I guess it actually makes some sense related to rumors before the movie came out about Palpatine saying he was going to die and he was grooming Kylo Ren as a successor. Problem is the movie leaves us with a mess.
If we can flatten it to Palpatine wanting to kill Rey to resorting to her after Ben is redeemed, I think that’ll help a lot.
Moving the ‘spirit transfer’ line into the opening sequence already breaks the above plot outline, at least implying that Palpatine could take over more than just Rey in particular.
Agreed. So I agree it isn’t ideal to go from Finn saying “What’s your name?” to Ahch-To, but unfortunately that’s the only easy way I see out of that situation. Unless you could edit around Finn and Poe’s lines?
EDIT: While watching the scene between them, I noticed something funny. When Finn says, “He wanted her alive” his lips are clearly not moving. So it was added in during post.