I don’t plan to remove the blue smoke from poppasketti in any event, no.
Another thing is that Palpatine wanting Rey dead at the start of TROS is consistent with Snoke/Palpatine sincerely ordering her execution. His change of mind is still baffling in any event.
Pretty sure that months ago somebody outlined Palpatine’s plan but here it goes again.
- Palpatine puts all of his effort into corrupting Ben Solo.
- Palpatine wants Snoke to have Kylo kill Rey because he is planning on essence transferring into Kylo
- He had already put a ton of effort into corrupting Kylo, so yet again he tells him to kill Rey.
- Kylo realigns himself with the light, and Palpatine senses it. His new goal is to corrupt Rey and essence transfer into her.
One thing that kinda blows out any logic is the whole transfer thing. If there is a transfer … then … they turn into Palps AKA All the Sith/Whatever. So in a sense … it’s a take over. Even if it is not his specific consciousness … then it’s the influence of ALL the Sith, so it’s still a “win” for the Sith. Whoever get’s that transfer becomes The Sith Guy TM. So wouldn’t not matter who it is?
If Kylo slices Palps, he takes over Kylo. Now Kylo/Palps/Sith all faces Rey. Whoever wins, The Palpy/Sith All either stays or takes over. The only possible “lose” scenario is if he gets hit by his own lighting? I guess?
One of the reasons I don’t like this concept JJ and crew came up with.