Thread:Jessanna Stansu/@comment-13636762-20190401144046/@comment-24499270-20190502030116

I'm still pretty sure he is. Sith supposedly can't come back as Force ghosts according to George Lucas, but there was an evil Sith spirit in The Clone Wars that was tethered to a specific location--its kinda hard to describe other than the Necromancer in Dul Guldur from The Hobbit movies, for lack of a better reference--so it's not like a Sith kind of coming back from the dead is unprecedented.

I love the idea that Palpatine has been the big bad behind the curtains all along, and that Snoke was simply a puppet he was using to manipulate Kylo and rule the pseudo-Empire from beyond the grave. Why else would Snoke be so obsessed with making Kylo into a new Vader? Because Palpatine can't let go of having a Vader-like apprentice as his tool, and the original Vader failed him. I mean, his entire M.O. in the prequels was corrupting Vader; every apprentice and general were almost prototypes of who Vader would eventually become. Kylo's just the latest in a long line.

Sorry, tangent. I'm probably totally wrong, but I like to theorize and dissect stuff like this for fun. Writer nerd in me. :)