Testing, I’m confused man. I don’t think anyone here is arguing his “pull to the light” is literal.

And Sherlock, I guess it depends on how you want to represent Kylo. I see the throne as representative of having the power of the Sith fleet. To control the fleet, he must take the throne. That doesn’t mean he wants to be Sith. I think he sees it as taking the Sith’s power and creating something new with it, whether that is misguided or not. Kylo ends up being wrong, either way. And I think Kylo believes he can get both things he wants, which is the fleet and Rey. Plus, with this interpretation, I think it might work better if Rey’s vision of her on the throne is associated with her choice of joining Kylo, since this seems to be what the theatrical film implies anyway when Rey says she had a vision of both her and Kylo on the throne.

And I guess you don’t need the flashforwards. I just figured you could just swap out the stuff with her parents in her vision with glimpses of the battle. And maybe you could just throw in shots from the battle when things are looking dire, rather than cutting it to make it look like Finn and Poe actually die. I guess you wouldn’t have to show it, though. Kylo could just say she’ll fail and they’ll lose. But I think Rey seeing it in a vision would add to her feelings of doubt in herself. So it isn’t just Kylo taunting her, but it has been foreseen, and it gives Rey a reason to hate Palpatine.