Spinosaurus vs. T-Rex– who wins?

We don't get it. We just don't get it. The whole “Somehow, Palpatine returned” thing. And it's not that we don't get WHY they did it, because it actually makes sense. The whole sequel trilogy was supposed to be a soft reboot - Another wide-eyed orphan stuck on a desert planet, another droid with secret plans, another death star - the whole thing was a retelling of the original trilogy. We get it. What we don't understand is why they didn't make the “new” Palpatine a clone. It was all there - we…