Snoke’s death in Star Wars: The Last Jedi was undeniably memorable, as it marked a significant shift in Rey and Kylo Ren’s relationship, but his demise nevertheless felt unceremonious and sudden.

This is how the Rey films ended up with Snoke, a villaint that Star Wars' Rian Johnson thought was 'fundamentally uninteresting' despite being the main villain of the trilogy at the time and being ...