10 Awful Movie Retcons That Pissed Off Everybody
4. The Dead Speak! - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Remember how episodes I-VI established the life story of Anakin Skywalker and his struggles with the dark side? How it all ended so positively with him defeating evil Emperor Palpatine to save his noble son Luke? How he died so that his children may re-establish an honourable Republic?
The geniuses behind the new trilogy apparently don’t.
Not only did the Empire never really cease and desist their fascistic ways in the 30 years since Anakin’s death but old Sheev’s still kicking too. So not only did Palpatine survive falling to his death and the weird explosion that followed, he also survived the total annihilation of the Death Star Part II and subsequently being trapped out in space (probably via that Superman flight of Leia’s in The Last Jedi).
Since then he’s been living quietly, shacked up to the galaxy’s largest dialysis machine and making much of the events in the previous 2 trilogies completely pointless.
Presumably in an attempt to make amends for Rian Johnson’s shock value attempt murder of Snoke, it is revealed here that Snoke is but an extension of Palpatine, denying us any fresh new villain for the new films in a desperate crack at more nostalgia.