I agree that “Leia sensed her son would die BUT she also sensed someone else would carry on her mission for her”. Like, what? I dunno man, just feels so convoluted.

If we change Kylo Ren’s dialogue to remove Rey Palpatine (and potentially stuff about her parents dying for her), I’ve been thinking about what kind of dialogue we could add. Obviously, as others have said, Kylo dialogue from games and other sources would help. I also wonder if we could take Adam Driver dialogue from other films and add the mask modulation effect. This might sound weird, but I wonder if we could give Kylo dialogue that sounds a bit more, uh, romantic. It just seem some people were kind of surprised by the kiss, like they weren’t expecting it. But maybe if there was more set up, then the kiss would feel more like a payoff by the end of it.

Both Han and Leia as well as Anakin and Padmé blatantly talk about their feelings for each other, whereas Rey and Ben’s dialogue could be interpreted to be romantic or platonic, it seems. Also, we never get a consistent love theme for them either, like Across the Stars or the Scoundrel and the Princess. When they kiss we only get what I think is a fusion of their themes. But music kind of primes people for the romance in other trilogies, but we don’t get a consistent “love” theme throughout this film.