Alternatively, I would like to see if you could have Palpatine in TROS, “My boy, I trained Snoke.”
The idea that Snoke was just another apprentice of Palpatine, like Maul, Dooku or Vader before him would make the Snoke-Palpatine connection a lot simpler than Palpatine saying he made him. Him making Snoke still leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions. Who is Snoke a clone of? Why did he have multiple clones of him? Why did Palpatine puppeteer him in particular? Etc, etc. Did Snoke know he was being controlled by Palpatine, or did Palpatine control him completely?
I also think Snoke having his own agency keeps Kylo killing him feel like a big accomplishment rather than just another test by Palpatine.
That’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to do. Is there any instance of Palpatine saying “trained” that would work here?
I think you’d have to make a frankenbite. He says “train” and “training” a bunch in the other trilogies… but I don’t think he ever uses past tense.
I’ve separated the dialogue pretty well, but haven’t indexed it or anything. If you tell me where to grab I can possibly send you the line.