Snoke sure seemed to be a mere meat puppet in a cursory reading of TROS, IMHO. He’s every voice in Kylo’s head and essentially just Palpatine with a paper mask. And if that’s so, it makes little sense that Snoke seemed acutely aware of Rey and Kylo’s connection and Palpatine seems surprised by their dyad-ness. Unless the dyad thing was just like, “Oh, well I didn’t know it was THAT far.”
All this is why TROS initially made me feel like Doc Brown at the start of Back to the Future III.
Lol Hal, I know what you mean!
Also, despite the enormous amount of discourse lately, we’re all here because we believe that what you’ve done is way better than the original film. So thank you!
(If doing these edits doesn’t kill you, surely the frenzied debates will.)