We had this bright idea back in June, but it seems to be doing the rounds again. Though we can't credit the new suggestion that Finn is Windu's son (like all people of colour in the galaxy are related)...
Original story: Samuel L Jackson's vociferous insistence that his Star Wars character, Mace Windu, is still alive has got us thinking.
If the Jedi Master – last seen electrocuted by Palpatine's Force lightning and thrown from a high window on Coruscant – has indeed somehow survived as he claims, could he be the answer to one of the enduring mysteries of The Force Awakens and the upcoming Star Wars films?
(Warning: Contains wild speculation on Star Wars Episode 8 and beyond.)
No, we don't mean that he is Rey's father. But could he be the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke, master of tyrannical Empire replacement the First Order?
Hear us out before you decide we're total fruitcakes. (Then you can decide we're nuts.)
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If Windu survived, why didn't he ever join the Rebellion or involve himself in the attempts to revive the Jedi? Imagine him, horribly broken, scarred and embittered, slowly falling to the Dark Side and lurking in the shadows as he watched events play out in the post-Revenge of the Sith galaxy. That would explain Snoke's knowledge of Darth Vader and the Empire.
Maybe they don't look much alike, but Snoke himself is a broken husk of a man, and Windu's fall wouldn't have done anything to help his looks. And in the scene when he "died", we saw just what horrible effects Dark Side powers can have on a person.
Nor do we necessarily know exactly what Snoke looks like. We're guessing he isn't as tall as his projection suggested. Maybe Andy Serkis, the Prince of Mo-cap, was a decoy casting (like one of Amidala's decoy princesses), with Jackson waiting to step out from behind the proverbial curtain.
The corruption of Ben Solo and persecution of Luke and Leia could be explained as revenge for Anakin Skywalker's betrayal and the whole unfortunate dismemberment/defenestration thing. And who could really blame Windu for that?
Or maybe Jackson was just trying to salvage something from the bad memories of his character in the ill-fated Star Wars prequel trilogy. Who can possibly say?
Star Wars Episode 8 will be released on December 15, 2017.
