I would love to expand on the idea of palpatine not really being himself but more of like a sith zombie. Would do wonders for the trilogy if that could be properly explained and understood within the confines of the movie itself.
I like the ambiguity of it in its current state; obviously, making another version that makes it more explicit doesn’t detract from that in any way, but I figured I should mention that what I enjoyed was the movie giving me the pieces and expecting me to make sense of them. There’s just a big difference between the pieces being a mess (ie theatrical) and the pieces being consistent and teasing a consistent bigger picture that will never be 100% clear (ie TROS:A:RN obviously, but outside of fanediting, things like Twin Peaks: The Return).
For my “sign in” slot I’d ideally like to have AI Benicio Del Toro say the following: “Libertine, standing by. Living free, joining up!”
The Libertine is the ship DJ and gang stole in TLJ and I’d love to see some redemption for his character in this film even if its more of an easter egg. The second part is the inverse of his signature phrase: “Live free, don’t join.”
I personally feel like DJ is meant to be a thematic foreshadow of Finn’s choices in TLJ; he’s what Finn could be if he doesn’t stick with the Resistance, and Finn’s arc is about him realising that he wants to stick with the Resistance. So I actually really like the idea that in the next movie, DJ has thus had a change of heart, just as a little background easter egg.