What’s your version of that moment, in your rewrite?
I’ve tried to make the Force more of a New Agey Zen thing throughout, like it is in ANH. At the beginning, while she’s meditating, she is trying to empty herself of everything but the Force.
Rey: There is nothing in me but the Force. There is nothing in me but the Force.
So it sets up the climax:
Palpatine: A scavenger girl is no match for me! You are nothing!
Rey: I am nothing.
(lightsaber thunks into hand)
Rey: But the Force.
I’m not married to the idea, and I think it’s perhaps a little hokey or forced, no pun intended. I’d rather something that tied better to her character arc. If something better comes along I’ll change it.