The Emperor Arrives - Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi HD 

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well they’re both old in both episodes, he wasn’t necessarily young in the clone wars

@@hornet370 Semantics. Your comment, whether you intended it or not, misses his entire point.

@@hornet370 he was young when he played an old palpatine and he was old when he played a younger palpatine

@Shadowhulk45 he was younger in the prequels than he was in the originals dumbass

you should have complimented Vader on the wax job he did to his armor. Got himself nice and polished for your arrival

You are a decoy not the real thing

I will admit, we did a great job. But if you recall, the death of a loved one is what caused me to switch sides.

I really miss serving the Empire. You guys had the best dental plan in the galaxy.

I hate sand.

@G E T R E K T except, he was hoping for the reverse.

There can only be two Sith. The Master and the Apprentice. Palpatine was eyeing Vaders replacement.

Imagine if Luke was actually going to kill Vader, and Palpatine says, 'DEW IT', which is a reference to Anakin killing Count Dooku in ROTS

@Rick Blaine "You remember, right? Count Dooku, you, and me. You wanted to be a Jedi, I wanted you to be my next apprentice. Killing Dooku and going against the Jedi way. It's a formula that works well."

Damn, well spotted.

@@jeremyfields9009 Thank the Lord.

It is an amazing reveal.

Am I the only one who remembers this scene is longer in the theatrical version when it first appeared in theaters? The royal guards were stepping out of the shuttle while Vader approached the shuttle prior to the emperor's entrance? The music was longer I guess that version has been lost in the cutting room floor of Disney.

And in Empire he originally wasn’t even played by Ian Mcdiarmid!

Yes! In the original release the holo of the emperor was IIRC actually portrayed by a woman, with a chimpanzee's eyes spliced into the image!

They undoubtedly feared this cloaked figure instantly after seeing Vader kneel to him

They were scared, obvio... If someone as powerful as Vader kneeled to someone else, they could only imagine what the Emperor's power must be.

Stormtroopers aren't clones

After the Clone Wars the Empire stopped using clones.

Stromtrooper: "Who´s that old lady?"

Vader is a complex character (though they have tried their best to dumb him down!), you could appreciate him and even admire or root for him; here though, the Emperor, without yet knowing how strong in the force he is yet, just appears completely evil, without humanity whatsoever, and this opening scene with him sets that up so well as the main villain in the saga.

And Vader was my biggest fear as a kid too

Theres always a bigger fish

In a sense, he was answering to Tarkin on the first Death star.

Yeah it took me way too long to figure out that Vader wasn’t the leader of the Empire

He probably doesn't want the Emperor to sense his fellings of betrayal

I think Thrawn was the only one who wasn’t afraid of/feared the emperor and his power, also cause he knows there are far worse things out there…

0:41 11 YEAR OLD STARKILLER HERE! Oh hi 'orphan' -SOURCE Y1Y2 Palpatine or should I call you dad.... YOU PALPATINE ARE A BENEATH ME PIECE OF **** Y2 MUTATION = 6TH UNIVERSE MOST HIGH YOU ARE A PIECE OF TUR* **** PALPATINE ** ** YOU ** KYLO ** BANG BANG I AM FEDERATION I AM REBEL ARMY YOU SITH SCUM! -BABY YODA!

And THIS is why the comments section is worth it! Great analysis

I really like how the imperial march and the empire's army in general seems like an average dictatorship initially. Sure we know they like power and they're evil and what not, but the emperor is a different kind of evil. It's like the empire is just a mask for this otherworldly kind of evil that the emperor represents.

Couldn’t put it any better. George Lucas would be proud of such a response that whole heartedly understands his work.

And that pallid skin, yellow eyes and croaking voice with no warmth in it. Yes you could see just in this brief depiction, that Vader was right in his earlier scene, that he is the more 'forgiving' one - and that terrifies, even without later knowing the Emperor has abilities Luke or Vader can only dream of.

Saltire Not only that, but Vader has been revealed (in some EU sources) to be unlike Palpatine in the sense that he doesn’t kill merely for the pleasure of it, but rather only when it has sense to do so.

