jlee562
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I toke the whole Snoke thing seriously, basically because of
1) the actor who played him, Andy Serkis
2) they way they portrayed him in TFA
3) how he was percieved as a Dark Lord of the Sith, He was portrayed (to me) as another Emperor
I said this before, its a shame that, as of now, the most powerful dark force user is Kylo. But we will see
Ok, great. Don't externalize your experience with the movie. For myself, if we're talking Snoke, JJ is the one who squandered the opportunity to do anything cool. I came out of TFA thinking "well, that was a waste of a character." Snoke is dead weight to the narrative, and Rian cut him loose.
@jlee562
Every thing in a movie doesn't need to move the action forward. It can just add color to the world.
Yeah, I mean, that's what I said about the Canto Bight sequence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's semantic silliness to argue you were only talking about ESB. A change in ESB would have changed perception of the OT as a whole.
No, it's semantic silliness to argue that writing "...simply isn't relevant to the TLJ story the same way Palpatine's origin has no bearing on ESB and throwing out all the information about his rise to power in that movie" is somehow making a comment on ANH or the OT as a whole.
To your point about changing perceptions about the OT as a whole, the reason why I don't make that jump is because ANH was ultimately designed to be a one-and-done standalone film...one that happened into sequel that George didn't necessarily plan on making. That's a barrier in this hypothetical for me because we're not just contemplating "what if the Emperor's plotline was handled this way," we're also contemplating removing all the barriers that made Lucas think he only had one shot at the space opera thing. And I think once you do that, the hypothetical loses any value, because that's just not what happened. Lucas didn't plan a trilogy with a slow reveal to the Emperor in the third act. He planned one movie that mentioned the Emperor, then got two more with the character. Then 20 years later made three more movies to fill in the backstory.
So if you wanna play with that hypothetical, go ahead. But keep me out of it, because it's got nothing to do with my point.
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