sade1212 said:
You could rather straightforwardly black out the red bits, but it’s not that big of a deal. The opposite - adding red to his earlier costume - would be much more work.Edit: It has come to my attention that the official Rise of Skywalker teaser poster features red lightning, meaning it is actually more canon than the movie itself, since the poster came out first.
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Oh wow, blacking out the red bits would be the easier route 😄 completely flew over my head, didn’t think about it.
Although the red lightning on the poster, I think it’s supposed to represent that wormhole that leads to Exegol.
I wasn’t even aware they were chanting actual words, but I’d be down for it to be Sidious.
Curious that Sidious got name-dropped in TLJ but was only referred to as Palpatine/Emperor in the movie that actually featured him.
I think it was to enforce the “House Palpatine vs House Skywalker” aspect that JJ was trying to push.
It’s not really all that noteworthy since both Palpatine and Sidious are names that were only used in the Prequels, so either way it’s an acknowledgement of them. Then again, the Emperor had always canonically been Palpatine and was established as such in additional material, so maybe Abrams called him that not 'cause of the Prequels but 'cause it’s what was on the box of his childhood action figure or something. The same logic applies to the use of the word Sith.
Yeah, but I mean, Dooku and Maul never call him “Palpatine”, they call him “Sidious”, because they’re Sith. Padmé and Obi-Wan never address him as “Sidious”; they use “Palpatine”. The whole point is that there’s his public identity, and then his real Sith identity. Wouldn’t it make sense for the Sith Eternal to call him “Sidious”?
Like, JJ probably made them call him “Palpatine” because, like you said, it’s probably the name that was on his action figure as a kid, and a last name enforces the whole House Palpatine thing. But if you’re gonna tie his resurrection and this entire cult to the Sith, and Palpatine’s got a Sith name… i feel like they’d use his Sith name over the commonly known one.
I don’t think they were actually chanting any real words. It was just vaguely evil sounding gibberish.
They were. Once he goes “Look what you have made”, they go “Palpatine! Palpatine!” and then transition to vaguely evil sounding gibberish.