I don't think there was any way that Palpatine was always the plan, he wasn't even hinted at for the first two movies. After Rian Johnson went rogue they were forced to bring back a villain that exploded in an energy shaft on a space station that also exploded shortly thereafter as an absolute Hail Mary. The lack of coherency among all these movies is jarring and just really amateurish, how do you not lay out a coherent plan and arc across all three movies if you want to do trilogies, that's like step 1.
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