Something I can’t get out of my head is Closer Look’s video about Rey’s character arc in the movie.

Basically, his idea was that Rey should’ve failed to save to Chewie, and protect her friends, but then when she taps into the dark side she has enough power to protect them, and this is what the chances of her falling to the dark side more likely.

In his mind, he felt that Rey thinking she killed Chewie by using the dark side would make her afraid of using the dark side at all. Why would she turn if that is the message she is getting from it? She should’ve seen how the dark side is the quick and easy path, like Yoda described. That using the dark side gives her what she wants, at a cost…

I think that is why I was playing around with the idea of Rey having a vision that she would fail and her friends would die in the final battle. Let her believe she won’t be powerful enough to save her friends unless she taps into the dark side, sort of how Anakin thought only the dark side would allow him to be strong enough to save Padmé.

I really want justice for Rey’s character arc. Maybe it already is fine as-is, but I feel like it is missing something, like a Jungian solution to the conflict between the Ego and Shadow, and the synthesis of the anima and animus. She needs to personify the answer to the flaws of the old Jedi, and I don’t know if at this point she really does that.