Stash
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Again, you raise interesting concepts.
That said, I wasn't suggesting he would've raised him as an apprentice, or even raised him personally. It seems likely to me that he would've had him raised by someone under his thumb, until he was old enough to become his apprentice.
As for why he saved him, I think he did that simply because he knew Vader would still become the most powerful apprentice possible. I don't think it was genuine compassion.
I do think Palpatine manipulated the dreams about Padme, but not the ones about his mother. Also, I don't think he hired them to take her, as they don't seem like the mercenary types. I could be wrong, but I thought they had a reputation for doing exactly the type of thing they did to her. I thought that's what her husband was saying.
I see Vader as unfulfilled potential. After his defeat, and losing most all of his limbs, I don't think he ever became what they always talked about him becoming.