It's fine using a character the audience knows in order to evoke emotion, but in the case of TRoS the characters respond like the audience does, not like an actual in-world character would. They genuinely respond as if they've watched the original trilogy.
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For Luke to casually namedrop "Sidious" to mean "Palpatine" means that whole conspiracy - where Palpatine actually started the war he got all the credit for saving the Republic from - is now public historical knowledge
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And the really interesting thing is no one cares - the people still loyal to the Empire and its ideology are apparently just fine with the fact that the formation of the Empire was based on a giant con job
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Right, and ancillary material of the highest order (Rebels) establishes that the conspiracy between the two factions was in fact so well known that the Battle Droids know it after Ep. 3 &can therefore be convinced that their civic allegiance is to the Rebellion,bc.Empire=Republic
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