RogueLeader said:
Pre-transformation Palpatine looks more like Ian McDiarmid with white contacts, to me, instead of looking like the Emperor. I don’t know if that makes sense, but there seems to be very little make-up on him that we associate with the Emperor, beyond making him extremely pale.I believe the intention was to make it like Palpatine’s spirit was possessing a fresh, un-deformed, new corpse body. Once he is ‘restored’ he resembles the true Sith Palpatine appearance.
I got the opposite impression from the deformed fingers.
Also, doesn’t seem like what is left of his fingers have been stitched together? When he raises his hands, I recall there being a line down one of his fingers that resembled a surgical scar.
I think ultimately the idea is supposed to be that he is a decaying clone, and/or multiple clone parts stitched together.
This is pretty rad, but I’d be curious to see a more subtle concept that’d be presumably easier to implement.