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Originally Posted by Igottago
Disagree on this point. The emperor's back story wasn't important because at that point, there was no back story, those were the first movies. He also took up a role in all 3 movies vs the 1.5 that Snoke was around.
By this point Star Wars has been around for decades with loads of content and additional films at our disposal. Unless this is your first Star Wars movie I'm not sure how you wouldn't be wondering about his identity, given the existing lore.
As far as Rey's parents -- there's literally nothing else interesting about the character other than that bit of mystery. No dilemma, no adversity, nothing. So they gave up on something that might have given insight into the character and her motivations, and even her god like abilities.
I get that you dislike JJ Abrams setup of the trilogy -- but since this is a trilogy, I'm not sure how Rian Johnson could go and ignore virtually everything that was built up in that film and flip the script so wildly in the follow up. Its disjointed and doesn't make sense.
Like I said, if they had the guts to reset the Star Wars universe completely, episode 7 was the time to do it. Now they have this sort of half in, half out trilogy going on.
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The emperor wasn’t in IV and only as a hologram in a single scene in empire.
I’d be willing to bet he had about the same amount of screen time as Snoke in their respective trilogies.
I’m not new to Star Wars and I never really wondered about snoke’s identity at all. Big assumption that any Star Wars fan would.
As for Rey, I couldn’t disagree more that the only thing interesting about her is her parents identities. Their identities are also not interesting to me. Her longing for guidance, parental figures and her relationship with Kylo does interest me though. I see all kinds of dilemma and adversity for her. She’s also lost the only two father figures she’s ever had in back to back movies so I see more adversity for her upcoming.