What exactly was his problem?

What exactly was his problem?
Badmouthing a superior officer doesn't seem smart

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They both did nothing wrong.

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How was that guy skeptical of the force?

There is a hint that Vader has fallen out of favor with the Emperor and also that Vader is not in the chain of command at the beginning of Star Wars. Lucas never followed up on that, and Disney hasn't yet either. Grand Moff Tarkin outranks Vader in the film.

>*is the only guy in the entire empire that didn’t get his copy of the clone wars all season box set in your path*

Pardon my headcanon but it would make sense if, following Anakin's catastrophic injuries, Vader placed him on restricted duty. That said him being higher status in ESB wouldn't make sense since ANH ended in failure for him

vader probably seemed like a walking LARP to the career military officers
a bullshitter pretending to have magic powers who con'd his way to the top, like if rasputin came down to the eastern front and started ordering around the generals

Except everyone knows about Jedi and their powers, they were only holocausted like 20 years earlier.

I think Vader is like the Emperors political representative rather than actually being apart of the Navy

Like SS/Wehrmacht rivalry

I find it strange that not even Tarkin knew that the emperor could use the force, seeing as how he thought Vader was the last force user

>only holocausted like 30 years earlier
Memoryholed. Plus how many jedi are there? It'd be like the US military having widespread knowledge of the crazy 88.

It's basically like this
>go to meeting with higher ups to discuss plans for stopping rebellion forces
>your general starts babbling about some cult shit, saying that the rebellion has some mystical power feild that helps them.
>try to get meeting back on track
>get choked out

Vader isn't a superior officer, he's a religious nut case. Also bear in mind that we the audience know the Force is real because we see it constantly, but there aren't but a few thousand Jedi at their absolute peak, in a galaxy where one ecumenopolis might have 100 trillion beings alone, so the likelihood of actually seeing a Jedi/Sith doing telekinetic shit is extremely small. All he really knows about Vader is that he's part of some dead obscure cult that thought they could do weird shit before the Army exterminated them all in a single night.

In the original film Vader was a mid-level officer kept around as useful muscle. He didn't become the second-in-command of the Empire and Apprentice to the Emperor (who is also a Sith Lord) until ESB retcons

Pretty much this, Darth was his first name, not a title. His official title seems to be lord, which in a monarchy can mean anything.

anyone have the copypasta?

Palpy got his powers partially because he was able to create a sob story of how the jedi beat up an old man, it becomes less of a sob story when everybody and their mother learns that he is also like them, only that he can also shoot lightning and apparently was part of a rival order, in which case more questions pop up since the only other guy who did all that also happened to be the leader of the enemy faction

Vader was technically above them, but unofficially. He wasn't the "Vice President" of the Empire, if that makes sense. To the Imperial Command officers, he was more like the Emperor's creepy cyborg secretary with a license to kill.

He didn't mock the Force as a phenomenon, but as a religion or lifestyle. This guy was probably sick of Force users in general, since he was likely a 20-something officer in the Clone Wars who had to take shit from Jedi.

This is correct. They touch on this in the current Darth Vader comic runs.

>Also bear in mind that we the audience know the Force is real because we see it constantly, but there aren't but a few thousand Jedi at their absolute peak, in a galaxy where one ecumenopolis might have 100 trillion beings alone, so the likelihood of actually seeing a Jedi/Sith doing telekinetic shit is extremely small.
This. For lack of a better comparison, that's like regular Earth humans actually seeing space aliens IRL.

Because at the time, the world building wasn't set yet, and there are hints all throughout the movie that the Empire is significantly old, not 20 years like the prequels established.
Jedi were supposed to be a remnant If a long dead Old Republic

he probably saw tarkin be frank with vader and thought vader was a pussy instead of tarkin having balls bigger than the death stars and vader's respect.