Originally posted by: ScruffyI was going over some archives last week and it turns out there was this huge fan theory about Sidious and Palpatine, that one was the clone of the other.
I remembered from the SW novelisation that Palpatine was the Emperor, as mentioned in the prologue. And Darth Sidious was clearly the Emperor. So, as usual, Luca$h decided that people needed things stated clearly in order to enjoy his movies. I would have loved to see some content in the PT that could (cleverly) upset preconceptions based on the OOT (or EU).
Sadly, it was just used to show backstory which had already been established for the OOT, quite often in a way that jarred with or flatly contradicted the OOT.
It would have been interesting if Sidious was a different person to Palpatine in some way.
On topic, I think that some film makers do successfully use crapness to comment on certain issues sometimes. My first example would probably be Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers', which, I would say, uses crapness to attempt to alienate us from the human characters and make us more sympathetic to the bugs.