In the Skywalker Saga, there are two characters who are dressed in gold while sitting on thrones: the protocol droid C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, and the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke in The Last Jedi. Gold is commonly associated with glory and thrones suggest power, but in both these scenes it is only an illusion that the character has a glory and power that must be reverenced – in these cases, reverenced at the cost of human sacrifice.
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Snoke and Mirrors
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In the Skywalker Saga, there are two characters who are dressed in gold while sitting on thrones: the protocol droid C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, and the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke in The Last Jedi. Gold is commonly associated with glory and thrones suggest power, but in both these scenes it is only an illusion that the character has a glory and power that must be reverenced – in these cases, reverenced at the cost of human sacrifice.