers and middle managers, and they’re all broadly the same type of guy. Partagaz only really stands out because Anton Lesser gives such a good performance.