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Soundwave said:
Insidb said:

I can't really forgive Johnson turning a bunch of key characters into superfluous characters, in his own script. The only advice I have for focusing on them is "stop hitting yourself."

Palpatine showing up in the OG trilogy is explained the prequels, and the OG trilogy films are the prequels to the new trilogy. Ergo, Johnson should have borrowed from source material that explained it or explained it himself. It's not like Lucas started with IV-VI and didn't have an explanation: he didn't have the visual effects to start with I-III.

Also, the books were better.

We didn't have the prequels for like 20 years, lol, and believe me Star Wars was much better off before them. 

Lucas made most of his shit up on the fly, researching how the OT was done, he just turned Leia into Luke's sister way later on and the earliest drafts of Empire Strikes Back does not have Darth Vader as Luke's father (Anakin is a separate character that even shows up as a Force ghost to talk to Luke, lol). 

None of the scripts/drafts had Vader listed as his father, because he wanted it to be a surprise. The cast didn't find out until premier night when watching the movie.

But do you really think he never 'planned' Vader to be Luke father? Do you know what Vader means in German/Dutch?