Thread:Jessanna Stansu/@comment-13636762-20190401144046/@comment-1672596-20190502233906

Jessanna Stansu wrote: 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. :) And that's not even getting into the entity in the Dark Cave on Dagobah either. Plus, even under Lucas's control, apparently Lucas was the one who suggested that Palpatine return from the grave via cloning (not to mention Palpatine explicitly using force ghosts to possess the clones and latter attempt to do so via Anakin Solo), so I'm not too sure about whether to take him seriously there.

Still, Palpatine coming back is a shock. Don't know if its a ghost or not, though I'm doubtful he's using Snoke (especially when the Expanded Edition of The Last Jedi indicated he was familiar with him on his dying moments). And besides, Snoke didn't seem to utilize much of Palpatine's nature.