Climactic battle of the trilogy is Rey piloting a giant robot and punching Snokezilla into oblivion.
God, now I wish we’d gotten that movie instead.
I feel the opposite way, Burbin. I think that Palpatine was a bad villain for TROS precisely because he came completely out of nowhere. Removing all connections to Snoke and the First Order would only make it seem more random.
It’s like if the Empire were the main villains of ANH and ESB, and then they were sidelined in ROTJ by the Yuuzhan Vong coming out of nowhere. It would be completely nonsensical.
No, that’d be fun. I actually think the Vong coming outta nowhere in IX and having the Resistance and First Order team up fight them would’ve worked great.
TROS would have been a perfect movie for me if the Emperor stayed dead.
Someone is working on an edit that removes him.