Q&As About 'Star Wars': Why was the character Snoke such a letdown in Star Wars: The Last Jedi after his build-up in The Force Awakens?
Why was the character Snoke such a letdown in Star Wars: The Last Jedi after his build-up in The Force Awakens? There wasn’t any build-up. As Yoda might tell you, “Only build-up, in your mind it was.” Supreme Leader Snoke did not have much of a role in Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens. He appears only in a few brief scenes as an imposing-looking hologram, utters a few Palpatine-lite lines to General Hux and Kylo Ren, and gives a few plot-necessary orders to his minions. The heroes of the Resistance only refer to him once, and that’s when Leia reminds Han that it was Snoke who turned their son Ben into his Vader-wannabe Dark Side apprentice. He never wields a lightsaber like Kylo Ren’s idol, the aforementioned Darth Vader, and he’s not present on Starkiller Base when the First Order uses its superweapon to decimate the New Republic. That’s it. I don’t see any evidence of a huge character build-up. Look, the problem with Sequel Trilogy dislikers is that they do