Snoke being an expendable character

Im more concerned about the loss of the only competent villain.
Why exactly am I supposed to look forward to Rey facing off against Ben Solo?

More like Star Stalemates...could not agree more! The loss of the main villain was maybe the worst part of this film!

As I've said elsewhere here, I think that Johnson just had a "screw it" attitude towards making this movie. So, he thought that it would be fun to kill off Snoke, so he did it. That approach is all through this movie, with Luke just tossing the lightsaber Rey gives him over his shoulder, etc.

Yeah, I don't care terribly about what happens with Kylo/Ben and Rey. Neither of them have been given the gravitas needed to make us care what happens to them. Abrams really will have to pull a master trick to pull off Episode IX. I am a writer, and I've been mulling it over in my head since Thursday, and I have absolutely zero idea how you would pull off anything compelling.

Snoke was no Sidious, Snoke was made out to be this powerful entity, but maybe he just filled a void, was an opportunist.

Palpatine always treated Anakin with respect when he was grooming him. He understood how to finess an apprentice, earn his loyalty.

You never seen Palpatine insulting Anakin, and Vader always stayed loyal.

Snoke got cocky, was full of himself, and snuffed out by his apprentice , like many other lesser Sith Lords before him.

Yeah, he was really one of the characters I was expecting more of a backstory on, especially finding out his relation to the past movies and possible affiliations with the dark side. Them disposing of him like he was nothing really turned him into a pointless character.

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I'm guessing he'll have his story told in the next movie. Otherwise, yeah, it's a total waste.

Some people will point at the OT and say "We never learned Palpatine's backstory". The thing they don't get is that the OT set up the universe and didn't owe an explanation to anyone. We know there's an emperor and he controls Vader. That's all the backstory we needed. When it comes to Snoke, we now have six movies worth of mythos to unpack and try to wedge him in. Where was Snoke during Palaptine's reign? Where was he during the Clone Wars? Was he a Sith? A fallen Jedi? I don't think any real thought was put into his character.

The thing is, he wasn't developed in TFA or TLJ. He was a pointless character in both movies. Killing him had little effect on the plot or story, I'm sad to say.

It could be a ruse.

He could still be Darth Plagueis. If he fooled Darth Sidious into believing he killed him he can very easily fool Kylo.

I mean come on, he took his time trolling Kylo with threatening to kill Rey.