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For years, the question of Palpatine’s survival lingered, with many fans pointing out the glaring gaps in the storyline. The Rise of Skywalker barely acknowledged how the Emperor returned, instead opting to leave it as an unresolved mystery. It wasn’t until a recent blog post from Star Wars' official site—titled Inside Intel—that Lucasfilm finally laid out a detailed, though heavily convoluted, explanation.
This delay has frustrated fans who felt it was an unnecessary retcon to sustain a storyline critics already deemed incoherent. As one observer put it, it’s akin to "sitting down and finally figuring out how to revive a story that was left hanging," suggesting that Lucasfilm was only trying to justify storyline choices long after the fact.