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I felt like Palpatine had no business coming back and it really raises more questions for me than it answers. So if he could cheat death the whole time, that REALLY changes the context of The Return of the Jedi. And it makes me wonder who the people on Sith-planet were... presumably some sort of evil clones? And he just Dark Side-Forced the entire Last Order fleet into existence? I feel like that undermines any potential message about the allure of fascism that the previous Star Wars movies had hinted towards: the Empire had broad appeal and a lot of loyal supporters. The First Order took advantage of the government's collapse to prop up a new dictator. The Last Order... just kind of magics itself into existence and its members count even less than clone troopers? It felt like the filmmakers were going out of their way to avoid making any sort of political statement. I have to give the prequel trilogy props for at least trying to say something!
Palpatine encouraging Luke to kill him in Return of the Jedi is a really interesting thing for him to do, especially when you think of the character as normal/mortal. The idea that the act of personally killing even the most justifiably evil person is an act that would taint oneself and take them to the dark side. When this movie calls back to it, even with the Emperor telling Rey she should kill him, Rey just bounces-back his lightning to kill him and I guess that doesn't count as her sullying herself with darkness? Come on, I feel like she still is the one responsible for his death.

And Leia did Jedi training and had a lightsaber? I don't like it just because it felt like it undermines her role in the first two sequel films. She can be force sensitive, sure, but I liked seeing that she fulfilled her purpose in life as a military tactician and leader which the movie treated as being a totally valid path, different from the Jedi. But NOPE, I guess she had to be a Jedi too for some reason? And would her ghost have really been happy about having her lightsaber buried on Tatooine? A planet that AFAIK she only visited briefly and was enslaved?