Sorry, but Palpatine was one of the more brilliant aspects of the PT. And as to your earlier comment that lumped ROTJ with the PT, you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve always found ROTJ to be a fitting and well done completion of the trilogy. The Ewoks and 2nd Death Star may feel a bit contrived (and show the earliest signs of Lucas’s laziness since they are rehashed from earlier drafts of the story), but what the characters do with the situation they find themselves in is a great third act of the trilogy. And no moment of the OT is anywhere near as powerful as the final part of Luke and Vader’s duel and the following confrontation between Luke and the Emperor and the Emperor’s demise at Vader’s hands (or hand and stump maybe?).

My question about 8 and 9 is if they can make Snoke and his eventual demise even more powerful than that.