A year or so ago, if you'd told me I'd be considering what level of compassion I wanted to extend to Sidious, I'd have laughed in your face. I don't except everyone to draw the line even close to as far as I do.

But I do have to put some thought into where I want to draw it.

[Especially when he's literally cohabitating with Anakin Skywalker.]

I've talked to Savage - have you met him yet? - about some of the ways he was trained under Maul and Dooku. And just that stuff...Yeesh. I have to assume Sidious was much worse.

The older version of Maul got pretty fixated on me being his apprentice. Let's just say I'm glad that never really happened. [Fuel for a number of his actual nightmares.]