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Originally Posted by sureLoss
I am fine with the way they handled Snoke.
If you watch the original trilogy, the Emperor was handled in a similar way. Very little was revealed about him and IIRC they never even called him by name (Palpatine or Darth Sidious). His back story came out in the expanded universe and prequels.
They will probably have supplemental material (novels, comics, animated shorts, etc) explaining Snoke's origins. Which given how badly some people want to know his story, might be a genius marketing ploy.
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Yes and no. If that's to be the case, then they didn't really handle Snoke in the same way. Palpatine's character was enriched by the prequel series and we were fortunate to be able to view the same actor partake in that portrayal even though it was a couple decades later. In the case of Snoke- the "prequel" trilogy already exists, it's called the Original Trilogy. There don't seem to be any films on the horizon that will make this guy any more significant to us than he already is. So in my mind it's somewhat unfortunate that instead of becoming a brooding villain that we fear, and against whom the resistance must rally in Episode IX, Snoke has instead become some afterthought that may or may not be elaborated on in ancillary lore. If anything he's maybe been treated more like Darth Maul in that way- an intriguing character who dies right away and gets expanded upon in a cartoon series.
I personally don't read the comics or novels, so it's disappointing to me that from the standpoint of the primary film series, we've seemingly seen the last of what could have been a significant figure in the SW universe.