love the clip posted SSWR, the snape idea is great!

on the subject of palpatine turning into a grey scrotum immediately enstead of the slow deterioration, if this cant be fixed, then perhaps all his facial appearances when he is the hooded mysterious sidious, could have a wrinkly face quite obviously? so the lightening is removing his mask as oppose to changing his face?

it may be interesting too perhaps if we have hints that the dark lord could infact be somebody else, like snape/windu for example.