PT Did Palpatine "allow" force lightning to scar himself?

Has anybody tried asking George Lucas? I mean, at a convention or something.

 

I looked back at you earlier post:

I don't think the movie or the passage I posted from the book are showing that the deformation is caused because of Palpatine using and being hit by the lightning.

I think what is going on is that we see a powerful Dark Side user, absorbing his own lightning back into himself. So we don't get the reaction that we see when Anakin and Luke are hit. What we get is the essence of the Dark Side twisting Palpatine's "visage". It's not a painful process with burning and smoke like we see with Anakin and Luke, but, it is a process where all that Dark Side energy is being reabsorbed back into Palpatines physical body and by the very nature of the Dark Side is that it twists and decays, so that is what it does to Palpatine.

 

Nice quotes, I actually came across the one about contact lenses in my search on this issue. I however wasn't sure if the part "Because the real Palpatine is the one who bursts forth at a calculated moment in Episode III just after persuading Anakin to kill Mace. That is when the true person comes out, letting the evil fully manifest itself" was a literal way of looking at it, or was just a metaphor of sorts that at the time Mace dies, Palpatine doesn't have to hide the Sidous persona anymore, not so much the physical appearance.

 

It's not 'motivation for the actor', it's Ian's appraisal of the situation. According to him Lucas considered showing Palpatine switching back and forth between the two appearances, which suggests that the post-duel version actually predated the lightning.

 

but he never looked that way before. ever. he easily could have appeared gross and scarred in every darth sidious scene in eps 1, 2 and tcw but he didn't.

 

Except in Sithisis.

 

non canon. ha ha!

 

Based on the way it was depicted. I think they are trying to say he didn't quite mean to do that to himself. Who would?

Though Luke didn't really get deformed by the lightning in ROTJ. I guess we are.....supposed to ignore that. :>

 

Or not.

 

?

Are you implying that I'm wrong for pointing that out? That I'm wrong for making a silly joke about it? Or are you recognizing the humor I used and actually agreeing with me? Please explain.

 

luke was being shocked he wasn't using lightning, having it come back into him, going back out, coming back in a feedback loop like sidious was. this is why sidious was cooked.

 

If Sidious was electrocuting himself, then how come peeka chaka no wookiee boonawa tweepie Solo? Ho ho hoooo.



Scarring: 0
True Form: 0
Jabba: 1

 

It's possible he did although I think the scarring he ended up with was because he had expelled so much energy and power I to the force lighting that it left him scarred and withered like he said when he addressed the senate to tell them that the Jedi made an attempt on his life.

 

i'm still of the opinion that the feedback loop between palps lightning and mace saber increased the amount of power coursing through palps body. similar to overdoing an execution by electrocution ala "the green mile". to much juice starts to cook you. i also think most evidence points to this as well but it's only my opinion.

 

I agree with this theory. The Force Lightning being reflected off Mace's blade amplified the lightning, resulting in Palpatine's unusual deformities. I think that's the best explanation that can be drawn from the film evidence. After all, Maul, Tyranus and Vader show none of the deformities that Sidious has. So the explanation that the deformities are solely due to use of the Dark Side doesn't make sense.

 

He's been using the dark side longer than they have, and possibly in more extreme ways.

 

This week's Illustrated Fact File (Issue 25) went with "it looks like he's being deformed - but really his true face is being revealed"

 

what's that from?

 

The Illustrated Fact File is a magazine, that's recently been relaunched. Issue 25 focuses on RoTS's Palpatine duel among other things.

 

Only available in the UK right?

 

It can probably be ordered from elsewhere - but it might be only sold directly in the shops in the UK.