But I think Darth Vader could conceivably play a part in why Snoke looks the way he does. At least that’s not the theory I’m cobbling together here. “So, whaddya sayin’ there, pallie? That Snoke is Darth Vader? Come onnnn!” Looking a little closer, it also appears that the left side of Snoke’s face is also scarred in a manner that’s more than a little reminiscent of the scars we saw on Vader’s unmasked face. Now, this could just be a coincidence, but what if it isn’t? Why would Snoke share a scar with a man who has been dead for over three decades? One of the first things that struck me about Snoke’s appearance when I saw TFA on opening day was that he appeared to have the same massive head wound scar that we saw on Darth Vader when he had Luke remove his mask at the end of ROTJ. His rather dispassionate reaction to the loss of Starkiller Base would appear to lend support to this. It is this latter possibility that I’d like to delve into here.Īs I mentioned in my review of The Force Awakens, I get the impression that Snoke may have a completely different goal than Kylo Ren and the First Order believe him to have. The other difference, and possibly the more important one, is that, whereas the Emperor appeared as a very old man, Snoke looks far more like either a mummified humanoid – or perhaps somebody with a body that is still only partly formed. We haven’t gotten a lot of hard evidence of this yet, of course, but he certainly took the destruction of the Starkiller Base in stride at the end of TFA. First of all, Snoke seems to be far more calculating than the Emperor (who, as we learned in Return of the Jedi, was more of a classic, scenery-chewing mustache twirler whose fatal flaw was, as Luke Skywalker pointed out, his own overconfidence.) Snoke, on the other hand, seems more like he’s focused on a long game of some kind. He already has one Skywalker in his thall, and wants to destroy any other members of the family who might oppose him.īut there are already some differences that we can see between the two. He is, indeed, very much as the Emperor was when we first met him in The Empire Strikes Back – a withered old creature who clearly wields a great deal of power and influence over the movie’s villains, and who also is aware of the Force and keenly aware of the fact that it runs so strongly in the Skywalker family. At first glance, of course, the character could be mistaken for a simple replacement for Emperor Palpatine. One of the most mysterious new characters introduced in The Force Awakens is, of course, Supreme Leader Snoke. Today, I’d like to share my thoughts on a theory I’ve been developing for some time now about one of those questions. Now that we’ve all seen The Force Awakens and have begun to digest it all, there are a number of lingering, unanswered questions for us to ponder over the next year and a half until Episode 8 opens.
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