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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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This is such a tired point to explain the lazy writing in the Disney series. We need to know about Snoke, because not knowing creates major gaps in the narrative.
In the original trilogy, we had a bad guy who fit the classic evil trope. You could have him there without a gap in the narrative, as we had nothing from before the original series. Although we were curious about the Emperor, his backstory wasn't essential to the rest of the plot.
With the Disney trilogy, we've already had 2 trilogies before. TFA gave us brief details as to how Snoke and the First Order came to be, but we have massive gaps. At the end of ROTJ, we had a happy ending where everything seemed good. We now end up with a new set of bad guys. We also have Snoke who has been around since before the original trilogy and supposedly breaks the "Rule of two", which was a major plot point in the prequels. We were also given an incomplete origin story for Kylo Ren. Luke attacks him, thus turning him from Luke, but how did he end up making contact with Snoke? So by not giving us anything on Snoke, Disney has left out major storytelling relating to all 3 trilogies.
The issue is that Disney is giving us part of the story. With the Empire in the Original Series, we didn't need to know more, as his backstory was not important to the already established narrative.
It's just lazy writing. The writers obviously didn't bother to link the new movie to the source materials, including TFA, which it was a direct sequel to. It's obvious from Johnson's interview, that his intention was not to leave this for a third film. Although I see Disney retconning this in third film. Most likely we'll learn more about Snoke while the Knights of Ren are being fleshed out....at least I hope so, because the Knights of Ren were another major plot point that Disney chose not to pursue.