Did anyone else think he was just really, really big until Last Jedi?

Actually, I kind of suspected he was about 4 inches tall. You know sort of a riff on “size matter is not” and “judge me by my size do you?” Ironically, that would’ve been way less risky than where they actually chose to go with the character! 🤣

I still don’t understand what he was all about, seems like a stranger entered the story and just poofed out.

I actually hoped he was really really small so projected himself really big to compensate

Tbf he may have still been really big. Disney didn’t allow him to hang dong.

It was definitely debated some when the movie came out. It was obviously a hologram, and ESB gave precedence for the big-bad using giant holos, but the emperor there was just a face and Snoke was full-body shot.

I wonder if Abrams pictured him large and Johnson brought him down to size, or if that was already determined elsewhere that Snoke just had his holo set to embiggen mode.

I was hoping we’d get a Yoda vs Dooku equivalent for Luke/Snoke.

Just when the scene started. Once it was revealed to be a hologram I figured they weren’t going that route. Would have been interesting though.

At the end of this scene they literally show that it’s a hologram…

I mean, upon seeing chunks of the collapsing ceiling falling through his hologram, I immediately went “ok, he’s just a projection, actual guy isn’t that big, got it”. Similar to how huge Palpatine appears as a projection to Vader in ESB.

I didn’t.

I 100% did haha

Having read the Thrawn-trilogy; he simply found the emperors personal holo-setting.

I immediately thought he just made himself bigger in the hologram to look imposing. And the only reason to do that, is that he really isn’t imposing.

My head cannon fix for all this is to make Snoke what Baylan finds on Peridea. Then you have Snoke break out and get back to the main galaxy and take control of the imperial remnant. Along the way Snoke finds Palpatine, Palps sees his power and gives him the “let’s rule the galaxy” schpeal. Snoke declines and toasts Palpatine. Palpatine survives of course (there is no audience fake out for God sake). Eventually Snoke clashes with Luke, we see an epic throwdown but Luke dominates. Snoke limps away. Palps finds him in his weakened state and kills him. Then he proceeds to clone him and throws a little Palps into the clone mix to help with the puppet master gimmick. The rest is history. It’s not perfect but it preserves the current cannon and adds some substance to the back story. Snoke is still a failed Palpatine clone but it explains his appearance and force powers. To my knowledge cannon states you can’t clone force sensitivity. I never followed the games or books though. If this is the case Snoke’s existence from another galaxy explains how he is able to be a force sensitive clone.You can also use Snoke’s origin to set the stage for a future conflict with Force users from another galaxy.