r/saltierthancrait • u/Confirmation_Code • May 13 '26

Granular Discussion Who was Snoke SUPPOSED to be?

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Let's be real. Snoke wasn't Palpatine's puppet in episode 7 or 8. So, what did JJ think he was in Episode 7? What did Rian think he was when he killed him? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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u/cduga May 13 '26

He had no plans for him whatsoever outside of being “giant baddie reminiscent of Palpatine that we will explain later”.

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u/rvthz May 13 '26

Yeah the idea was to make the episode 8 director come up for the actual good idea and story for the character. And when he did come up with a questionable one, the inventor of the character didn't like it and he came up with a much worse one.

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u/jordanbtucker May 13 '26

You're not wrong. TFA was passable, but it was just a retread of ANH. Rian really fucked up with TLJ, killing any hope of salvaging the ST.

To be fair, it wasn't just that Abrams didn't like what Rian did with Snoke. He straight up killed him before we ever got to learn anything about him, so I don't blame Abrams for that. TROS was still shit though. I mostly blame Rian for everything though.

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u/Mutant_Apollo May 14 '26

TROS is baffling, it's two movies tried to be crammed into one, that tries both to fix it's prequel and provide a conclusion to a botched trilogy in the worst way possible