I’m fairly confident that ‘Rey Palpatine’ can safely be excised from TROS.

However, if it is to be left, I wonder if TLJ should be adjusted. TROS really weaves around TLJ to make it all work: Kylo pulls out a ‘certain point of view’ about Rey’s parents being nobodies, and Luke clarifies that somehow Leia knew Rey was a Palpatine while he did not.

I wonder if merely removing the second-or-two of TLJ in which she admits to Kylo, “They were nobody,” would be enough. TLJ makes an ironclad case for ‘Rey Nobody’ because she searches her feelings and reluctantly admits it, even stating it on her own before Kylo does. Then TROS does almost the same thing, except this time Rey was suppressing the truth that she is a Palpatine.

This way, Kylo still goads her to admit something, but provides the answer himself, making him even more deceptive.

The other issue that jumps out at me is the dark side… hole. But, I suppose it might just never reveal anything of substance to anyone who would venture within. Maybe it doesn’t really give new information. However, thematically it reinforces Rey Nobody.

God damn, Rey Palpatine seems stupid, and just very thematically astray. It’s like they thought, “Well, let’s just make the last movie complete trash and be done with it.”