This will give you an idea of what I meant in the beginning when I said we're a passionate bunch who love to debate where this amazing franchise is going. You can check out some of the fan theories about Palpatine from the 90's here on this forum. This, my friends, as we find out in The Rise of Skywalker, is not actually all that far off from how Snoke came to be in existence, as we now know the Supreme Leader was nothing more than a clone and Palpatine's puppet. So surely the Supreme Leader had to be new and unconnected, right?Īs it happens, way back in 1998 on a Star Wars forum, one fan theorized that Sidious had cloned himself to make the senator and had then essentially had the poor senator do his dark bidding in the open instead of him orchestrating it in secret in the darkness. A lot of people were convinced that he couldn't be connected to the Emperor because, after all, he was thrown into the reactor core of the Death Star. ![]() Of course, as it turned out, the answer was in fact the simple one staring us in the face all along ,leaving us all feeling a bit like Ace Ventura with his Ray Finkle revelation, because Palpatine is Sidious, Sidious is Palpatine.īefore we go on to look at the theory about the Emperor that ended pretty much being right about the backstory for Snoke, let's have a look at the Supreme Leader himself, because in the leadup to both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, many of us started coming up with our own theories about him much like we had done for Palpatine. Others thought that maybe Palpatine was in league with him somehow and was helping to achieve his master plan. People theorized a lot of different things, but they all had one thing in common: the good senator was in someway connected to Darth Sidious.Ī lot of people had thought that perhaps Palpatine was completely innocent and was being manipulated by the Dark Lord of the Sith much in the same way the Jedi were revealed to have been. Many people thought that him actually being the Emperor was far too straightforward, whilst some thought that no other answer was even possible. In the leadup to The Phantom Menace, there were a lot of theories flying around about Senator Palpatine and who he was. RELATED: How Palpatine Was Betrayed By His Most Trusted Ally In 'Star Wars' I am going to look at a theory that emerged about the prequel trilogy surrounding Palpatine and his true identity that actually whilst wildly off the mark about the prequels actually just about uncovered the identity of Supreme Leader Snoke in a way almost two decades before he was even thought of. And it is one of those inadvertent happy accidents that I am going to bring to your attention here. Sometimes one of us manages to hit the nail on the head, sometimes intentionally and sometimes inadvertently. Star Wars theorists tend to have a million and one wild ideas about where the saga has gone, is going, and might be going.
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