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Well, with the newest trailer for "The Last jedi" we get an awfully good look at Snoke's eyes... and I think you'd agree they are blue...
So, I've had this theory about Orson Krennic being Snoke, because it seemed to me that in the novel "Catalyst" and throughout Rogue One he was being set up as the perfect candidate...
At least, until the end where Disney QUITE DELIBERATELY had him... hoisted by his own petard? That's the correct use of the saying, isn't it...? Wait, waht is that google? That's from Hamlet? What?! Wow, the more you know... so it means for the bomb-maker to be blown up with his own bomb; or in this case, for the Director of the Death Star Project to be... well... that really was QUITE a deliberate way of killing him off.
But, then again... we don't really know, do we? It's all pseudo-science, centered around a devastating energy beam super laser space station powered by the crystals used by a mystical order of space wizards specifically to make laser swords.
... now, I know, it's probably curtains for poor Orson Krennic, and him being Snoke is probably a stretch... BUT... he also seems to have... er... I mean HAVE had... blue eyes...
And then there's that quote by Maz Kanata about seeing the same eyes in different people... and then in Rogue one, there was that line "The strongest stars have hearts of kyber" ... which I'm sure was alluding to the Death Star, of course, but...
Well... I mean, I JUST watched Rogue One again the other day, only for the second time, and was like "Oh.. well... I guess that's it then... Orson Krennic can't possibly be Snoke..." thinking before that it could have been clever editing... until seeing the specific scene where the green of the Death Star's super laser is reflected in his eyes...
But now? Now Supreme Leader Snoke quite clearly has unmistakably blue eyes...
... could it all have been a clever ploy? After all, if he had once been Orson Krennic, Snoke is now most certainly a very different person.
"If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people."
There is, after all, an emphasis in this new trilogy, specifically in the newest trailer, about letting go of the past...
Kylo Ren is no longer Ben Solo.
Rey is no longer the little girl abandoned on Jakku. Likewise, she is not yet the person she is destined to be...
Luke Skywalker is no longer some farm boy on Tatooine.
Could it be so simple? That Snoke is someone new because the character is no longer Orson Krennic?
By this reasoning, however, Governor Tarkin also seems to have as similar shade of blue eyes... so it isn't a foolproof way of figuring out WHO Snoke is.
I for one do not approve of bringing back Tarkin as Snoke. I guess if done right it could be cool, but it just doesn't strike me as all that interesting a story for the new villain. Tarkin made his choice, by choosing NOT to have that one officer prepare his shuttle to evacuate. I just don't see him becoming someone like Snoke. And why the drastic name change? At least the name "Orson Krennic" could at least sound like "Snoke Ren" if pronounced with such horrific injuries as Snoke has suffered...
I suppose, ultimately, the question is simple: Which are you more likely to survive? Being aboard the Death Star when it explodes? OR being hit directly with the Death Star's kyber crystal powered super-laser? I suppose the radar dish and the rest of the top of the communication array was basically VAPORIZED but... well... kyber crystals? A light saber tends to cauterize the wounds it inflicts... so, IF a kyber crystal powered laser beam travels at X speed, how long does it take to reach it's target? Add to that the question of how an injured Cassian Andor could possibly have CLIMBED up that tower the same way as Jyn Erso; was there more than the ONE elevator that Krennic used to get up there behind Jyn? Assuming there WAS a second elevator, the question remains; Would you have enough time to reach the elevator and hit the DOWN button, while injured, after seeing the green energy beam beginning to emit from the Death Star?
This results in my first thoughts when the laser removed the top of the tower: "What? Oh, but that's a little on the nose isn't it... too bad about Krennic..." AND THEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER even though, havign watched the film a second time and seeing that Cassian and Jyn in fact DID have enough time to reach the bottom: "Wait... WAIT! What just happened?! Were Jyn and Cassian still in the elevator?! What, they can't have killed them like that... although... I guess they wouldn't have known what hit them... they'd have died knowing they succeeded... Oh, oh no wait they did make it down... huh... why not Krennic then? Phooey, he was the perfect candidate for Snoke. Ah well."
I mean, they basically killed him like Trevelyan at the end of GoldenEye... you know, where the satellite dish fell on him... if I'm remembering that correctly. I mean, it's a tried and true method of killing off bad guys -- hoisting them by their own petard, as it were -- but it's a little boring, right? And a little TOO deliberate, you know? What are they gonna do, come out and say Tarkin knew Krennic was directly on top of the tower? No, he had them target the tower because the tower was transmitting the plans. THIS being my point; "You may fire when ready." What good does taking out the tower DO when by the time it's READY to fire, the plans have already been transmitted?
The way it has been cut together, there should be ample time for Krennic to make his escape, save for the green glow reflected in his eyes. After all, HIS shuttle is at a private landing pad halfway down the tower... I mean let's face it, our heroes, and villains, have been in far more dire situations in the past, have they not?
