Leading up to Palpatine’s ultimate victory aka the Rise of Skywalker, the Fandom Menace was greeted nearly weekly with fresh leaks coming out of the movie’s production. Some obviously from disgruntled employees, but at a certain point, even the channels covering and delivering the leaks began to suspect at least some of them were being released intentionally by Disney. In an effort to gauge the hardcore Star War’s fans reactions to the movie that continued to test poorly with test audiences.
Aside from leaks of how poorly the movie was being received and the rumored Lucas cut of the film, nearly all of the details being leaked were panned by the community. Even the movie’s paid shills and various defenders claimed the details were so bad they could not possibly be real and obviously had to have been made up for views.
With a reception that bad Disney should have simply released the Lucas Cut of the film. Yet Iger and Kennedy both wanted to complete their identity politics trilogy, so a hybrid cut of the Iger and J.J versions was spliced together and released to theaters. To even the surprise of J.J. Abrams.
As for the offending scenes and details, Disney’s solution was simply to remove them. Even though it made the movie a confusing mess that offered no determinable reason for anything being as it was, that was their path forward.
One of the most significant details cut was how Palpatine survived. In the leaks, the latest Palpatine was a clone created by a Sith Cult to steward the Sith into a golden age, but the movie revealed none of this. Now according to reporting from Screen Rant the official novelization of The Rise of Skywalker has confirmed what Doomcock and Midnight’s Edge previously leaked.
“All the vials were empty of liquid save one, which was nearly depleted. Kylo peered closer. He’d seen this apparatus before, too, when he’d studied the Clone Wars as a boy. The liquid flowing into the living nightmare before him was fighting a losing battle to sustain the Emperor’s putrid flesh.
“What could you give me?” Kylo asked. Emperor Palpatine lived, after a fashion, and Kylo could feel in his very bones that this clone body sheltered the Emperor’s actual spirit. It was an imperfect vessel, though, unable to contain his immense power. It couldn’t last much longer.”
Why Palpatine in the movie had all the injuries that he sustained during his fight on the Death Star before his original death is not explained. Probably because Disney is hoping anyone still supporting Star Wars franchise just forgets that occurred in the first place. Sadly for Disney, they succeeded. What was once franchise that could not die is now nothing more than a forgettable dribble that people only remember when news like this comes up.
(Thanks for the news tip msd)
