ChainsawAsh said:

Dark Empire (what? too on the nose? 😉

I really like that, although I think it would really fit in a 3 in 1 edit with Palps as the main baddy.

ChainsawAsh said:

I don’t think that’s what Hal was saying. It’s a given that “Just Rey” only works if she’s Palpatine’s progeny. What Hal’s saying is he thinks “Just Rey” needs to be specifically set up by the explicit use of the name “Rey Palpatine” at some point during the movie, which I don’t think is necessary.

But yes, the “Just Rey” ending only works if she’s a Palpatine, because it’s her specifically choosing to forge her own path and not aligning herself with her actual family name (Palpatine) or her “adopted family” name (Skywalker).

In a Rey Nobody edit, you’d have to do something else with that scene, I think. If you even use it.

Rey Skywalker = Rey no-one edit
Just Rey = Rey Palpatine edit.