Palpatine's Transformation

Originally posted by neo313
hahahahaha, exactly 😆

all of the quotes from the visual dictionary, the ROTS novel, and now SW insider # 82 state that palps has been masking his appearance for many years

also, the scene where palp's face gets messed up was referred to as "the revelation scene" or something, before the movie came out . Gl said somthing about "the scene where palp's true appearance is revealed". he also said somthing about palps being "much older than you would think". sorry, I don't have any links or exact quotes, but there's enough evidence anyways 😉

the following facts, while debatable, also suggest that palp's face was not "burned" or "scarred":

-Luke was hit with lightning for a much longer time in rotj, and he had no signs of scarring or changes in appearance. although palpatine's body was smoking, luke's was also smoking, yet he had no physical deformities
-in aotc, when obi-wan blocks dooku's lightning, the bolts just disappear, they do not bounce back (palps and mace were right next to each other tho, so this isn't really proof)
-yoda was shot in the face with lightning by palps so powerful that he flew backwards into the wall, but again, he had no physical wounds

one more thing:
palpy's whole story about darth plagueis suggests that palpatine has been using the power he spoke of to prolong his own life. the way he smirks when he speaks of plagueis' apprentice makes it seem like he is recalling the time when he murdered his master and took his power

in conclusion, it seems fairly obvious that palpatine has been using the dark side powers he learned from darth plagueis to grant himself extra long life, and make his appearance seem younger than he really was.
when he is hit with his own lightning, his disguise is dropped and his true appearance is revealed.
he then tells the republic that he was "deformed" by the jedi, in order to explain away his freakish looks, as well as to generate sympathy towards himself and anger toward the jedi.
it makes perfect sense

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Don't be so sure, neo. The power of those quotes is insignificant compared to the power of one George Lucas statement to the contrary, which he has made.

he never said the DAMAGE from the lightening. Why don't you post the quote and the source of it Lazer? Because everyone has posted things to the contrary of what you claim. Post his quote. I'm pretty sure I know which one your talking about and he said the Palpatine starts to look old because of the incident with the lightening, he does not say it is damage FROM the lightening. So post your quote and source like the others have. I mean christ Lazer, in that article we have Ian the freaking Emperor saying that George told him the more human looking Palpatine is really the one "wearing" contacts. If you can't figure it out from there, then you need to go back to high school English.

[QUOTE=3973442]Originally posted by jabbar
[B]When palpatine is "melting" during the duel b/w himslef and windu, he says, quitely, "I'm too weak.... I can't keep it up much longer..." This suggests either of two things:

1) He is being damaged by the lightning and he can't sustain teh lightnning

2) His powers are draining as he is using the full brunt of his force lightning abilities, which is weakening his force induced youthful appearance and stamina

Niether in my opinion, he knew anniken was nearby and wanted him to step over the line, so he acted like he was going to get killed so that Anniken would help him, Which he did in selfish way so he could save his wife (sith way). Sidous was a cunning man seeing how he manipulates everyone in the whole story, so it isn´t a suprise.

uhhhh. it could also imply he's lying. He's said how many things that are complete BS?