Snoke is just so...so weird looking. He looks damaged, but he also doesn't quite look like either a human or any other alien I'm aware of. Someone on tumblr pointed out he has a scar in a similar place to one of Vader's - they were trying to posit that he (somehow) is Anakin/Vader - but it made me wonder all the more if "Snoke" isn't a Wizard of Oz scenario. Like, whoever he is, he made an image that was intended to make Kylo think of the Emperor (and maybe an unmasked Vader as well), without being so much the same that it wouldn't be believable.
(And part of me wants that not to be what Snoke really looks like because Star Wars has this longstanding problem with Evil Makes You Ugly which has all kinds of unfortunate implications. Someone in universe playing on that idea would be at least a little better.)
Yeah, he doesn't have the presence/power/something to make his outbursts look cool and impressive rather than like tantrums. ... Actually, I'm really curious about Kylo's training. He seems to have a lot of, er, Force Use powers - pulling information out of people's minds, freezing people in place, freezing blaster bolts in place, etc, but his lightsaber fighting seems...less practiced? I mean, we only see him fight after he's been injured, and he may not have seen Finn as much of a threat, but he fights like his saber - it's impressive looking, but maybe not put together that well. (Kudos to the people doing the fight choreography there.)
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Date: 2016-01-19 08:10 pm (UTC)(And part of me wants that not to be what Snoke really looks like because Star Wars has this longstanding problem with Evil Makes You Ugly which has all kinds of unfortunate implications. Someone in universe playing on that idea would be at least a little better.)
Yeah, he doesn't have the presence/power/something to make his outbursts look cool and impressive rather than like tantrums. ... Actually, I'm really curious about Kylo's training. He seems to have a lot of, er, Force Use powers - pulling information out of people's minds, freezing people in place, freezing blaster bolts in place, etc, but his lightsaber fighting seems...less practiced? I mean, we only see him fight after he's been injured, and he may not have seen Finn as much of a threat, but he fights like his saber - it's impressive looking, but maybe not put together that well. (Kudos to the people doing the fight choreography there.)