But…this is the film, not the novel. We have to go by what’s expressed in the film. Again, it would have made sense, but it’s not what comes across at all.

If she was facing Kylo on Pasaana so her friends could escape, why didn’t she tell them to leave? In fact, they would have been able to escape if they weren’t waiting around for her to come back, nor would Chewie have been captured when he was sent out to tell her to stop playing around.

She doesn’t go after the Dagger because “Kylo can use it to track us!” (Can Kylo even read Sith? Eh, sure, why not. Who cares?) She goes after it because of “a feeling.”

There’s no evidence to suggest that she’s worried about being abandoned by her friends. She says it’s because of something else entirely, and the film doesn’t explore it at all visually. (And I’ve already commented before why I don’t believe for one second in “Rey’s inherent belief in her own self-worthlessness,” so I won’t get into that here.) It’s like…you know in Avengers 2, when Tony Stark has the vision of all of his friends dying? That’s what this angle would have needed. Instead, Rey has a vision of a chair. A f*cking chair. “Ooh, if she sits there, it will mean she’ll have lost all of her friends!” Seriously?

Again, it doesn’t matter what you (or I) think Rey should be feeling; it doesn’t matter what the novel retcons her into thinking. Look at what the film itself is presenting to you.