The “somehow he returned” betrays bad writing. Palpatine returning invalidates movies 1 - 6, Anakin’s redemption, Luke’s journey. It invalidates “I am your father” completely because who cares that Vader is his father when ultimately he does jack shit by sacrificing himself to kill one of many Palpatine’s bodies. Suddenly the story stops being Anakin is the chosen one, it starts being “let’s do this again ahyuk”
The “somehow he returned” betrays bad writing. Palpatine returning invalidates movies 1 - 6, Anakin’s redemption, Luke’s journey. It invalidates “I am your father” completely because who cares that Vader is his father when ultimately he does jack shit by sacrificing himself to kill one of many Palpatine’s bodies. Suddenly the story stops being Anakin is the chosen one, it starts being “let’s do this again ahyuk”
Oh it’s a shitty story no doubt.
I’m just arguing against this notion that Palpatine was put back on the screen with zero explanation of how he returned from the dead.