What’s the problem with Rey’s vision of seeing her parents leave in a spaceship? I’m sure that would be extremely traumatic. Why do they have to be important people simply because she saw them leaving? Yes, the way it was setup left the audience wondering who are those people, and if we knew them. But the characters weren’t giving any fucks at all, except for Rey. I don’t see what’s the big deal about it. Simply because we saw them leave, it doesn’t make them more important or less, or changes who they are.
They were junkers that sold her for beer money but had a fancy ship they could leave the planet on? I guess they could have sold her for passage off the planet but Kylo says they are buried there on the planet.
Furthermore, it is implied Kylo knows her (or at least JJ was leaning that way). Besides the “what girl” line, in the novelization he says to her in the forest “it IS you!”
The novelizations are full of contradictions nowadays, even after Disney canon and stuff. And I don’t see why they couldn’t have gone back to the planet, even told Rey that they planned to come back at some point (hence her desire in believing that they’ll come back) but not necessarily come back to her or anything like that.
I can see why you guys think that, but it really didn’t cross my mind at all. I was just ok with it I guess. Maybe I’m an apologist now??? 😮