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Thread I saw on IMDb: When did you realize Palpatine's true identity? (in the PT)
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28-Jul-2009, 9:56 AM
Nanner Split said:

When I saw the title of this thread I was rather puzzled. I thought it was completely obvious as soon as he came on screen in TPM.

It was to me also. 

I wasn't vested in anything post-77 at that point, but it certainly seemed obvious to me.  Plus, Lucas had already shown that his style of storytelling was to just shrink the universe into a smaller & smaller cast of characters who took on new & second identities whenever he had writer's block or had painted himself in a corner.  As soon as Palpatine was on screen, I knew we were seeing the early days of the emperor. It reeked of Lucas' style.