Johnson just killing off the secretly Palpatine character bc he was dumb and boring and getting in the way of actually interesting characters will never not be hilarious. Jar Jar was trying to set up this whole thing where Palpatine is secretly somehow the big baddy again (Which is stupid bc no one cares about Palpatine, the whole franchise to that point is about Darth Vader). And Johnson is just like "I don't even know why this character is in the movie, I'm just going to kill him off for character development so we can focus on the bad guy who is the equivalent of Darth Vader".