It's supposed to represent that the force is something beyond the physical, that's why Yoda was so small and frail

@@shugaroony anakin would probably have become stronger than palpatine had he not been restricted by his suit and physical shape. But this was of course palpatine's plan to not get overthrown as the master

@@adrians3267 Indeed. Had Vader kept his original form, he would have become the most powerful being in the galaxy, but Palpatine only sought power for himself, so while he was angry at him for losing his body and becoming weaker with the force, he had no intentions of letting Vader somehow overthrow him, which is why he had the suit designed thus.

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ISB: *Helo*

“Dave I think we’re the bad guys!” 😰😰😰

Davi Mitchell is now a stormtrooper

Nah, as they pay us just to stand there

There’s a bit in the ROTJ novel where Anakin, as he lays dying, has a bit of extra dialogue to Luke before he goes. “Luminous beings are we… not this crude matter.” It’s a Jedi maxim, one that Yoda gave Luke before he too died. I think of it as that really was Anakin that died on that ramp, not Vader. (Plus, with Anakin’s scenes in Ahsoka… well, I’ll just say that Anakin’s redemption isn’t quite done just yet.)

Yes, this would be a "toxic" master-apprentice relationship 😂😂😂

AND let's not forget that, in order to establish Palpatine immediately, Vader did not need to be turned into a laughing stock.

@@Metawraith No no, Vader should have been tossed across the room as a greeting so we definitely know who is more evil and powerful, cant be certain otherwise

@@reallyanotheruser7290 😂

0:41 11 YEAR OLD STARKILLER HERE! Oh hi 'orphan' -SOURCE Y1Y2 Palpatine or should I call you dad.... YOU PALPATINE ARE A BENEATH ME PIECE OF **** Y2 MUTATION = 6TH UNIVERSE MOST HIGH YOU ARE A PIECE OF TUR* **** PALPATINE ** ** YOU ** KYLO ** BANG BANG I AM FEDERATION I AM REBEL ARMY YOU SITH SCUM! -BABY YODA!

900 year old wrinkly midget and a bloody ghost

This needs way more likes

Great job Jonas, would you like to work at IGN?

And at one point he accidentally makes out with his sister.

@@pittland44 not accidentally

An amazing actor, his portrayal of Sir Edward Grey in the BBC's 37 Days to War (2014) was so different to the character of The Emperor. Both great performances.

Ian is a GREAT actor !!!! He was the only bright spot in all the Star Wars movies...... what a Sinister laugh.... !!!

@@tommytillman Sorry, there is no way you can lessen Peter Cushings involvement.

It was a masterstroke to cast such a relatively young man to play the old emperor. Were prequel and belated sequel trilogies on Lucas's mind at the time?

@@tommytillman he deserves all the awards for this

I was thinking that same thing. For three movies and 6 years, the Emperor was mostly a name and a flickering hologram but then Vader falls to one knee and everyone is thinking WTFFFFFF??? Especially when a little old man hobbles out of the ship and Darth Vader calls him "master" This is possibly the best character set up in movie history

We all of a certain age all but wet ourselves! ^_^ One amazing evil bad guy! ^_^

And then we got the ewoks

Or you actually use your brain and realize the writers retconned luke being vaders son after a new hope so they needed a new villain to defeat so they had to make a horrible character like the emperor just to have someone for vader to take down so he can redeem himself. The emperor is a terrible character in this film, his “master plan” that he constantly claims to have “foreseen” doesnt come true bcuz it made no sense in the first place, in what world would killing all of lukes friends make luke swear his undying loyalty to the emperor its the worst writing i have ever seen. Empire is a great film, but a new hope and return of the jedi are mediocre at best

@@zillobeast5257 ... which has nothing to do with any of this. Pour out your hate and inadequacy somewhere else, no one cares about you.

The perfect definition of ''don't judge a book by it's cover''.

"Just" the galaxy* not the whole universe

I remember thinking that there was no way that this old codger could last more than a few seconds against a young Jedi like Luke...that is until the lightning started shooting out of his hands...

