(SPOILERS!!!!) Snoke - The greatest dud in cinematic history.

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2017)

I was initially about to do a full review but I changed my mind. Instead I will just say a few words on Snoke. Because from Snoke's death onwards The Last Jedi turned sower and sower.
So, Snoke, a character that has triggered the imagination of fans. A character so full of mistery and potential that fans spent two years creating the best and worst theories of who he is. THIS SHOULD HAVE GIVEN RIAN JOHNSON A CLUE AS TO WHY HE SHOULD REALLY DEVELOP THIS CHARACTER.
But no, no, what does this idiotic director do? He looks at all the theories and with an evil laughter to rival Palpatine just pisses all over the fans and subsequently the character.
Some people will defend this move by saying that Johnson symbolically told us the fans to "let the past die, kill it" and focus on the future, a move he did with Luke as well but this falls flat on its ass because Snoke's death, with Snoke being undeveloped, feels like a plot device. In fact, Snoke, as he is now, IS A PLOT DEVICE.
Why? Because he is just a rehash of Palpatine, a generic dark side user, arrogant and stupid, taken by Johnson and turned into a plot device to hammer down his point. If Snoke mattered, if his backstory connected all 3 trilogies, like the Skywalkers, if Snoke's death happened in ep. IX, then this move would have been a masterpiece. Instead we got a dud!
Other people will also say: well, Palpatine never had a backstory, so it didn't really matter in Return of the Jedi.
To this I will say, Palpatine was pivotal to Vader and Luke, Palptine was the make or break of both Vader and Luke, Snoke isn't pivotal to anything. He was just the way to bringing Ben and Rey together and that is it. Again, Snoke - plot device.
So, by the fact that Snoke isn't developed at all; who he is and how powerful he is? How is he connected to the Force? How come he was alive to witness the rise and fall of the Empire? How come Palpatine never felt him and so on? - this just makes Snoke feel like a plot device and not a character to be invested in.
And again, YOU DON'T KILL A CHARACTER THAT FANS ARE IN LOVE WITH, 5 MINUTES INTO HIS SCREENTIME. It's just a bad move!
Because of this, Snoke will remain as the greatest dud in cinema's history!