Palpatine in IX

[unspeakablehorror]

I'm still like, not entirely certain what angle the IX movie will take with Palpatine.  While it's been heavily implied by the higher-ups in Lucasfilm that he'll return in this movie, there's a lot of ways one could potentially interpret that.  They wouldn't have to literally bring him back to life (or even as a Force Ghost) to be telling the truth about that.  Could still mean something else, like an extended flashback of some sort.  Then again, maybe he's just been taking an extended vacation somewhere this entire time.  Or maybe we'll get tacky Palpatine clones (I am ready!).