HeartBlade
Sr Member
Palpatine returning (if true) serves 2 essential purposes:
1) gives a big bad which the story needs
2) helps nostalgia
Although shocking, killing Snoke was a terrible idea from a story standpoint. He could remain mysterious (we never learned how Palpatine became emperor in the original trilogy) but terrible from a narrative standpoint. It would be like if in Lord of the Rings, Sauron was suddenly killed by Saruman or one of the wraiths halfway through the two towers.
1) gives a big bad which the story needs
2) helps nostalgia
Although shocking, killing Snoke was a terrible idea from a story standpoint. He could remain mysterious (we never learned how Palpatine became emperor in the original trilogy) but terrible from a narrative standpoint. It would be like if in Lord of the Rings, Sauron was suddenly killed by Saruman or one of the wraiths halfway through the two towers.