Hal 9000 said:
jarbear said:
Here’s a question (from the color blind guy)
As for Palps getting electrocuted (again) but this time explodes … I was thinking, what if the lighting going BACK to him is a different color, maybe purple? White?
Why?
Though it is still kinda lame, in a sense, that Palps AGAIN gets defeated by his own lighting. But what if it was more “special” … or maybe Jedi-powered. Using Jonh’s force ghosts being introduced, the view COULD assume it was being returned with more of a Jedi Ghost finisher. I don’t know if that sounds lame or anything … but it would be neat to try and add some more depth to this final battle then Palps getting zapped by his own lighting. Again.
I like it. Or the room could go dark and then reveal he was nonexistent the whole time!
Well… no.
Well, yes, actually. This is actually a really interesting idea!
Consider: We have via TLJ the fact that one can project an image with their mind, and the idea of the person as symbol which is more powerful than the person themselves. It follows rather naturally that a Sith cult with moderate ability would create an image of Palpatine to exist in opposition to the image of Luke, using some sort of focal point. Say the crane supporting Palpatine actually supports some blue crystal or something, a Sith artifact which looks a bit like the wayfinders and focuses the limited Force ability of each of the cultists into something stronger.
So what would the plan of such a cult be, exactly? Using the events of TROS, this plan could be to bring together the dyad of Rey and Kylo in order to turn them to the Dark Side or drain their power and destroy them.
How would this be implemented? There would need to be relatively few changes for such a large overall change, but in Kylo’s first visit to Palpatine he might see flashes of the crystal instead of Palpatine’s body, just single frames where the illusion starts to break down. Then there might be a few shots of the Cultists interacting in the final battle, such as the power of the dyad draining into the crystal and perhaps dispersing into the cultists. When ‘Palpatine’ shoots his lighting into the sky, there would be a shot where the crystal is absorbing the lighting of the Cultists, which might only be faint blue traces of light moving towards the center of the room.
Finally, when Rey is about to lose to the lightning barrage, her eyes are opened to the fact that it’s just a crystal and not Palpatine at all. She then redirects the lightning back using the Force for knowledge and defense. Perhaps the blue crystal is positioned slightly above Palpatine’s form so that if Rey were to ‘kill’ him as he wished it wouldn’t endanger the crystal.
The best part of this idea is that the Rey Palpatine angle actually works as a part of the illusion.
Episode IX: The Phantom Menace. Like poetry.
