I mean, maybe, but it seems cleaner to streamline it and just assume that Snoke equals Palpatine in regard to this point. If removing two lines can help it make intuitive sense, it might be worth it.

EDIT: The slight punch that ends Finn and Poe’s conversation is the ‘reveal’ that Palpatine wanted Rey alive. We already know everything else that conversation conveys.

What a mess. It will probably feel a little flat to cut away before that final like because as an audience member you’d say, “Uh yeah, I already knew Ochi was tracking Rey.” Without the final line, bringing her to the Emperor essentially is to say that he wanted to kill or at least get her.

I still feel like I’m missing something about the plot of this movie. Kylo tells Rey Palpatine wanted to kill her as a child and we see him ordering her to be killed in the present day. Not to mention his cloned proxy trying to kill her in the last movie, hand waving aside.

Then, suddenly Finn reveals that he actually wanted her brought to him alive, both as a child and in the present. Sure enough, he says as much and seems to hinge his plans on it when she does arrive.

“Kill her. Or, bring her to me. Y’know what, why don’t you just kill me?”