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[Star Wars] Was there anything more to the Emperor's plans to turn Luke?

In the Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars trilogies he notes that the way the Emperor approached Luke always seemed like a glaring flaw in the series, Luke comes to the Emperor's throne room on the Death Star, he tempts Luke with all the power being a Sith could bring him.. and then Luke just isn't interested, no thanks. Luke never really sought power for it's own sake, Anakin was always concerned with strength and status as a result of being a former slave and constantly losing the people in his life because he couldn't protect them (and actually breaking the rules of the Jedi and managing to save Ahoska a few times probably didn't help); but all Luke really had to do was trust the plan and he seemed satisfied to do so for most of the duel with Vader. He had been a soldier in the rebel alliance for years at that point, so he was hardly some guy who would choke up and do something stupid to save a single life like some youngling Order 66 survivor being hunted by the Inquisitors. I think some of the lore has said that the Rebels won in part because Palpatin's battle meditation was unfocused but aside from that by the time Luke is in the throne room the only thing he really manages to do is save his own life, from his perspective (and a Doylist perspective) everything that leads up to the destruction of the Death Star and the death of Vader and Palpatine are totally out of Luke's hands. In a lore sense was there something else going on there other than Palpatine not understanding that he couldn't just wave UNLIMITED POWER!!! in Luke's face and make him turn?
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The Sith don't understand someone not being motivated by power. The plan was to offer power, then threaten his friends, and if it didn't work, kill him. 

If it didn't work, oh well, at least we took out the rebellion. The only hitch was Vader got himself a conscience at the end, and also the rebellion did better than the Emperor predicted.