That makes a lot of sense when it’s laid out like that.
In the movie it felt like, “Kill her. Or bring her to me, or… you know what, why don’t you just kill me?”
I think it’s a symptom of the movie’s breakneck pace. It’s why it’s so tragic that the movie doesn’t have any released deleted scenes, because between the novelization and the leaks, a (IMO) pretty solid movie was filmed, it just got lost in edits.
It doesn’t help that JJ Abrams seems to edit/direct movies under the belief that if he pauses the action or lets exposition run for more than fifteen seconds at a time, he will literally die. Like the movie Speed, but with bad movie editing.
A PRIME example of this is that he (and Lawrence Kasdan) scripted and filmed scenes with and about the New Republic senate. The shot of the New Republic senate we see as Hosnian Prime was destroyed were originally meant to be characters we’d seen earlier in the movie. Korr Sella, Maisie Richardson-Sellers’s character who can be seen briefly as the planet is destroyed, was Leia’s emissary to the senate, sent there with all of their evidence that the First Order is violating treaties and planning an attack to finally convince the New Republic to move against the First Order. But no; JJ thinks worldbuilding is scary, so we lost those scenes.