I disagree Dre, the movie shows several moments where Rey is associated with the dark side…
Please point those moments out to me, because I didn’t see any serious struggle or temptation, and there certainly were no serious consequences for Rey, as there were for Luke.
and even moments where Kylo is with the light. It also goes deeper into nuance by having the mentor figure grapple also with his past failure and his present opportunity.
The moments with Kylo were mostly undercut by Snoke’s admission, that he was manipulating Rey, as such we don’t know what was real, and what wasn’t. The single most powerful moment was, when Kylo couldn’t kill his mother, but as with Rey it was without consequence, as the theme wasn’t revisited in the film. Leia just accepted her son was lost without so much as a confrontation, killing an interesting story thread about Ben Solo’s relationship with his parents, a relationship that had led to particide. However, like so many set ups of TFA RJ decided to mostly ignore that.
You don’t think Ben killing his father wasn’t a factor in that acceptance?
It might, but the movie just glossed over it in my view. It wasn’t much of a story thread in the film, despite the fact that it supposedly played an important part in Kylo’s development in TFA. Kylo states he didn’t hate his father to Rey, but doesn’t really address the issue afterwards. It isn’t much of an issue to Rey either after that one confrintation. There’s no confrontation between mother and son. I felt it was handled in an unsatisfactory manner.