He doesn’t rely on corporal strength - his power comes from his strong mind and brilliance. He doesn’t even like to use his lightsaber as he is so strong with the Force that he can crack entire planets with just thought

To be fair vader was the closest thing you can call a friend for him

@@artursfilipovs4923 "Then why do I get the feeling you'll be the death of me?" :)

He makes a mockery of anything decent or positive.

"[Ian McDiarmid] revealed he was inspired to put such a hateful, spitting delivery on the word 'friends' as the Emperor after it occurred to him, “He doesn’t have any friends,” and would find the mere idea something worth mocking".

@@artursfilipovs4923 No.He has some friends since with his apprentice times with Plagueis.The purple dressed guys are his true friends.These guys were serving as assasins,underground connections etc to Plagueis.One of the purple guy among them is Grand Vizier also,which is higher rank than Vaders.

Even more bizarre is that Mark was 30. Only an eight year age gap.

Phenomenal makeup job and use of voice

Yes, he was/is younger than Harrison Ford.

Wait what?

Did George Lucas pick a relatively young actor because he was already planning on using him in the prequels?

What do you mean? Isn't it hundreds of people in costumes or early CGI?

@@fuzzyotterpaws4395Nope, that's a matte painting. The landing deck on Bespin was also a matte painting. You can look it up by searching for "Star Wars matte paintings".

And TWO Probe Droids!

@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 practical effects

Don't forget Prowse :D The voice is one thing, but the way Vader actually MOVES where he nervously looks at the Emperor really tells a whole story on its own

@@spiffygonzales5160 God yes, I forgot about that poor guy. His acting was as God tier as their’s, even if we don’t hear it.

A true empire

+Ran Dom Royal guards stayed by the shuttle, the purple guys arrived with Palpie, you can see one at 0:40

+blueshit199 The purple guys are Imperial Dignataries, chosen by the emperor to manage the empire.

Aitor García Yes, I've seen them for the first time in Emperor's throne room later on in the movie.

***** Whoa, dude... I didn't know all that things.

Boooo.

+ToxicObject Shut up

Soul Taker 2507 Shut up

+ToxicObject Gooood I can feel your anger! It gives you focus makes you stronga!

XDDDDDDDDD

I read that as blow. "How did you learn that your cyborg father was gay?" Answer: "I saw him kneel down and blow the emperor".

Well he'd already been pretty much ordered about by Tarquin in the first movie, so it's not that surprising.

I think Vader was number 2 or maybe even number 3 in the Organization. Grand Moff Tarkin was on the same level or higher up than Vader in Star Wars: A New Hope. He speaks to him like he was in a higher position and sometimes kind of talked down to Vader in some scenes IMO. Telling him his plan "had better work" and he was taking a big risk in listening to him. And also he ordered him to release the guy that he was strangling with his force powers after he was putting down the force and said "his sad devotion to that ancient religion hadn't helped them find the Death Star plans". Vader was clearly more powerful than Tarkin but he probably outranked him.

@@STONESGAM Only higher up in his particular jurisdiction. The Death Star was Moff Tarkin's project and he had complete authority from the Emperor over matters concerning it. He and Vader happened to cross paths because of their respective assignments, therefore it's not an issue of who outranks the other, merely they are in charge of their own separate goals. If the scenario was jedi/rebel hunting or matters of the Emperor's security, Vader would be very much in charge. His attendance at the Death Star was because of his pursuit of Leia and the stolen plans, as such that doesn't mean he outranks Tarkin just because he turned up, Tarkin had a direct mandate that made him senior on Death Star matters.

@@ultra_vires Okay. Well, Vader probably couldn't just kill Tarkin for no reason though if he got upset. Like he did to the Captains and Admirals in the Empire Strikes Back.

The Return Of The Puns

The Death Star will be completed on schedule.

It would certainly be better than the one we got from Disney!

Victor Gattis not under all that armor you can’t 😏

@@josephrehan6978 Get out

To be fair, The Imperial March is the Empire's theme. The quieter leitmotif can be attributed to Vader but the full blast version of the theme here represents the might of the Empire - and by extension Palpatine. 0:04 Vader. 0:12 Empire.

The transition was perfect.

