Originally posted by: Sluggo
The problem with Palpy's make-up in Episode III is that it should have not been made to match the ROTJ make up. They shouldn't have tried to match him with ROTJ. All we knew about the Emperor in the days before the prequels was he was an old man when he declared himself Emperor and by the time ROTJ rolled around, he was a very old man. This change in ROTS seemed entirely unnecessary to me. He looked wrinkled and decrepit in ROTJ because he was just old.
The problem with Palpy's make-up in Episode III is that it should have not been made to match the ROTJ make up. They shouldn't have tried to match him with ROTJ. All we knew about the Emperor in the days before the prequels was he was an old man when he declared himself Emperor and by the time ROTJ rolled around, he was a very old man. This change in ROTS seemed entirely unnecessary to me. He looked wrinkled and decrepit in ROTJ because he was just old.
That's very true. He was pretty good and evil before he "mutated" or was "unmasked" in ROTS. Maybe it would have been "neat" to see him nearly killed in ROTS, so his dark essence would be partly disembodied, and that partial incorporeality would decay him over time and give him that phantom-like quality that GL was going for originally in the designs somewhere in between ESB and ROTJ.