I mean, the vision came true. That’s the whole point. At the end of her Jedi path, her son died.
Very good point. Anakin had a vision of Padme dying which made him turn to the Dark Side, and the vision still came true.
Very good points but I feel that Leia training Rey actually contributes to Ben’s death. It doesn’t make sense to me plus Rey saying she’s a Skywalker doesn’t make sense. By the end of TROS she has stolen the Falcon, Stolen BB8, and taken the Skywalker name. All that left me with a bad taste.
She hasn’t stolen any of those things.
Vision or not, Ben cannot survive.
Like Darth Vader, these two were only “redeemed” by one person. The whole galaxy would not forgive these Space Hitlers. It is a simpler ending to have them die, then to have them live. Ben would have to stay in hiding for the rest of his life from THE ENTIRE GALEXY and Rey would have to hook up with him in secret since she would be aiding and abetting A MASS MURDERER.
The more I think of the “Reylo” thing it makes me roll my eyes harder and harder.
Anyway, that’s my two cents on that topic.
This all being said, I’d absolutely read or watch a story wherein Ben is put on trial. I think that you could get an extremely interesting legal drama out of that. Character witnesses and testimony as an excuse to flash back to Ben’s childhood and to during his time during the First Order. Impassioned speeches about the importance of redemption, of justice, etc. You could have interludes on other planets in the galaxy, dealing with the cleanup of the galaxy-wide uprising.
Optimally, Disney Expanded Universe-wise, the most fun prosecutor would be Ransolm Casterfo, as a former member of the New Republic Senate, a student of Imperial History, as somebody whose life was personally effected by Darth Vader, as somebody who was framed by the First Order and later imprisoned by them, and as a close personal friend of Leia’s; you could get a lot of good angst with him wrestling with the conflicting ideas of justice applying to all equally and prosecuting his lost friend’s son.
Anyway, I think that might have been neat, lol.