@@kungolaf4499 it’s both, throughout the series the theme has been associated with Anakin before the empire was even around, in the grand scheme it was really Vader’s first

@@jackbruno953 Not really. In The Empire Strikes Back it plays when the Imperial Fleet and the Executor are first introduced and Vader is only a sidepiece - a part of the show so to say. It also plays tons of times way faster for example right before when the Imperial officer on a Star Destroyer is informed of approaching Rebels ships and says "Good. Our first catch of the day." It is the theme of Imperial fleets and the Empire's presence. Not necessarily Vader's. It doesn't play once during the cave scene with Luke or Luke's confrontation with Vader. Only in Return of the Jedi is the quieter leitmotif exclusively used when Vader appears physically on screen. But it is not the parade-like triumphant Empire theme used before but a laidback, more sinister version. This tactic is also used in the Prequels and The Clone Wars when Anakin has darker moments or for when example he shuts the doors on the Separatist Leaders. ROTJ and Prequels made Imperial March his theme - not Empire Strikes Back especially considering that the Empire Strikes Back was trying to do something completely different with the Imperial March. The Imperial March is the Empire's theme but one of its leitmotif's is also Vader's theme. That's the way I would put it.

@@kungolaf4499 I know it first plays then but they clearly changed it to mainly be vaders theme, it still the empires but the the piece of music is used as vaders theme as well. There are so many times when it just plays when anakain/vader is on screen

"Hey Ian, how's it going" *Sidius voice" "exactly as I have foreseen."

Reminds me of that Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon spends a day with James Earl Jones. Funny shit.

He got roasted by a dragon in his previous movie, Dragonslayer. 😂

He prob dead

@@poki2outof103 no hes as alive and the whole Galaxy hears or some bs like that

0:41 11 YEAR OLD STARKILLER HERE! Oh hi 'orphan' -SOURCE Y1Y2 Palpatine or should I call you dad.... YOU PALPATINE ARE A BENEATH ME PIECE OF **** Y2 MUTATION = 6TH UNIVERSE MOST HIGH YOU ARE A PIECE OF TUR* **** PALPATINE ** ** YOU ** KYLO ** BANG BANG I AM FEDERATION I AM REBEL ARMY YOU SITH SCUM! -BABY YODA!

Conversely, the prequels and sequels repelled all these attributes to the edges of the Galaxy ;)

@@CreationBrosZone-km5be nah, Palpatine was great in the prequels. The prequels are overhated.

TheHauntedReader There's always one

Probably Gary.

"Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry."

They aren't any stormtroopers in the scene

The tactical Shark 😐

And he LOVES it

He is the very final boss in every single situation.

There's no villain like Palpatine, he actually won. Voldemort; struggled to conquer a freaking school. Sauron; was "dead" for 3000 years and when he was capable of returning he was beaten. Emperor Palpatine; successfully conquered the galaxy and maintained order for 20 years, died because he didn't foresee that his own apprentice would betray him. I know this might seem a little biased but im tired as hell to go into depth with every one of these guys.

Keichwoud357 😂😂😂That sounded really funny to me

Palps knows he is a monster, and he enjoys every second of it. One of the greatest villains ever

It's true. Since we never see his face, only his head motion gives aways certain emotions.

@Tom Ford I never said Prowse was the MAIN reason. James Earl Jones is like 90% of why Darth Vader resonated the way he did, but everyone knows that and says so. Prowse never gets any respect, and when people show clips of his actual voice during the filming, it’s to mock him and point out how much Jones added (which again, he DID). But Prowse deserves a LOT more credit than he ever received during his lifetime. Especially because in the first movie he’s just playing a hulking Frankenstein’s Monster with little character of his own. In Empire and Return of the Jedi, Vader becomes a fuller character who has his own arc and is more than just a monster in a leather suit. Jones of COURSE rose to the occasion to make Vader the deeper character of ESB and ROTJ, but Prowse did too. And you see it in moments like this and later when Luke and Vader meet to discuss his surrender. Prowse just carries him much more heavily in this film as Vader is being pulled toward choices (between Luke and the Emperor) he doesn’t feel capable of making.

