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   From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article , Merrick   
   Baldelli  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:02:40 +1200, Anybody   
   >  wrote:   
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   >   
   > [snippage]   
   > >Plapatine is winning and confident, suddenly he's "losing" and "weak",   
   > >Anakin arrives, suddenly he's again strong and wins.   
   >   
   >         So the whole scarring that he suffered from his own Jedi   
   > Lightning Bolts was...  Calculated?  Ummm, sorry -- not buying because   
   > if it wasn't dangerous, he wouldn't continue to look like a   
   > misshappened toad 20 years later.   
      
   Not necessairly "calculated" or planned, but it did help in his   
   convincing of the Senate that the Jedi had gone bad. We also don't   
   really know that it was "scarring" caused by the lightning since we   
   don't see Darth Sidious' face before that point. In the novel is says   
   something about Palpatine's mask being removed, but whether that means   
   a literal mask hiding his face or a figurative mask hiding his plans is   
   arguable (most likely both since a lot of Star Wars has multiple   
   meanings).   
      
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