If we’re going to fight a battle that’s already been fought against a villain already once defeated, why not reintroduce said villain in a manner that’s poetic or prophetic akin to Voldemort in Goblet of Fire? Here, Palpatine’s integration into the narrative feels forced and — to use his terminology — unnatural. Worst of all, he’s generic. A one-dimensional villain whom we barely learn anything new about, not even how he came back of the most final of deaths that also rounded out Luke Skywalker’s character wonderfully in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
But we live in an age of Star Wars where we learn more about the characters in the extended canon than within the films themselves. ‘The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary’ has dropped and whatdoyouknow, we finally have got some answers pertaining to Emperor Palpatine’s resurrection. In the book, we learn: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is currently playing in Malaysian cinemas.
