Palpantine's appearance.....

anyone notice in ep. 5, when addressing vader about having a new enemy, that palpantine was all swollen, as if he had just gone thru 12 rounds with mike tyson? in the rest of his appearances he is normal looking.....whats up with that?

guess the hollogram "lies" a bit about his look, and the fact that GL might have second ideas about what he should look like too, but I cling to the first one since it is a probable excuse 🙂

Maybe he undergoes some injuries??

or the dark side have an affect on him

probably Lucas made the shot and in ROTJ he thought about changing the appearance totally
(cause a woman with chimps-eyes can't be a emperor?)

man...i didnt know palpantine was an ultimate fighter.

UFC champ

Maybe you're right finti, maybe the dark side took a lot out of him...

It's a different actor playing Palpatine in V and VI. That's it.

yo To, thats true but even so.........

just another example of lucas not planning ahead. but hey, star wars kicks @$$ anyway.

Lucas can hide behind the fact that the view we had of the Emp in ESB was a hologram and we never really got a clear picture of the emperor as we did in ROTJ