Originally posted by Maester_yodaI could say I'm going to kill someone, then do it slowly by tearing off their flesh. The wording of Palpatine's intention and the effects his Lightning had on Luke tells us that his torture-level Lightning was still enough to damage Luke's physiology to the point of death, had he kept it up.
i disagree. palps said he was going to kill him
Page 459 of my OT book says: "... although it would not have seemed possible to Luke, the outpouring of bolts from the Emperor's fingers actually increased in intensity."
Two paragraphs down it says: "Palpatine struggled in the grip of Vader's unfeeling embrace, his hands still shooting bolts of malign energy out in all directions. In his wild flailing, the lightning ripped across the room, tearing into Vader... Palpatine's body, still spewing bolts of light, spun out of control, bouncing back and forth off the sides of the shaft as it fell."
That last one doesn't lend any credence to the thought that Palpatine increased his Lightning's intensity to attack Vader, just that he kept doing it, even as he fell to his death.