I mean, they could have established that by like, idk having a scene were Palpatine goes into his secret space hologram map room and chackles why going "Operation Q Delta failed, but now Operation Z Gamma is going right as planned!"
I can buy the idea that the guy is a 10,000 IQ genius with 5000 back up plans but you kinda have to explain that, or else it's just a lot of him going "THIS WAS MY PLAN! SOMEHOW!"
I mean, they could have established that by like, idk having a scene were Palpatine goes into his secret space hologram map room and chackles why going "Operation Q Delta failed, but now Operation Z Gamma is going right as planned!"
I can buy the idea that the guy is a 10,000 IQ genius with 5000 back up plans but you kinda have to explain that, or else it's just a lot of him going "THIS WAS MY PLAN! SOMEHOW!"