It’s definitely a tough situation that I haven’t fully considered, yet. A major part of Rey’s character arc is that she feels like she needs to prove herself to people after her parents abandoned her. But if it’s suddenly revealed that they were good people with purely good intentions, it definitely undermines that.

I’ll have to give it more thought, but I’m starting to wonder if it might be possible to suggest that while what Rey’s parents did protected her, it was fueled mostly by selfish motivations. Again, I’ll have to think about that more, and it’s definitely not my final word on the topic.