It would be ok to hint of a sinister and mysterious dark force out there for Ren to go investigate. But better to not imply it’s Palpatine. He should have never been a part of the trailers, Fornite, or the opening crawl. Imagine if they had kept that reveal a secret. I think the key to a good TROS edit is to see how long the reveal of Palp can be reasonably delayed.
That’s fair. It’s a good question; what if Palpatine has been kept out of all of the trailers, games, and the opening crawl? The thing is, I think it would have fallen flat for me. It would feel like they just introduced it so we can have a new bad guy, rather than it being part of the story the whole time.
I would like to tease something at the end of TLJ.