Looking back through the thread to December (which seems like forever ago), I apparently always wanted to add a substantial tease of Palpatine after the battle of Crait or during the end credits.

For the end credits, I think I felt the idea of using the Palpatine laugh at the very end would have been cool similar to the way Vader’s breathing appears at the end of TPM.

Originally there was talk of using the fortnite broadcast in its fuller form, but it didn’t quite work in the “contact scene” as constructed (although a tiny bit is used in the muffled static).

I was also really drawn to another idea: so much is made in the film of the resistance sending out a radio signal for help, hoping for a response which tragically never comes. What would really twist the knot would be if they did get a response, and it was Palpatine’s broadcast. It would be an extreme low point for our heroes, but there was no practical way to pull it off.

I think when I heard Hal and others were considering using the broadcast for the star destroyers rising out of the ground in TROS, I realized we didn’t need it in TLJ after all as that was such a better placement for it.