I was thinking about how Krausfadr said that hopefully people would continue looking at ways to move Palpatine’s reveal to later in the movie, and I just thought of something: What if it were moved to the midpoint, right after Rey escapes the Star Destroyer? It would go something like:
- Kylo feels he’s failed at getting Rey to team up with him against Palpatine
- Kylo goes to Exegol to try and kill Palpatine by himself
- Palpatine reveals he’s dying (someone already altered that scene to have him say “I don’t have long”) and offers to make Kylo the new Emperor
- Kylo is told to kill Rey
- The next time we see him he’s on Endor, seemingly ready to do just that (we’d need to remove some dialogue, but that shouldn’t be hard because a lot of what he says in that scene is spoken off-screen anyway).
Why wouldn’t Palpatine want to do the spirit ritual with Ben if he’s dying?