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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This was my take too - the only direct shot at TLJ was on the Light Speed suicide attack being a 1 in a million shot.
Outside of that though I thought it supported the TLJ really well and pretty much all the character arcs, and character growth, of the main characters directly carried over into this one.
I guess it also depends on if you truly thought if they were going to have Rey's lineage be truly random or if that was the red herring to set up the "twist" in this one.
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Disney tried to distance themselves somewhat from the TLJ. However, looking back on it, I wonder how many of the more controversial points in the TLJ were put in purposely to misdirect for planned twists in the RoS. It may have always been the plan to have Snoke and Rey's story line directly tie into Palpatine, and the "twists" in TLJ were just meant to distract from that.
I would have like more of an explanation about how Palpatine survived and what he did since RotJ. Maybe we'll get that in an expanded accompaniment.