DuracellEnergizer said:
The depiction of Palpatine in ROTS has really soured my opinion of McDiarmid's interpretation of the character over the years. There's no way in hell that over-the-top, pseudo-homoerotic bullshit would have ever come to pass if they'd stuck with a Clive Revill-styled Palpatine.
Yes a transgender Palpatine would have been much less homoerotic.