"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" has no doubt shocked some viewers with the narrative bombshell it drops in its opening crawl: not only is Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) alive, but he has ...

“A hundred years before the rise of the Empire, it is a time of peace,” the crawl reads ... they’re getting into skirmishes.” In Star Wars: The Acolyte, an investigation into a ...