Or that's what Kylo is led to believe. TFA suggests that "Vader" has also communed with Kylo and we now know that voice is actually Sidious. I don't see why Snoke's voice would be anything different. The implication in TROS is clear, it was all Sidious. Now the EU may not follow that implication but I'd like to see concrete evidence otherwise.
I'll be curious to see how the Snoke/Palpatine dynamic is fleshed out in the future.
In lieu of Palpatine's line in RoS, where he claims to be 'every' voice Kylo has 'ever' heard in his head, we know that Snoke himself was also capable of reading Kylo's thoughts/emotions, and had very powerful telepathic abilities(even Rey noted that Snoke's TP was immensely beyond Kylo's.)
Aside from that, the Visual Dictionary states that Snoke's primary role was to essentially groom Kylo into the next Sith Emperor -- and in RoS itself, Palpatine tells Kylo: "Snoke trained you well." IOW, it's clear that even though Snoke was a clone that Palpatine engineered, he was still acting fully independent from Palpatine the entire time. Moreover, Snoke also possessed the power to telepathically communicate with Kylo himself... Why would Palpatine trust him to groom/train Kylo for all those years, but not trust him to have random TP convos?
Granted, Palpatine obviously *could* telepathically speak to Kylo under the guise of Snoke and Vader, but does that mean he was literally the only being who ever communicated with him in such a way? I'm not so sure.
Hopefully the novelization(and maybe even this comic series) gives us a bit more insight. /shrug
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I do not believe Palpatine was responsible for literally every single interaction with Kylo, and indeed the comic makes it clear that Snoke is the one directly involved with turning Ben to the dark side and orchestrating this whole plot. Sure, Palpatine”s patient hand was always behind Snoke”s own goals and actions, but the latter is ultimately an independent entity acting in the galaxy in lieu of Palpatine doing the dirty work himself, (beyond speaking to Kylo masquerading as Vader).
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While I agree with your sentiment, i don”t think you can draw a clear comparison given a beaten/injured Kylo absolutely slaughtered the KOR in 10 seconds flat after receiving the lightsaber from Rey. Luke”s performance was probably more impressive, but you can”t really say Kylo is nothing to Luke given the two fights alone.
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Yeah, it was very obvious that Luke(even when restraining himself as to not kill them) was still SO far above the KoR that they didn't even begin to compare to him on any conceivable level.
In fact, the final page of their 'battle': (please log in to view the image)
The KoR's abilities were literally infantile in comparison to Luke. It was a glimpse of the bonafide 'Jedi Master' that I've been waiting to see appear in Disney canon.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Jan 9th, 2020 at 05:47 PM
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Yes. I'm pretty sure Ren is supposed to be one of the key players who fully seduces Kylo over to the dark side. Who better to help do that then someone who reminds Kylo of himself?
Oh I would have much rather seen this Luke in the films instead of the emotionally broken, facepalm-inducing version Rian gave us instead... But here we are.
I'll take it, though.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Jan 9th, 2020 at 09:06 PM
Jan 8th, 2020 09:28 PM
I do not believe Palpatine was responsible for literally every single interaction with Kylo, and indeed the comic makes it clear that Snoke is the one directly involved with turning Ben to the dark side and orchestrating this whole plot. Sure, Palpatine”s patient hand was always behind Snoke”s own goals and actions, but the latter is ultimately an independent entity acting in the galaxy in lieu of Palpatine doing the dirty work himself, (beyond speaking to Kylo masquerading as Vader).
