The Big Reveal Ian McDiarmid's Senator Palpatine is the Emperor/Darth Sidious, the Big Bad of the original trilogy. Why Its So Obvious George Lucas took typecasting to a whole new level when he cast the same guy to play the same role hed played sixteen years earlier, and expected us not to guess who Palpatine would become. Good job. Was it a nice touch to have McDiarmid come back and play a younger version of the character hed played in Return of the Jedi? Sure. But it came at a high price. When the 'big reveal' finally comes in the prequel trilogy that Palpatine would go on to become the Emperor, its not remotely surprising because Lucas has the same actor playing them both. It would have felt like much more of a twist if theyd brought in someone else to play the younger version of the character. If the make-up from Return Of The Jedi made it a little less obvious, McDiarmid's voice should have tipped you off. Its basically the same, only with a little more Parseltongue in Episode VI.
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