Tank Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Yeah, totally get that. I don't consider Snoke's origin to be a mystery. We never knew the Emperor's origin in the OT, and only had a very basic knowledge of Vader's. He used to be Anakin and then turned evil. Not sure why people expected more from Snoke or the Knights of Ren. I guess maybe the question of where the Knights of Ren are now, but I wonder if it's similar to Vader being a Dark Lord of the Sith. He wasn't really a Lord over anyone.The difference is, we were given the basic idea that there was once many Force users pre-Empire. That's clear as of the first act of ANH. There's a background that says The Emperor could have come up in that world. With Snoke, we're being sold on the idea that he's as powerful as The Emperor, but ROTJ made it clear that just 30 years previous Luke was pretty much it. I've said it elsewhere, but it could be answered with a throwaway lime from Kylo about how Snoke found him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lucas1138 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I think that's a legitimate gripe with Snoke's arc. It wasn't important to know where Palpatine came from because we joined the action in media res. But with Snoke, he's joining a story we've got 60 years of 'historical' knowledge of. It's a pretty big gap that this massively powerful and manipulative individual who ends up leading the remnant of the Empire isn't accounted for during that time. Even if it was something as exceedingly simple as in the crawl or an off-hand remark by Leia or whoever about Snoke being in the Unknown Regions or whatever. It doesn't make me want to #RemakeTheLastJedi, but I do find it annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 From an in-universe standpoint, everyone knows who Snoke is. So throwing in a line about where he's from makes about as much sense as Russian intelligence officers talking about Trump and then saying "You know he's from the United States?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Snoke is the Bernie Sanders of Star Wars. Some crusty old dude who came out of nowhere to become a big deal and then went away just as fast and will not be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 From an in-universe standpoint, everyone knows who Snoke is. So throwing in a line about where he's from makes about as much sense as Russian intelligence officers talking about Trump and then saying "You know he's from the United States?"Rey wouldn't know. She thought a war hero from 30 years ago was a myth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 I honestly thought Smoke would end up being so important in this trilogy. I had a theory he was Anakins father. I thought he was going to be so bad ass. But instead he died so fast without any of it meaning anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 I just think it comes down to the fact that they couldn’t provide a satisfying reason for his presence. Better to just kill him off than try to make him Darth Plagious or something even worse. He was there just because. A random Sith Lord just for the hell of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Here's my pitch for Ep. IX: Buncha stuff happens, and just when things look darkest for our heroes (at the 1:57 mark) in flies Lando with old Wicket and a huge Ewok armada! Lando explains in blatant exposition how the Ewoks evolved quickly as a tech society after the Battle of Endor and now half of them are cyborgs. Ewoks and Lando (who is married to an Ewok) save the day, roll credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 He also in the last 5 minutes raps the entire history of what happened between ROTJ and TFA. Tells us that Rey is really Luke's daughter, and there are over a hundred Skywalker kids spread throughout the Galaxy, and Snoke was just a normal guy until he walked in on Luke banging his wife, and the hatred flowed through him and filled him with the Dark Side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Let it be known that the only Dark Side that Luke ever embraced was that of Snoke's wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Young Lando is also going through enter the scene through a mysterious portal and join in the rap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 From an in-universe standpoint, everyone knows who Snoke is. So throwing in a line about where he's from makes about as much sense as Russian intelligence officers talking about Trump and then saying "You know he's from the United States?"Rey wouldn't know. She thought a war hero from 30 years ago was a myth.She thought a superhero from 30 years ago was a myth. Plus she hasn't really interacted with anyone very much, other than Finn and Luke, and has spent the past week of her life just trying to survive while learning that she's a superhero. No reason to be concerned with Snoke, and then he's dead and who cares? I think that JJ's vision was for Snoke to be the new Emperor, and probably to have some sort of backstory, but Rian didn't like that idea and did something different. Which seems to be the resounding theme, that he didn't like what JJ set up and wanted to go in a different direction. Now JJ has two choices: try to go back to his original version and make TLJ almost entirely insignificant, or pick up the pieces and go on with something new. Doing a series this way, without an overall vision, is like doing improv. You can't just say "no" you have to take what the other person did and build on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Yeah but this was like doing improv with Michael Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. It is what it is, and anyone expecting anything to change is fooling themselves and will be disappointed come Episode 9: The Coming Back of the Lando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tex Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I just think the bottom line is that there is no more story to tell. Star Wars ended in 1983 and there are varying degrees of withdrawal. It’s simply gone. Thrawn, Rey, Jason Solo, Jar Jar, it’s all shit. I love all of you guys, but it’s pure shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 He also in the last 5 minutes raps the entire history of what happened between ROTJ and TFA. Tells us that Rey is really Luke's daughter, and there are over a hundred Skywalker kids spread throughout the Galaxy, and Snoke was just a normal guy until he walked in on Luke banging his wife, and the hatred flowed through him and filled him with the Dark Side.Will he do a topless dance and call the rap This Is The Galaxy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tank Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I get your POV, but no matter what AOTC will always be the absolute worst. If THAT didn't kill Star Wars, nothing else will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Now that's what I call aggressive negotiations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lucas1138 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I'd rather shove bamboo shoots up into my nailbeds than watch AotC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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