ST Is the Emperor really dead?

I think I may actually be a little bit disappointed if Anakin (read: Hayden) doesn't appear as a force ghost...that could be such a strong continuity element and would work perfectly for the story!!

I really hope this happens...

 

He's dead read the script.

 

Great advice
It's always negotiable with George and Co.

 

But George is retired now.

 

He still has his hands in the pot, unfortunately.

 

Yes, how unfortunate that the man who has created all that we hold so dear still has an iota of influence over the very thing.

 

Screenplays provide reliable information of one thing: what the writers were thinking at the time. Now the writers might be thinking differently. Still, as I've said too many times in this thread, I think it would be most interesting to have Palps come back as a Sith spirit, so that we could see how he's in a kind of hellish existence in comparison to the Jedi peace state. That means he probably wants to find a way to re-embody himself in someone or some thing; to possess, which actually says a lot about the Sith/neo-con ideology.

 

When I was a teenager, after I had wrecked my first three cars, my parents bought me my fourth, and final one. Now, overall, I loved this car. It was the color I wanted, it had a killer sound system, nice seats, it drove smooth, had enough horsepower. A really solid car, that I used all the time, and I still have it to this day. However, I was disappointed that it had manual windows. I mean, how annoying! Every time I have to roll the window down, I have to use that little crank.

Still. I love the car. It runs like a dream. I have had many adventures in it, and I am completely thankful to my parents for buying it for me. There is so much that I like about it, that I hardly ever think about the features I don't like about it. Nothing's perfect, right? And anyway, it was given to me. As a gift! For me to enjoy. I would never tell my parents how disappointed I was with the windows. I take the bad with the good, because it outweighs anything that doesn't meet my entitled, bratty, spoiled rotten expectations.

Take from that what you will.

 

Funny. I thought one had to pay for ones movie ticket, like for any other product.

 

I'm glad he has some say. He has good idea's. He's just not a good script Writer or Directer. He should have admitted that to himself after Episode 1 & hired some help. Like he did with Episode 7-9 by hiring Arndt. Who he hired before Disney bought Lucasfilm.

 

The Emperor is not dead dead. He's only mostly dead.


Yancy

 

He is dead enough for a considerable part of an audience to be annoyed with any resurrection. A few people I know even go so far to hate Palpatine as a character. And, well, he is pretty bland compared to someone like the Joker or John Doe or any other great villain. LFL can do better.

 

Thank the Lord someone finally said it. Palps is boring.

 

Haha, Palps > the Joker.

Subtle mastermind > nihilist madman any day!

@Darth_Pevra!

 

He is the opposite of subtle. He is basically the megalomaniac 100% super-psychopath who loves to gloat and that's all there is to him. He has no motivations and interests except "powerrr, unlimited powerrr".

I'm gonna say it again: I would love to see an idealistic villain this time around, someone like Magneto or John Doe. Someone who wants to better the world but uses reprehensible methods. Vader had aspects of this, but the power motive was still in the foreground with him.

 

Opposite of subtle? It took him three films to reveal himself. Harumph.

 

That disguise of him in TPM is only a little better than Clark Kent's sunglasses. Must have been really convinced the Neimoidians wouldn't turn of him, despite treating them like crap and giving them every reason to...

He was also extremely obviously a Sith in the ROTS opera scene.

Then there's also the "emergency powers" thingy in AOTC.

 

You're a hard Pevra to please.

 

I have always thought Star Wars even in the PT have great baddies. Darth Maul and Dooku were good and even grevious was interesting but other than Dooku were under developed. I'd like the new baddie to be a constant like Vader was. Having a sith ghost with a baddie, maybe not even a sithster but I'd say female is something I think would be interesting. Could the emperor possess someone through a sith ceremony perhaps? And then try to get revenge because we haven't seen that as of yet.

 

Palpy is dead, he was tossed like a ragdoll in an angry childs room down the spire shaft. He isn't coming back except for holocron.

 

I think we're missing the point here. Yes, he is dead to the living world. However, the end of ROTJ saw positive change in the world of the living, but the final trilogy will see the battle for both sides of reality. Yoda, Ben, maybe even Luke and co. will die, and battles will be fought, like I said, on both sides of reality in order to finally bring true peace.

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