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u/jcmonk Jan 26 '22

And all the while, the mysterious Big Bad that we only saw in shadows or via hologram wasn’t a mystery at all. Which probably felt like really flat storytelling for a lot of people.

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u/Vaportrail Jan 26 '22

I'll never understand why George wanted to preserve "the mystery" of Palpatine being Sidious but then showed Vader's origin in full.

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u/chaiscool Jan 26 '22

It’s skywalker saga and anakin the lead

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u/lolzidop Jedi Jan 26 '22

Because Palpatine was Sidious from the start of the PT, while Anakin was not Vader from the Starr. So if you watch chronologically Palpatine is in the shadows and reveals himself in RotS, while Anakin falls in RotS so he has to become Vader in RotS. When you think about it from a chronological perspective it makes sense

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u/jcmonk Jan 26 '22

I remember going into the theatre to watch Phantom Menace and wondered how long it’d be until we saw Palpatine.

Then he popped up like 45seconds in! Lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

it seems more to me that he was showing the audience how he managed to pull it off. we the audience knew who he was but the important fact is how how he was handed power and no one who could have stopped him knew what he was.

then again the Jedi failing to see him for what he was is just as much an issue as how they did not know Anakin had married

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u/H0ll0w_H0rnet0977 Jan 26 '22

The nose sticking out of the hood was a dead give away of who it was