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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2271520" data-attributes="member: 8944">There's no doubt he got hit by lightning for a long time. Lightning making a person smoke makes some sense, and is well within the established range of consequences for being hit by force lighting. Is it really longer than Luke's bout with it, though? I don't think so, but I didn't time it, either.  Is it really logical to assume that a certain amount of lightning makes a face wrinkly? 15 seconds will do it, but 10 seconds won't? The onset seems nearly instantaneous in the film (though the wrinkles do get worse over time), which would make one wonder why Luke and Mace aren't wrinkle-machines, or at least sort of wrinkly.  Does it only make Dark Sider's faces' wrinkly? That can't be the case, because Vader himself takes a decent dose in Jedi - and he's just pasty, not really wrinkly at all.  In all, I'll buy that the lightning is the proximate cause for the Emperor's wrinkles. But it just doesn't make sense for it to be the sole cause. Something else was happening - and a mask coming down seems as logical as anything (though hardly the only sensical answer).</blockquote>