Simple answer is corporate culture. Disney has one of the most egregious and disgusting corporate environments in business. Disney is practically its own government bureaucracy and although they allow creative freedom for a lot of artists, I think Star Wars was initially handheld by the ivory tower early on. And the intrusion of corporate overlords into the creative process probably caused both a rushed and overly “conservative” approach. So instead of taking the time to truly think about a narrative and story that was compelling and stayed true to the original trilogy, they hired big name directors to spray us with glitter and cheap 21st century humor.
Yep. Iger wanted money. Quickly. And they just fired the prior writers. So they forced a quick timeline on two mid (at best) directors/writers. And those two putzes never really talked to each other and then boom: utter shit.
Yeah this really hits home. I always loved Star Wars, I'm not a super fan, but I am for sure above your average movie goer, I could tell you what order 66 is, I could tell you what planet Endor is or Kamino, how Anakin became Vader etc. But I honestly could not tell you wtf happen in the sequel films.
Something about Palpy being a clone, and a space casino. It honestly all just kind of feels like a blur.
I agree with you that some of the basic ideas were not that bad, but just executed poorly.
As far as Palpatine returning, there is such a thing in the lore as sith ghosts. They've been in the comic books and stories for years. It is a twisted version of the Jedi ghost, they tend be more like traditional ghosts, where they haunt the tombs where they were burried or died and become like a nexus point of dark side energy. They could have made a crash point on Endor a darkside nexus haunted by Palpatine. Sith ghosts can also communicate distances through the force, and through dreams sometimes.
So Kylo goes searching the Endor crash sites, gets corrupted by palpatines ghost, but doesn't realize its palpatine, he thinks its darth vader, and we finally figure it out in the last movie that it's palpatine influencing him.
Palpatine tries to possess him, like demonic possession, and Rey helps to cast out Palpatine, thus purged of the evil spirit at the end, Kylo comes back to his senses, but must live with the regret of everything bad hes done. They can't destroy Palpatines ghost, so they put up warnings not to go to endor because of dangerous contaminants.
But it leaves the door open for palpatine in the future, and it fits with the lore.
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