Its funny because it was clear that when George wrote a New Hope he didn't have an idea of what Palpatine was.
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Palpatine is Not a Sith Lord. Also, Not Even in Charge
In the film, an Imperial officer named General Tagge (didn’t even have to look that up) is moderately freaked out upon hearing that the “senate” has been dissolved. “How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?” he worries. Well, in the prologue to the novel, the Emperor doesn’t. In a super-brief introductory section of the book (which claims to be taken from something called “The Journal of the Whills”) the death of the Old Republic and rise of the Empire is summarized quickly. Most interestingly, the rise of Palpatine from senator to President and then Emperor dovetails neatly with the events of the movie prequels. That is, until this casual assertion: “Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.”
Palps is most certainly not a Sith Lord, nor does he even seem all that evil. Instead, he’s more like some creepy historical politician, like a Caesar being betrayed by a bunch of boot-licking Brutuses. Certainly not the cackling, all-knowing lightning-shooting guy we know so well. Also, how do we feel about the fact that the opening lines of the first ever item in the epic Star Wars franchise contains the phrase “boot-lickers?”
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BTW just for fun I thought for any of you that were interested I would throw up the PDF of the Original Story. The Star Wars.
http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scrip..._third9-75.pdf
Beyond the fact that Luke Starkiller live on Utapa, The Imperial Capital is Alderaan and Grand Moff Tarkin is a rebel leader, there are some similarities
Oh and there are three Sith Lords and Ben survives the fight with Vader.