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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Did you need to know things about the Emperor before Vader killed him to make it significant?
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I would argue that it was a different age.
Movie go'ers in 1983 were a different breed then they are now. We now have people that are thirsting to know more backstory about the characters that they like. I call it the Blair Witch Syndrome.
Going back to what you're saying. We knew enough about the Emperor.
We knew he was afraid of the Jedi as a threat.
We knew that somewhere someone had under-estimated him and paid for it.
We knew that Vader who was this unbelievably powerful armored creature who could choke people to death from across vast distances and block laser bolts with his hands and make chop suey out of people with a laser sword. Served him.
However I bet that if you transported Return of the Jedi for example to today, and put it in context to today, people would have similar complaints to the Last Jedi.
Look, personally, I didn't really need Snoke's background, would it have been nice to have? Sure, but the theorizing was fun. But lets be honest, Snoke wasn't designed to be the Emperor, he was designed to be an especially powerful red shirt who was put in the script to die and ascend Kylo Ren further up that old staircase of his journey.
I've said it before, I liked TLJ, from a visual perspective, really well done, from a acting perspective they did a good job, especially Mark Hamill. But from a writing standpoint, it just seemed disjointed and honestly, a bit lazy, and the habit of liberal theft of the OT for the expressed purpose of making this both a new movie and a complete reboot of the Disney Universe is jarring and inconsistent.