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whats the deal, what happens between senator palpatine and sidious, does he have a mask or something, one minute normal looking old guy the next like some monster

i'll just say goodbye now while i have the chance

Oh man, only the bazillionth thread on this topic. I suggest you run before the flames come in. There's a bunch of other threads with the same question in 'em.

The depths of the dark forces have that effect. But it is likely to be explained more fully in episode III.

I suggest you go to this thread and use the search button in the future before starting a thread:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f38/t330172.html

Originally posted by ArthasKnight
Oh man, only the bazillionth thread on this topic.


At least.

To infinity and beyond

what does it matter? Just answer his question and the thread will vanish.

because there are tons of threads on this topic.

Nobody likes to answer the same question a bazillion times.

fair enough (or fairy muff as I like to say)

Originally posted by jaden101
i'll just say goodbye now while i have the chance

What, you think someone is going to banned for asking a question reptetively?

*buzzer sounds*

Nein.

At least direct them to a current, popular thread on the topic...

Word on the street is that Mace beats up Palpatine somehow...

evil, evil turns him bad, thats how....

he's been deformed the whole time, masking his appearence

no, hes not "masking" it....lol, its when he uses the darkside it goes to the grey mangled face. i think it will be progressive through the movie. the more he uses the darkside, the more evil he will look.

yeah something like the Hulk...the more angry he is, the bigger he is...
with palp it's basically the same...the more evil he is...the more uglier he is...lol

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
no, hes not "masking" it....lol,

'lol' huh? this post is going to look pretty funny when may 19th rolls around and im proven right. he is older than dirt and the dark side has kept him alive and shrouded his true appearance.

well he is sorta masking it...he will get a lot uglier when he uses the dark side. He masks his face and his Force sensitivity. The first moment he uses it, you'll see him transform like we know him from ep VI..kinda

PVS, will you give up the Sideous is older than dirt theory. It's NOT going to happen pal.

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
PVS, will you give up the Sideous is older than dirt theory. It's NOT going to happen pal.

Actually I happen to agree with PVS on this one...for the most part.

I think he is older than he appears to be.

There could be validity, I think, as well. We'll see when the movie comes out, or the question is officially answered.

tanning on mustafar is my theory.

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
PVS, will you give up the Sideous is older than dirt theory. It's NOT going to happen pal.

pablo says he wasnt 1000 years old.
he didnt say he was at a natural age

1000 years old?

I remember for some messed up reason I was working it out after finding Palpatine's birth on some really accurate timeline somewhere...

He was in his 90's by ROTJ, or something.

Episode1=50
Episode2=60
Episode3=63
Episode4=82(not on screen)
Episode5=85
Episode6=86

Palp's age through the movies (according to the Visual Dictionary to Episode1 on Cd-ROM he's 50 there)...so start counting.

And for the answer to this thread> Start using the search-button!!!!

i know....this one's gotten so boring by now....discussed so many times, and never a conclusive answer....i've heard all the theories so many times it's ridiculous....it just goes round in the same tiresome circle, over and over....

it says palpatine's 50....it doesn't say anything about sidious does it?....and i'm not saying they're different people here by the way....

OH wait his face changes while reading posts by Darth Feytal

Originally posted by guiro72
i know....this one's gotten so boring by now....discussed so many times, and never a conclusive answer....i've heard all the theories so many times it's ridiculous....it just goes round in the same tiresome circle, over and over....

it says palpatine's 50....it doesn't say anything about sidious does it?....and i'm not saying they're different people here by the way....

Yeah I perfectly understand, but your saying here that Palpatine could claim he's 50(in Episode1), while his Sidious alter-ego could be 500 or so...COME ON...
That's why this subject never ends...Palpatine/Sidious is NOT 100 or 1000 years or so.
Palpatine had a master, his master had a master and his master had a master...and so on till we get back at the Sith-rule of TWO.
Or else we can get ridiculous in theories here.
Just wait for the new movie.

CLOSE THIS THREAD PLEASE?!?!?!

hmmm.....i won't cry if he's not real old, but i don't see why he couldn't be....it doesn't seem like a silly idea to me....yoda's 900, chewie's 300....palpatine seems like a character who could've been lurking around in the shadows for a damn long time to me....think about it, he's the flipside to yoda....and the sith have been extinct for a millenia....palpatine's master could've been that last sith that mace refers to....patience is palpatine's strength, and a rock solid plan, with no holes, a can't lose situation, because it's so well thought out.....a few hundred years planning fits with all that to me....and look at his face....not saying it's due to age, but the way his face looks, makes it a reasonable idea to say he could be fairly aged.....

anyway, as usual there are no concrete answers to be found here....it's gonna end with "oh well, i guess we'll just have to wait and see".....it can't end any other way, and never has the other 100 times this has been discussed....i just don't think the idea can be dismissed as "silly" that's all....

easily explained:

Palpatine is clouding the vision of ever single jedi in the council since episode 1. That is why this whole thing starts. Jedi loose the ability to use the force to see things. So I will be the billionth and one person to answer this obvious question.

"Shoud I advise the council that we have lost the ability to use the force?" Mace says to Yoda.
"No. Multiply our advisaries shall if knowledge of our ability to not use the force is known." answers Yoda.

Obviously they coundnt see right in front of them. Hence the Phantom Menace.

IT'S BEEN EXPLAINED. PLEASE, NO MORE THREADS ABOUT THIS!

Mace deflects sith lightning into Palpy's face and that causes him to reveal his true self. This is from the official REVENGE OF THE SITH visual dictionary.

Go here.
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f38/t330718.html

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