>>109516414Disney for being derivative, there was never any implication that just because Sidious and Vader died that all bad guys everywhere would just give up and go home. The old Jedi and old Sith destroyed each-other, leaving the galaxy without the two most powerful force using factions. The EU introduced a slew of other kinds of bad guys, some were good and others sucked, some were derived and others weren't, but Disney, infinite in it's laziness and Abrams and Johnson, infinite in their incompetence just straight up copy-pasted Sheev, gave him an ugly butthole face and when the audience expected Snoke's existence to be somehow explained or justified in any way he just dies with the same level of handwaving nonchalance with which he was introduced.
I think it honestly would have been much more interesting if he had just been a normal non space wizard guy, just some shitbag politician or planetary governor who took advantage of the lack of leadership left after RotJ to seize power for himself. He and a group of hyper wealthy and powerful beings decide that they're well situated to steal the New Republic's nominal victory right out from under them. They found the first order and construct it's zealous beliefs from the ground up, the whole thing is a sham for the purpose of control. Something like that would have been interesting, what we got was just "hurr, Empire but BIGGERER"
