Re: Doctor Who: Space Babies - New Preview Clip (BBC)

The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 7/5/24 12:42 am:

In article <v1apg7$2k1di$1@dont-email.me>,
 

Who's 'Palpatine'?? Was He/She/It in the first trilogy??

 
It is the name of the evil Emperor as seen in The Empire Strikes back and
The Return of the Jedi - we learn his names in the prequel trilogy, where
he has a public face as Senator Palpatine and is secretly also known as
Darth Sidious.
 
Then of course in the ninth movie he makes a Masterly return from death
(ooh, Who reference!) - as in, “yes I’m back from certain death, no I’m not
going to tell you how, get over it”.

Trivia note: Palpatine/Sidious/the Emperor has been played since Return of
the Jedi by Iain McDiarmid - and in editions from 2000 or so onwards he was
retrofitted into Empire. The original Emperor in the version of TESB that I
saw in the cinema was played by a woman, Marjorie Eaton, but voiced by a
man, Clive Revill.

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