Small thing, but Rey’s line

I will earn your brother’s saber.

Weird one. First I should say every time I saw the film, I thought she was saying “I will learn your brother’s saber,” partially because of how she says it but also because this is directly tied with her training.

Anyway, it does feel like an important marker for the symbolism of the saber in the film. But wouldn’t it have made more sense though if she said “I will earn you family’s saber”? That kind of gets to the heart of what’s really going on in regards to Rey’s struggle with her legacy, and her ultimate identification with the Skywalker line much better, doesn’t it? And really in the final scene, she should have used the saber to build her new one, rather than just burying it.

I mean, really that beat should have happened at the beginning of the film rather than at the end, but what can you do.