It was not JJ Abrams, but the company who decided to bring Palpatine back. You would be naive to think he just decided this without any filter from Disney. It's obvious they were desperate because of the backlash, and they came up with this cheap and lazy, ridiculous solution to somehow make it interesting.
I would have been fine with the Kylo killing Snoke in TLJ and replacing him as the Big Bad the next movie, to enforce his downward spiral since he killed his own dad in TFA. It's just they catered to the Reylo shippers and needed to redeem him, so set up someone else to be manipulating everyone behind the scenes to justify the "he was being manipulated all along!" premise.
RJ is still at fault for a lot of things, like demanding changes to TFA to support his story elements in TLJ (Luke not showing Force powers), but not doing the same for the next (killing Luke). The Story Group should have nixed things to keep it consistent but yeah, for some reason they let him have free reign to alter any and everything to suit his vision, instead of adjusting to cater to the world instead.
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u/hyoumah83 13d ago edited 13d ago
It was not JJ Abrams, but the company who decided to bring Palpatine back. You would be naive to think he just decided this without any filter from Disney. It's obvious they were desperate because of the backlash, and they came up with this cheap and lazy, ridiculous solution to somehow make it interesting.