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Post #1410517

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sade1212
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
15-Feb-2021, 11:51 AM

Speaking of leaks, wasn’t there potentially a previous draft of the story where Palpatine did know about the dyad, and everything he was doing was a ruse to get Ben and Rey together so he could slurp their energy out? In the Skywalker Legacy documentary, Chris Terrio lets slip something about Palpatine knowing about the dyad at the beginning of the movie, which obviously is not true of the final edit.

Anyway, I feel like Palpatine knowing of the dyad, and that being his plan all along, is way more coherent: it gives Palpatine a singular goal (get Ben and Rey together on Exegol); explains how Kylo knows about the dyad (Palps tells him); and makes it less of a weird bit of crazy luck that Palpatine just suddenly finds a way to rejuvenate himself. It’d even create some dramatic irony/tension if the audience was clued in on this and knew Rey and Ben were headed to their doom when they rush to Exegol to face Palpatine. As a bonus, it removes any plot significance for Rey being a Palpatine, and makes it clearer why Palpatine would’ve wanted to turn Kylo to the dark side (besides it just being a middle finger to Luke, Leia and Han).

Unfortunately I don’t think there’s any feasible way to retrofit the final edit to this idea.