Caffeinated Clint
The more the film tries to back peddle it’s way out of the sewer pipe, the worse it gets.
Speaking, of course, about depression-spiker “The Rise of Skywalker” which left the vast majority of us scratching our heads upon exiting the theater – and for weeks after – back in December.
Remember how The Emperor suddenly… astonishingly… returned?
Yep, well besides being a last-minute addition (Colin Trevorrow’s original script for the film makes much more sense than what we got), Lucasfilm now tell us that the Emperor we saw cackling away in “Rise” wasn’t the same chap that was tossed away by his student at the end of “Return of the Jedi”.
Nope, according to the upcoming novel adaptation of the film, our latest Palpatine was a Clone.
Although the novelization doesn’t hit until March 17, Lucasfilm sold some advance copies to attendees at a convention in Chicago this past weekend.
Here’s the passage in it that declares the crumbly-looking dick was merely xeroxed.
“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.”
With this new revelation, more questions are raised, like ‘so are there other Clones out there of ol’ Palps’? and ‘Um… so Rey wasn’t even really related to that guy, after all? So, why bother!?’.
Why bother, indeed.
