How do you feel about the saga continuing without Palpatine?

I understand a happy ending override was inevitable, and I suppose we can go on without Yoda or Anakin/Vader. The problem is Palpatine being dead. He was always the main villain in the saga (even if it was offscreen in the early movies). Continuing past that feels like a post-script season. I can think of a few solutions, but none of them seem easy.

Make Snoke Palpatine. That would take away from Vader’s sacrifice.

Introduce some bigger bad whose in charge of both Snoke and Palpatine. That would feel incredibly contrived and inevitably lead to power creep.

Make Snoke a radically different villain. They don’t seem to be going that way, but at this stage, it’s hard to tell. In the end, the problem with this is that your heroes and villains are pretty set in stone by the whole light side dark side dichotomy. You can make their personalities different, but I can’t see them becoming as diverse as the villains in Batman or Doctor Who.

I as well also like it.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Palpatine . . . was always the main villain in the saga

What? Who the hell watches Star Wars, or even TESB, and sees the Emperor as the “main villain.”

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

How do you feel about the saga continuing after RotJ?

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What? Who the hell watches Star Wars, or even TESB, and sees the Emperor as the “main villain.”

He was always the main villain in the saga (even if it was offscreen in the early movies).

He was retroactively made into the big bad.

Alright, we’re all agreed. Mods please close thread.

I’m afraid you all missed the point. Of course I’m happy the saga’s continuing. I want to know how you feel about continuing it without Palpatine. I probably should’ve said in the title, but I didn’t realize that would be my one big point.

It is horribly bad so far.

That got weird.

Oh. In that case. . . .

I swear that looks like he’s saying something else. He doesn’t look disinterested. He looks scared and desperate.

I like it because the movies are good. I wouldn’t have liked it if they weren’t good.

Greatly depends on the last jedi and episode 9. On how they handle Luke, and how the force works. But I’ve seen nothing that discourages me from thinking that the sequel trilogy will be very good.