DARTH SIDIOUS
  • MAR 22
Jamie Wire wrote: 
"Does Darth Sidious exist? No-one is down anywhere as being in the  cast for him. He has to be a character in part 2 of some stature  because Palpatine is likely to come into contact with him, if they're  not one and the same anyway. Is this just a fictional character? Probably not as www.darthsidious.com exists and links to the main  page of www.starwars.com  This really annoys me. Anyone help? what role will this character play? Is Darth Maul a Vader like minion? Why were Darth Sidious and Darth Maul replaced by The Emperor and Darth Vader and who instigated the change?" 
  • MAR 24
Jom wrote:   
"To Jamie: 

The only thing we have heard about Sid is that he appears has a hologram 
and Maul and Nute Gunray report to him.  Whether or not he is related to 
Palpatine is only speculation that is obviously brought on because of 
the "hologram" similarities.  So I'll add my bit of speculation.  
Sidious is one of three things: 

1)      Sidious is a cover for Palpatine before the movie is released.  The 
hologram guy will be shown to the audience as Palpatine in SW1. 

2)      To the audience Sid and Palp are two different people.  Until 
somewhere down the road (SW2?) Palp is reveled to be the Sid character 
from SW1. 

3)      Sid and Palp ARE two different people.  What happens here is anyone's 
guess."
  • MAR 25
Jamie wrote:   
"this is my theory that I devised about Darth Sidious that I have put  
up elsewhere on the Net over the last week. 

as Jom says, to the audience we will be faced with Senator Palpatine,  
a middleaged politician from Naboo. He is immensly proud of his home  
planet, and feels that Chancellor Valorum doesn't do enough for it.  
He also greatly admires his own Queen, but she happens to be killed  
in a kind of accident, thus bringing in her very young daughter as the  
new queen. Of course, Palpatine will support her just as he did her  
mother.  

>>>Darth Sidious may have ordered the killing of the Queen, carried  
out by Darth Maul or even Nute Gunray. Why would he do that? Maybe  
the Queen is a very strong Queen. Perhaps Sidious wanted her out of  
the way to bring in the child who might prove to be a bad ruler.  

Senator Palpatine is on the outside very unassuming and unambitious.  
He has no real desires other than to get the best for Naboo in the  
Senate. He believes this belief will further his career. We may even  
see him within his chambers practicing a kind of black magic but that  
will be it.  
>>>Maul will attack Naboo on the orders of Sidious. He won't actually  
be seen at all. 

Part 2 and Maul is killed. Sidious needs a new dog. He cannot  
approach someone to replace him as DS, so he adopts the guise of  
Palpatine. This won't happen to Ep2 and will be one hell of a shock."
  • MAR 28
SNS22 wrote:   
"The average Star-Wars fan is probably not as fanatical about it as most of us 
are. Lucas wants to make something that will appeal to a mass audience. I 
don't think he will want to do anything that will "go completely over the 
heads of casual fans". Therefore I believe that the theory "Someone else 
assumes the identity of Senator Palpatine" to be too complex for the causual 
fan. So that would leave the theory that they are the same person or two 
different people. I think Fans are going to want to know how "The Emperor" 
became so powerful. Perhaps he will be taught by Sideous and then destory his 
own Master later on in the second film, just prior to usurping Power. That in 
a sense would forshadow his own death at the hands of his own servant Darth 
Vader..."
  • MAR 30
Jamie Wire wrote:   
"at the risk of repeating myself,

There is no known actor to play sidious, therefore it must be 
someone in the cast already. 
We never really see Sidious in the film apparently, allowing for 
his identity to be a secret. 
Palpatine doesn't become that powerful. Who says he isn't already.
He will only be discovered using force potential, and that could be 
masked by having another dark lord as a henchman, ie darth maul.
I was reading somehting in a Star Wars mag about the annotated 
screenplays, and it was saying how Lucas never cans an idea. One 
particular idea is the search for Force enhancer Kaiburr Crystal.
(forget splinter of the minds eye). This would for sure enhance the 
power of Palpatine. Perhaps the Clone Wars will revolve around the 
Jedi trying to find it before Palpie does."