Still think it just disrupted Palp's ability to hide his true face, whether or not the ugliness was by age or extreme evil... And the way the GL was talking to Ian McDiarmid about playing that part as if the "Chancellor" was a mask and the Chancellor's eyes were like contact lenses that Sidious wears over his, definitely lends heavy credance to this....
I also believe that this was what the freshly unveiled Sidious meant by:
"I cant hold it any longer...Too weak.. Im too weak...."
Originally posted by queeq
Evil all evil...And Sadako, maybe Palpy was just whining, Toshi Station style, to get Anakin to interfere.
Yep... My thoughts exactly...! Just look at Sidious going from whining helpless looking victim mode to slyly watching for Anakins reaction as he starts to stick up for Sidious to Mace... He looks very expectant and in control there.... More so when he gets up and blasts Mace out of the window... He was feigning defeat... totally to prompt Anakin into action against his former master....
And the lacking a lightsabre and appearing as a potential victim tac was repeated in ROTJ too...
Originally posted by Mist
but how would the contact eyes theory work for maul and anakin?
Not how I meant it...
Lucas was talking about the eyes thing as a metaphor for his whole appearance... IE: That the Chancellor Palpatine face/appearance was a mask... And that Sidious was his real face.
And just in case you meant it how I suspect you did, I'd say that Anakin and Maul simply either (A) Lack the ability to cloak their features.
or (B) Dont have to cloak their features.
Palpatine would not be able to pass himself as human on Naboo in his natural alien faced state. To acheive his position as a Senator, he put himself in a position to acheive authority within the Republic. He found a planet on the outskirts of the galaxy and (in his human form of Palpatine), insinuated himself into the local political structure...with the assistance of the rulers of Naboo being young, he was able to force speak his way to a position within the Galactic Senate....it was all down hill from there. Palpatine's face is not melted or injured, the extent of using his dark side power and having it reflected back onto him caused him to drop his physical illusion of humanity...once he had Anakin turned, there was no need for him to continue the illusion. Then all he had to do was tell the stupid Senate that he had been "disfigured" and he did not have to concern himself with the illusion anymore.
"Pooowwerrr.......absolute powwweerrrrr!"
Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
Im sorry to say that Vaapad is EU and has nothing to do with the movies...so i have to disagree 101%
You may disagree, but you also misunderstand. I know Vapaad is in the EU, i have said this myself before, i was agreeing with him that Sidious got his shit kicked.
i think sidious face became what it is after the lightning because it was mace windu he attacked..Mace was a strong jedi with such a knowledge of the Force that he could somehow redirect the effects of the lightning using his Purple Lightsaber to the user itself, thus turning his face all twisted,revealing its evil nature.All hail Mace Windu!! 🙂
it appears to me that Palpatine was just a regular 60 year old. He looks just the same as how Anakin would of looked in 40 years if he were not in the suit.
i dont agree with the whole "he looks normal cos its a mask" idea. If this was the case why not drop the mask as soon as he whips out his sabre.
I think its just a case of he got disfigured by his lightning cos he was so close to it and it was so powerful. And if you look both luke in EPVI and anakin in EPII have smoke coming from them after they've been hit with the lightning.
Originally posted by Mist
but how would the contact eyes theory work for maul and anakin?
They both had total anger. Palpatine had to control his anger to hide from the jedi. When he fizzed his anger out on mace, he just had no reason to fear the jedi. order 66 was held out and he felt he just should reveal himself.