The reason I want Snoke to be Plagueis is because they went out of their way to distance themselves from the prequels with TFA that it almost leaves those of us who liked them (or me, at least) with a sense of "you don't matter because those who didn't like/hated them are so much louder and more numerous." It would be nice for them to acknowledge that we're out here in a major way, and I don't think its too much to ask for. And since Plagueis was such an almost thrown-away mention in RotS, it would go a long way to bridge the gap, so to speak, without being overt about it. Those of us who care about the PT will instantly recognize and appreciate the reference and those who didn't or don't remember will be none the wiser.
Uh...you've had, what, a solid 15 years of PT-focused stuff to tell you that you are valued. You have a six-season cartoon, plus the Tartakovsky cartoon, plus toys, video games, books, etc., all of which focus on the PT and PT era.
The PT is a mixed bag. Some people like it, others loathe it, and I'd bet that the bulk of casual audience members who saw it basically thought it was nothing special. Maybe they even thought it was kinda bad. Regardless, I don't think the PT fans need any special fan service to "acknowledge" them. You've been acknowledged. You were acknowledged for over a decade.
I don't get the sense that TFA was trying to crap on the PT aside, perhaps, from the "This will begin to make things right" comment that some people are interpreting as snark thrown at the PT (which I think is pretty unlikely).
If anything, I'd say the goal of TFA -- to the extent there is any goal with respect to the hardcore fans -- is to simply move beyond the rift created by the PT and make a movie that hopefully PT-fans and OT-fans can get behind equally (again, to the extent that there are distinct camps).
JJ's Khan misdirection has been acknowledged by the man himself as a mistake. Also, JJ isn't solely in control of the story narrative of this trilogy, a lot of people are making those decisions. Disney had no reason to lie or to use Pablo as a proxy to lie on Twitter. Same with Larry Kasdan and Andy Serkis. There is no massive conspiracy wherein all these folks are trying to obfuscate the truth. The multiple comments about Snoke being a new character should be taken at face value.
in regards to the music cue rabbit hole, GW wrote that likely to be evoquative of evil as opposed to trying to mimic the opera music from ROTS. I'd bet $100 JW has no idea who Plagueis is. So yes, I feel very sure it's not him based on the actual evidence.
Almost certainly. I know that, to us, it's common knowledge, but for most people who aren't hardcore fans (and that would include Williams, I suspect), the name Darth Plagueis is totally meaningless.
I see, but the events of the PT were 60+ years previous to these events vs. the OT at 30, so story wise it makes sense. I just don't get the vibe watching the film that it's trying to distance itself from the PT.
Yeah, me neither. And, as you say, story-wise, it makes a hell of a lot less sense to have some never-before-seen-but-briefly-referenced guy pop up as the big baddie in this new film, particularly when he is from
before the Prequel era. Plagues -- if what Palpatine said was true -- existed at some time before Sidious took Darth Maul to be his apprentice, meaning it was at
least 63 years before the events of TFA.
Otherwise, there's no need to reference the PT for purposes of telling the story that TFA tries to tell. You might as well complain that they are intentionally trying to distance themselves from Rebels, because nothing from that show appears in the new film, either.
