Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3

[Nerys Myk]

Though it was easily missed, they did throw in a line of dialogue about cloning... and also showed some clone tanks... with Snoke clones in them.

Add to that, he says he's died already.

And why would we be inclined to think that was his original body? With just the ends of a few fingers blown off, perhaps? The dude exploded!

Only a flesh wounds.

 

[TedShatner10]

I see a pattern in fiction that meetings or conferences amongst the bad guys belonging to despotic regimes are the most entertaining, memorable parts....

 

[Set Harth]

To my mind, it fits way better when you have knowledge of the lore

One example of this involves what happens when Rey picks up the saber. Many people decided this meant she was a Skywalker... despite the fact that nothing special took place the first time Luke touched the thing in ANH. Someone who had followed the prequel era comics, in particular the Quinlan Vos arc, would be better equipped to recognize that Rey appears to have a natural talent for psychometry. The ability manifests again in TROS when she picks up the dagger.

 

[fireproof78]

One example of this involves what happens when Rey picks up the saber. Many people decided this meant she was a Skywalker... despite the fact that nothing special took place the first time Luke touched the thing in ANH. Someone who had followed the prequel era comics, in particular the Quinlan Vos arc, would be better equipped to recognize that Rey appears to have a natural talent for psychometry. The ability manifests again in TROS when she picks up the dagger.

Yup. That's exactly how I read both scenes, which I thought was cool.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ditto. The Skywalker-centric visions happening when she picks up the lightsaber have to do with the history of the saber being Skywalker centric.

 

[JD]

Though it was easily missed, they did throw in a line of dialogue about cloning... and also showed some clone tanks... with Snoke clones in them.

Add to that, he says he's died already.

And why would we be inclined to think that was his original body? With just the ends of a few fingers blown off, perhaps? The dude exploded!

Yeah, I know those were in there, that was what I referred to when I mentioned hints and implications. I just meant that I really think they should have been more explicit with it, and gone into at least a bit more detail, so it was clear to everyone with no question that that was what was had happened.
And just because he mentioned dying doesn't automatically mean he was in a cloned body, there are plenty of other ways dead characters have come back to life in sci-fi and fantasy. Hell Star Wars already introduced one in Rebels with the World Between Worlds.

And not to sound like I disagree, but I will reiterate a point I've made before. Palpatine having Force lightning abilities completely blindsided Luke. He did not understand just how out of his depth he was until the Emperor struck. And this was a complete surprise to the audience. A lot of surprise twists are missed when audiences watch the films in numeric/chronological order instead of production order: the surprise twist that Vader is Luke's father is foremost, but the surprise twist that the Emperor could fry a person with Force lightning coming from his fingertips is another.

The twist that the Sith accumulate their masters' abilities by bodily transfer when apprentice becomes master is another similar surprise twist, a danger blindsiding the hero and us. Not realizing the nature of a danger until it's too late to avoid is perhaps one of the most frightening things imaginable.

Yeah, I like twists like that, including the whole Sith body transfer thing, but I don't really see Palpatine's return as that kind of twist.

 

[Tuskin38]

What was really silly was only having Palpatine's message to the galaxy only be in Fortnite.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

What was really silly was only having Palpatine's message to the galaxy only be in Fortnite.

It was a brazen tie-in with zero content.

 

[Turtletrekker]

It was a brazen tie-in with zero content.

Much like the movie itself.

 

[cooleddie74]

It was a brazen tie-in with zero content.

And somebody at Lucasfilm thought this would be a cool idea.

 

[thribs]

What was the message? I’ve never played Fortnight

 

[Turtletrekker]

What was the message? I’ve never played Fortnight

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[Nerys Myk]

What was the message? I’ve never played Fortnight

Buy more Ovaltine

 

[thribs]

Doesn’t sound like him.

 

[thribs]

Buy more Ovaltine

What’s that?

 

[cooleddie74]

"Go for Papa Palpatine!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

What’s that?

a drink mix.

But I was riffing on this

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[thribs]

All this talk about Seth’s Palpatine made me look him up. I had no idea there were new ones.

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[CorporalCaptain]

Much like the movie itself.

Ouch!

 

[Set Harth]

Hell Star Wars already introduced one in Rebels with the World Between Worlds.

But if someone is rescued from death by that method then they didn't actually die.