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Originally Posted by blankall
So the plan all along was to introduce Phasma and Snoke and just kill them off, as some kind of fake out to the audience?
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Why assume a movie is bad or incoherent just because it did something you didn't expect?
It's a very ungenerous interpretation of the film. Having your expectations and assumptions about the future upended in itself is not a bad thing, as I said I actually quite enjoyed the subversion of expectation.
Snoke dying was required to move Kylo from a bottom rung Star Wars villain to a top tier one. That moment after the big fight when Rey peps up and says now lets go save the day, then her face as she realizes that isn't the story shes in, and Kylo finally voicing this allusive motivation of the Sith in a way you can believe. It's really the best moment in Star Wars for me. It just blows me away that people hate the death of Snoke because its not the story they expected.
Planned or not I'm pretty excited to see what they do with Kylo as a character that looked redemption in the face and turned away from it, now we know this isn't the Darth Vader story, where in the last moment the character will find their way back to the light side through compassion for someone else.