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omnimuffin
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Redux Ideas thread
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4-Jun-2020, 11:20 AM

OobeDooby said:

I wonder if we can expand on Palpatine in Episode 9 ? Make it 100 % clear that Palpatine IS A CLONE. NO RITUAL BULLSHIT PALPTINE JUST WANTS REVENGE ON LUKE. Maybe we can have Palpatine reveal to Rey that it was Palpatine that put fake dreams into Luke about Ben going evil ? Reveal that Palpatine not only was pulling the strings on Ben but also EVERYONE ELSE

The canon stuff establishes that Palpatine had already been whispering in Ben’s ear since he was a boy (the movies at the very least imply this, with Leia’s mentions about Snoke corrupting him from the beginning, etc). They weren’t ‘fake dreams’. Luke genuinely did look into Ben’s mind and see how far he’d already fallen, swiftly followed by a very real vision of the future he would (and did) bring. His reaction was what pushed Ben over the edge, but Ben genuinely already was extremely troubled, and removing that factor from him cheapens him as a character, IMO.