Very true

The most evil villain ever- a politician

Not in the last movie lol

@@Anthonycheesman33 Well I would still say that Palpatine as terrible as he was in it was still better than most of sequel wannabe villains like Snoke, Kylo or Hux. So it checks out.

@@Anthonycheesman33 Sequels are not cannon, only for Disney.

Lol I know but Its not like they can do shit about it! Vader and Palpatine would just end them

actually there's volume 2 for this song just look up emperors theme and this is way more different than legends

what?

well its not like they have anything to hide lol. Even if there was a rebel spy there, the only thing they could report is that vader is looking for luke

confidently and possibly on purpose...smoke out the spy..death to the rebel scum...lol

I see no reason to doubt his words.

@Make You Seethe There were some ideas and backstories in mind, but Lucas didn't fully start outlining everything until he started ESB.

@@justinmadrid8712 Especially when the current people in charge lie every other month, lol.

I think what happened was he always had an idea of what he wanted to see, but only felt like so much of it would be possible, until he got to that point.

He did it to pretend he was weak, not because he needed it.

@@shadowstarz3651 Like Yoda in the prequels.

not to mention the smallest hangar in the death star!

IKR

Vader´s arrival was unexpected.

1 trooper was like hmm zzzz huh oh crap its sidius got to stay awake

Well thats the difference between when you're the number two guy and number one guy

That's obviously not everyone

Most of the station is being assembled by droids so there's not much of an excuse to not show up unless you're flying patrol duty in a TIE fighter

Weren't the death stars partialy being made by Wookie slaves?

+Q Even less than that. They started assembling DS1 in 19BBY - it took nearly 20 years to build. The engineers on DS2 had to build a station double the size and power in a fifth of the time.

GlensGameReviews You forgot a t. :p But yeah, thanks for the laugh that made me nearly choke on my coffee. xD

Oldhead

definitely an impactful scene but Palpatine was shown earlier in episode 5, just with different actors originally

I was one of those people who saw it in the cinema in 1983. I will never forget it

Well...technically they can when they're first introduced to Star Wars.

@@shogun2215 trust me, it’s not the same. It was literally the first time everyone was introduced to the emperor. It’s not like now where you can tell your kids or grandkids when they see episode I for the first time that this guy is evil when he’s being introduced as a mere senator as opposed to the man he becomes that even Vader kneels to in his presence. Starting with the prequels you see his progression to the man who rules the galaxy but back in 83, we see the man that is merely mentioned and you see only an brief holographic image of and wonder just who he is and how powerful must he be that Vader, as powerful as he is, kneels before him and obeys him without question. It’s the aura of mystery that we are shown at the end when he starts blasting Luke with lightning that we think “oh, now I see why Vader takes orders from him”.

i love the classic Star Wars Eps 4,5 & 6 i grow up on then Eps 1 to 3 just show what happen before hand

This was the definition of "shit got real" 😂😂

“There is always a bigger fish”

Same

@@andre_santos2181 Who's the boss of Palpatine?

To be fair, he did in a new hope. But even as a kid when i saw Tarkin, I always thought "Why is this piss ant giving a literal warlord wizard orders?" Also did you know the imperial March was never in a new hope? Blew me away when I realized that

I mean Darth Vader owned a castle at Mustafar, so it technically makes him a lord

@Jarski I no, you'ee wrong. Lord means just a Sith Lord (which, I guess, was designed with intention to mock the Jedi who had the knight title, as lord is bigger than a knight). As for Vader, he was referred to as Lord Vader even before his massive Mustafar f*ckup. He was ordered to live there and build a castle there after his fateful losing to Obi Wan to be constantly reminded of his mega failure. That was supposed to fuel his anger.

@@drugaddicter It's a joke

Yea that’s the first thing I noticed

and that palpatine was always on the lookout for his replacement for vader, hence where luke if he went to the darkside would have replaced his father.

Except for the old age and forthcoming death.

Except that he rides on the biggest Star Destroyer in the galaxy. I mean... That's pretty much projecting power and a small dick move.

