But Demos we DON'T see the same disfiguration in Skywalker. Assuming that Palpatine is Sidious.. he goes from Chancellor... normal looking old dude... to the cloaked Palpatine... fucked up looking retard.

I don't see any possible way that Palpatine can go from Chancellor to Cloaked dude just from using a few Force Powers.

We see disfiguration in Anakin. Looking at the trailer, he's quite normal looking around the time he's appointed to the Council. But by the lava pit bit, he's got the whole decay thing going on. Not as rapid or intense as Palpatine's, but it is there.

If you have a more plausible explanation for Palpatine's decay, though... the evidence is there for it being caused by his use of the Dark Side.

The only real disfiguration on Anakin is the change in eye color.

And I agree with you that the only plausible explanation for Palpatine's sudden decay is the use of the Dark Side. UNLESS Palpatine and Sidious are in fact, not the same people.

Xion

I still have the nagging thing in the back of my head saying there's going to be some sort of closure with the connection of master Sifo-Dyas and the order for the clone army.

So, how did that whole "Sifo-Dyas," thing come about? I hadn't actually known that Quel Jin Lorn and Syfo Dias were the same until after the movie was actually over.

You're cooking what for dinner?

Snowkan

WTF Seth? That sounds absolutely retarded.

Kuro: Actually Yoda and Palpy get in a saber fight and Palpy fucks Yoda up with force lightning.

That's because Yoda let him do it obviously. Yoda is the man! He will rule you all, and anyone that beats him is hacking and should be banned from life...or the script?! :D

I do agree that the decay would be caused by his immersion into the dark side. I'm curious now as to if Sidious and Palpatine really are different, it's totally against what I always thought but who knows. It'd be pretty cool to see? I think some of the evidence to them being the same person would also be when Maul and Sidious were walking on none other than Coruscant. Who knows?

Well, he either gets in a fight with Palpy or Sidious (if you are one to believe they are not one in the same), as we see Sidious fighting Yoda later in the Senate chambers, or, obviously, both (if you're one to believe they are the same person). What would be really bad ass is if they weren't the same person, and Yoda had to fight both of them at the same time, but I doubt that'll happen.

You all have ridiculous perceptions of what would be cool and/or badass.

Ridiculous...or genius?

It'd be even cooler if they were different people and Palpatine beat Sidious' ass. I mean come on... two Sith having a knock down drag out? What?! But I doubt it. If that were to happen though it'd be even cooler if Yoda was thrown in the mix and it was a three way free-for-all!