Palpatine did want Rey to come to Exegol, but her parents abandoned her and now he doesn’t know where she is, so he turns to Ben Solo because he does know where he is, and turns him to the dark side — he wants the blood descendant of the Skywalkers to perform the Sith ritual so he would possess his body. Palpatine tells Kylo to kill Rey because at this point he no longer has any use for her and Kylo is already this far into the dark side, it is too late to possess Rey at this point.
Um…what? None of that is established in the movie. And why not just possess Kylo if “he wants the blood descendant of the Skywalkers to perform the Sith ritual”?
It does not need to be explicitly spelled out to you. There is a concept called “inference” — something you already apply to TFA and TLJ.
That’s not how Sith essence transfer works. Palpatine demands Rey to perform the ritual by killing him out of hatred — by doing so, this would allow his spirit to possess Rey. He wanted to do the same thing with Kylo Ren, this is literally why he turns him to the dark side in the first place — he hoped for Kylo Ren to kill his failure of a clone body, allowing his spirit to possess Kylo Ren.
Hux does not betray the First Order altogether, he sent in the information so Kylo Ren would lose. Unless you’re referring to, “I don’t care if you guys win,” Hux is just saying that so Finn and Poe wouldn’t kill him.
Oh shoot, I didn’t realize we could just arbitrarily decide when the script is lying to us or not. Cool beans.
Again, INFERENCE. Hux clearly wants to rule the First Order and dispose of Kylo Ren from his status as Supreme Leader. If Hux did not say, “I don’t care if you guys win,” or at least said the opposite, then Finn and Poe would’ve killed him.