And this very point is why I thought it was a bad idea to make him a light saber wielding warrior in the prequels. In this movie he basically mocks light sabers as the weapon of a Jedi when talking to Luke, like it’s beneath him. Neither him nor Yoda ever needed to be light saber warriors and there’s nothing in the original trilogy that lets on that they would have ever been.

@@amostlyreasonableguy I totally agree - by showing the emperor as a lightsaber swinging fighter, they made him much smaller, much less powerful and much less frightening. In the old movies he talks about a light saber as if it is a toy of younger kids, no danger to him at all - they should have kept the mystery of the emperor instead of ruining that powerful aura by portraying him as someone who needs to jump around fighting with a light saber.

@@amostlyreasonableguy Yoda is a Jedi, why wouldn't he use a lightsaber?

Depends

This is why I hate work

More like Kim Jung Un visits your work station after a failed nuclear test...you know your chance to survive the encounter is less than 50%

Basically Jeff Bezos now.

@Brian Szpot You spelled Republican wrong.

"I don't think anything will ever match the grandiosity of the original trilogy, damn." Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy?

@@jamesgravil9162 He meant in Star Wars

xGames645 xdax ... real mature

Cliff Li perhaps the emperor did Foresee it. And if so, I wonder what he did about it.

Funny. In Legends Palpatines WAS actually warned that he would lose and die, but he ignored it. You know the end.

Ilya Rysenkov Well he had a set of clone bodies ready for him to inhabit and turned Luke to the dark side for a brief point

Good point.

Theyre used to it "Ahh crap hes doin that evil laugh again, i guess we gonna be doing overtime"

Dizzy Blu Perhaps.

They're probably hoping the poor soul gets throat therapy. Or not. They know the Emperor can sense their thoughts and would kill them on the spot for the most banal of reasons.

Maybe they must of thought Vader told The Emperor a kick ass joke ..haha

Velocity 987 Hey that's the picture for GradeA, right?

and still he is

And he still is

He will always be. Hopefully he will pick an apprentice to play the emperor when he decides to retire or passes away if they ever decide to remake the movies.

@@JD-dh3yn Don’t say that, please! I don’t want think about that ever happening. Why would they remake such a masterpiece

@@leogustafsson1735 with new Animations and new CGI it would be a great Remake. But you could also create a NEW Story - the Story of Mace Windu oder the fate of Obi Wan... But there will never be a Remake ... Best regards

Yep!! Exactly

Oh I agree. Ian McDiarmid played the best villain of all time so well

How did you feel watching ep9 teaser? Lol the senate is back

George Lucas made the best decision in hiring Ian McDermid to play Darth Sidious. Ian was magnificent in the role.

Ian McDiarmid plays the Emperor well.

The thing that always amazed me is the aging makeup they put on him as he was probably only 39 when he first played Palpatine, along with that voice, and then up to 20 years later they make him look young when he's older. I can only imagine how he'll look in the new one!

+MrKevin486 You must be mistaken Gul Dukat is the best villain ever.

+Kaiser Franz Josef I Never heard

Loki

+egogo816 At least until season 7.

+egogo816 Nvm....thought you were replying to someone else....damn this comment system.

I miss the days when Star Wars was just a Trilogy.

After Ep. 3 it went to shit, Disney Star Wars just isn't the same.

@@jeremyfields9009 you probably weren't even alive when it was

@@PU8698 with The Mandalorian you can tell that Jon and Dave are trying to bring things back to simple form again after the shit job these other guys did, getting overly ambitious with the ST. Among other things

Well said.

Most of the "extras" in that scene are a matte painting.

+Thoralmir And for good reason...he kicked motherfucking YODA'S ass!

+David Cannon If only Mace were still around, he would've finished him!

MilesEdgeworth129 No, he wouldn't. If he beat Yoda, he could beat Mace. Sure, Mace disarmed him, but he was faking his weakness to manipulate Anakin. Besides, only "the chosen one" could kill Palpatine.

David Cannon Still, Mace theoretically COULD have killed Palpatine. He is a master of Vaapad, which is one of the most powerful lightsaber forms in existence. Besides, even in the Star Wars universe, prophecies are not set in stone. The prophecy merely stated that the Chosen One "would bring balance to the Force", not "will kill Emperor Palpatine and destroy the Sith."

