I would keep Rey Nobody but somehow maintain the integrity of “Sheev fucks.” But that’s just me.
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Disregarding new lore from TROS yet considering the material we have to work with, I like #2.
If I were consulted while the movie was still being made and had that list to choose from, I’d go with 6, or maybe 4.
Option #2 is definitely the most practical option that we could go with. It would require dialogue changes, but generally the plot wouldn’t change that much. It would just change Palpatine’s motivation for wanting to kill/capture Rey.
Option #2 and #6 could share similarities, if #2 also put emphasis on Rey’s potential dark future that Palpatine foresaw. The big difference being Palpatine saw this future a long time ago rather than recently, basically when Rey was a child, and took measures to prevent/enable it.
This really depends on what dialogue we could manufacture, but I think some of my issues with #2 could be alleviated if we could create an implication that Rey wasn’t the only child Palpatine targeted. Maybe Palpatine had commanded his cultists to exterminate Force sensitive children across the galaxy in order to make it harder for Luke to restore the Jedi order. It would help explain the motivation for why Luke was trying to track down Ochi. This way, Rey’s parents could still be tied with Ochi and the Sith could, buy Rey wouldn’t necessarily be some special, predestined Uber Sith.
But, for the sake of simplicity, it would probably be better to take the path of least resistance, which I think would be basically Dom’s ideas for Option 2. Really the major change would just be the hangar conversation. Kylo wouldn’t reveal her heritage, but instead, what Palpatine foresaw for Rey, a dark future where she becomes a Sith, kills her friends and rules the galaxy with Kylo Ren. Then besides that you’re just cutting out any lines throughout that reference Rey Palpatine explicitly.
Once the blu-ray releases, I think it will help us refresh our memories on what we have to work with. Then, we can look at that scene, and others, and see what dialogue needs to be changed and what it could be replaced with.