I know what you mean about trying to bring more to the climax … but you kinda can’t. There isn’t a personal between Rey and Palps. They tried to with the “Force Ghosts of Jedi’s pass” but it kinda fell flat, to be honest.

There could have been more of a personal connection with the climax if Kylo did the “Sith Sacrifice/Power Transfer” and it was a battle between Kylo(Sith Avatar) and Rey. That would have done it.

Anyway, sorry if this is becoming more of a Star Wars discussion instead of editing … not sure what can be done to add more to the climax to mean something, personally.