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| Topic | Snoke's identity was fundamentally uninteresting to Rian Johnson *spoilers* |
| marthsheretoo 03/24/21 10:33:24 PM #48: | I never had a problem with treating Snoke as the boring emperor ripoff he was. Killing him off for Kylo was the right move. But the very nature of his existence is something that needs to be accounted for, if your goal is to build a coherent universe. The Emperor doesn't need this treatment; if you establish there's an empire, there has to be someone at the head. That's just a natural consequence of the world you've built. But once you start adding history to an established setting, you need to explain what's going on. Who is the person who rose to power over the imperial remnant, and how did he do it? That's an interesting question, even if you don't want it to draw focus. If you make him super old, make him strong in the force, and give him a bunch of lines about witnessing the rise and fall of the empire, it really does provoke the question of why he didn't insert himself into the galactic situation before, and why he's chosen to now. I can easily understand why paying no attention to these questions could rub people the wrong way. --- "Even MarthKoopa has jumped on the MarthKoopa hate wagon." -DevsBro ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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