Star Wars Rebels

A blind, battle-scarred Jedi, his apprentice teetering on the edge of the darkside, Darth freaking Maul - yes thank you, and a super high ranking imperial who is actually quite scary and voiced by Mads Mikkelsen's brother.

I think there's an extremely high likelihood of Ezra (a lot less likely but possibly Maul though Snoke doesn't have a two colour face, but being mutilated is pausible) being Snoke. He seems way to open to Maul when they meet and I also thought it was intersting Maul drops the Darth, he comments on hating the Sith too. There also seems to be no one referred to Darth in Force Awakens. The whole thing in the series two finale where they infiltrate the temple shows that the rule of two seems to be advisory rather than an actual thing more people could use the temple despite Sidious and Vader being the Sith at the time. Given that Sidious killed Plagis (also a possible contender for Snoke, he was immortal according to him so again plausible and off screen deaths dont mean anything) even two Sith can't be trusted to get along. I cant remember if it was in that episode near the beginning but pretty sure I saw Ezra with a cross guard light saber that breaks, again another nod to Kylo.

Oh and I kinda went off on a tangent, but my point was Ezra, Maul and Kylo could be the dark side people we're dealing with in the new movies, there doesn't need to be only two. There was also the knights of Ren which easily could be the equivalent of the inquisitors.

I'm not sure there's long enough between Rebels and TFA for Ezra to be Snoke. It's possible, and it's an ending I'd probably enjoy, because the pull towards the dark side has definitely been affecting Ezra - as of season 3 he was actually using the Sith Holocron for knowledge. Only thing is he's around Luke's age, possibly a year or two younger. Though I guess Snoke is disfigured as fuck, so maybe it's hard to gauge his age.

He does indeed pick up a cross guard lightsaber on Malachor - I just read it as a cheeky shout out though.

I would actually love it if Maul came back in the movies too, I was very excited at seeing him in Rebels. His characterisation is actually really great, embracing the dark side yet despising the Sith. It makes him one of the more interesting characters.

Well his face could easily look like that if wrecked by force lightning or something. I realistically see a face off between him and Kanan and something like that happening. This is essentially a great opportunity to show how Anakins journey to the dark side should have happened. Also Snoke has a huge nose like Ezra, I've also wondered if being dark side just makes you look like shit vader and sidious both had mutilated faces.

You also have to keep in mind this is confirmed canon by disney so that means either Ezra, Kana and Ahsoka die (dying off screen doesn't equal dead to me) as Yoda says Luke is the last or they all splinter off and become other things. Donnie Yen being a general badass demonstrated that the force can be used by other people who don't pick a side. Theres also the possibility something happens and then Ezra just leaves the Jedi order thinking fuck it, either way I do expect he will appear in episode 8.

TBH Kylo seems Emo like an angsty teen regardless of how entertaining his scenes were. There needs to be a good story development for why he joined the order. Someone like Ezra being Snoke works, or the most entertaining scenario for me would be Kylo pretended to be bad to inflitrate the dark side and get access to Ezra and Maul. I know i'm clutching at straws but Maul being back would be satisfying for me lol