MilesEdgeworth129 True

+MisterGibbycrumbles Credit to Mitchell and Webb for that reference, no?

+caesar rome I love that book!

+MisterGibbycrumbles ...Did you notice our caps? They've got skulls on 'em.

+MisterGibbycrumbles "Nah, we're good, at least, that's what they told us during the brainwashing."

Lol!!! Mitchell and Webb? The SS had the deaths head on their caps to show loyalty to death.

Remember when movies were good ? Been a long time .

The entire belt of fighter craft outside was a security measure, not a parade. Its the same when a head of state of a near level official arrives at a secured facility.

@@DorkonaRope achtually moment

Chuck Norris could take him 🧐

@@DorkonaRope well yeah you still get his point though

@@DorkonaRope An official book I have from the 90s says it was a parade.

😂😂

U can’t unhear it

😆

Yeah

Underrated comment

At least he's relieved when they ignore him. Lol

@@scifyry From the way his eyes continually kept facing forward, he sure looks like it, and he kept a certain amount of distance back. No doubt Vader's words about him being a more forgiving master than the EMPEROR himself was heavy on his mind just then. Forget mumbojumbo about Sith and Dark Side of the Force, that man's worried about how the EMPEROR would be thinking about his "incomplete" Death Star.

In the script, the Moff wet himself when he was talking with Vader at the beginning of the movie

Honestly, he looks so terrified to be even near them both.

"I better not say anything. I like my limbs where they are."

I think palpatine was heavily inspired from the joker. Palp is just far less insane.

@@ratcatcher5364 idk, commiting mass genocide is pretty insane, Palpatine has indirectly killed possibly billions, consisting of rebels, Jedi, the people of Alderaan, and others. But they have all fallen to one person as the cause of it

Joker? You wanna tell me that LUKE SKYWALKER has the second most iconic evil laugh ever?

I'd like to see the Joker vs. Palpatine.

Actually, I was never impressed by Palpatine's laughter. Of course given the fact that he won...several times...on a galactic scale...he doesn't need it. I mean compare him to Sideshow Bob. NOW THERE is a laugh. But he can't defeat a 10 year old boy and an 8 year old girl.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I like how vaders theme feels a little fearful and diminishes as Palpatine’s theme takes over. Vader is scary and intimidating, but Palpatine is truly and wholly evil inside and out.

Is the imperial march version from 00:12 in a slightly different key or orchestration for the Emperor's arrival compared to the normal version in Empire Strikes Back?

@@marknoonan3854 the movie score actually takes two separate tracks from the soundtrack as-written (and recorded) and splices them together for this scene. I've replicated this process myself so i know it for sure

@@marknoonan3854 It is part of John Williams' use of leitmotif throughout the films. He takes the same "theme" and rearranges it according to the context. If you listen, the Imperial March when the emperor's ship docks at the Death Star sounds much more "evil" than Vader's imperial march. According to John Williams, Rise of Skywalker was the only time he ever reused a passage from previous scores exactly as they were previously performed.

HMiche93 Vader told ass-kissing joke

Palpy laughing means someone is gonna die.

When you realize your boss is evil

Wrong lol Lucas has always said that these films were designed to sell lots of popcorn, it's about money

@@andrewft31 But actually had a good story unlike disney

@@Mawhinz if you hear interviews from the cast of the originals they say they thought the dialogue was horrible, so apparently Lucas was never good at dialogue. But things he did right is make what the Force can do vague and apparently it gives each person a different strength, like Anakin was his reflexes and foresight, Kenobi was his ability to negotiate, Palpatines was foresight and manipulation. These are abilities they seem to be born with, Anakin had them them when Qui-Gon met him, so Rey being strong in the Force without any training in the beginning isn't a new thing, and she does eventually get training from Leia who was trained by Luke

Not really, when Lucas created the first movie he didnt even think about Vader being Luke's father. Only after the success of the first movie it changed.

@@andrewft31 there's a difference between being trained by qui gon for pretty much all of your teen years and accidently learning sith lightning when trying to take down a ship

+24SparrowJack Well he is meeting the emperor after all. He polished his helmet and suit extra well.

