Thread:Red Chevalier/@comment-24097388-20200126015727

So let's discuss about Palpatine's fate in the movie. You mention how the TROS opened up the possibility of his fate and how he may not be dead, but I ask how is this the case? The ending doesn't really leave much to intepret here. All we see is that he gets his own lightning blasted back at him and he's vanquished. The movie then wraps things up like how it did with ROTJ, with everyone celebrating the death of Palpatine and concluding the story.

Now before you bring up how he survived his initial death on Endor, it's not properly explained how he came back to begin with. From what we can tell based on how he's hooked up to a machine and is all decayed, he may have found a way to bring himself back to life, but how he did this is still unclear. 