Only for Abrams and Co. to make him a Palpatine clone in a move that lacked originality. Well, Adam Driver's Kylo Ren didn't care for Snoke's lineage -- he killed him in a very gruesome scene.

The star also revealed that he didn’t actually know Snoke’s ‘true nature, responding when asked if he knew that the character was a failed clone, ’“No, that was something we kind of ...

So it appears that Gideon's plan has never been about creating Snoke or resurrecting Palpatine ... returned by moving his consciousness into a clone body, but there's still room to fill in many ...