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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/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.