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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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We found out everything we needed to know about the Emperor in this dialoug:
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Governor Tarkin:
The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
General Tagge:
But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Governor Tarkin:
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
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We know he is in charge, he was presumably head of the council that governed over something called the Old Republic, and that he was powerful enough and had the means to dissolve any opposing government. This took all of 20 seconds of screen time, and tells the audience all they really need to know.
With Snoke we didn't even get that kind of info, and it is far more important because we aren't diving into an unknown universe like we did with the original trilogy. The audience expects some details between when we last saw our Jedi friends celebrating the downfall of the enemy, to now when an entire new evil empire has arrived. If they could have pulled it off in 20 seconds of dialoug, then that would have been all the better.