Well he has to like good, his boss just arrived

The boss is coming, make everything extra wizard!!

He got his armor waxed

XD

holy shit i can't

hereLiesThisTroper LOL!

I at first read that as "space penis" lol!

Darth Vader: What does a Jedi SWAT Team use? Palpatine: What? Darth Vader: FORCE. Palpatine: 1:43

This was really well done! HAHAHA

Haha wow I just found out today myself.

No CGI that existed back then could do this. Part of what makes the OT so impressive is that it is practical effects.

Most impressive

There are a lot of older sci fi movies (and others, but I like the sci fi settings best) that use this technique to great effect. Enemy Mine has some really great shots of the alien planet the two main characters are stuck on

Damn.......... Fckin good painting XD

Amazing description 👌

Correct. As was envisioned in 1983. Despair declining into hopelessness, then icy cold death at the whim of others. This is not some troll baiting you for money or negative attention. This is full-on, monolithic, try-and-stop-us blackness consuming everything.

They're not Acolytes. They're imperial dignitaries. They're basically Palpatine cabinet.

@@Amp661 I agree. I always thought of them as the Emperor’s closest advisors.

He’s known most of them since he was a kid in college. Or a young apprentice of Darth plageius

Back in 70s, people didn't even know neither the name Palpatine nor Darth Sidious. It was only the prequels that established who the Evil Emperor really was.

@@drugaddicter the name was well known to most Star Wars fans since 77. But very little about the character until 83

​@@drugaddicter actually, the name Palpatine had already been revealed in the A New Hope novel from 1976. It just wasn't used in the films.

0:41 11 YEAR OLD STARKILLER HERE! Oh hi 'orphan' -SOURCE Y1Y2 Palpatine or should I call you dad.... YOU PALPATINE ARE A BENEATH ME PIECE OF **** Y2 MUTATION = 6TH UNIVERSE MOST HIGH YOU ARE A PIECE OF TUR* **** PALPATINE ** ** YOU ** KYLO ** BANG BANG I AM FEDERATION I AM REBEL ARMY YOU SITH SCUM! -BABY YODA!

And the thought that this frail looking man could easily kill everyone in that room....

Where i can learn more about being a ruthless man?

Look at how Palpatine trained Darth Maul. Delta Operators, Navy Seals, Denmark's SOFs and Speztnaz don't go through such training. Hell, Darth Bane and Darth Krayt didn't train Zanna and Talon like that.

Maul learned that the hard way

In many ways Grand Moff Tarkin was lucky to be vaporized with the Death Star, can you imagine what Palpatine would have done if Tarkin had lived.

Vader will just kill you for failing him. It's business for him and he takes no pleasure or joy in it. Unlike Palpatine who is a true sadist.

Hahahaha!

The Dark side clouds everything. :P

Lol!!!!! I legit died laughing!!!! Friggin brilliant!!!!!!

Haha

"And there's no coming back from that."

Gabriel Carter Galactic Defense Laser*

Gabriel Carter *Justice Star

" The Death Star will be completed on schedule".

*senate star

@@VaderPopsVicodin10 Actually no. It was rebel propaganda. I guess they keep the name for the second one because they decided it was cool and after all they were following the Tarkin Doctrine, which prays: rule through fear

Fun fact: Palpatine thought, "Seems that the underlings are scared of me. OK, I will ease them. First, I will talk about Vader's boy and even offer a job to the brat, though he blew up a Death Star. Next I will laugh to show my human side to everyone and they will think that I am like Santa Claus wearing black." Didn't quite have that effect.

pon33villin I bet you the Stormtroopers probably thought that Darth Vader told a joke and the Emperor laughed. Lmao.

pon33villin I bet you the Stormtroopers probably thought that Darth Vader told a joke and the Emperor laughed. Lmao.

+ChrisIsONLINE hey palps, what has no legs & no arms & is burnt all over?

LOL, that was so hillarious xD!!!!! But seriously >:|, they are talking about other else.

The government does a whole bunch of evil shit yet it still has thousands of people working there. People are shitty and turn a blind eye as long as they are getting paid.