I was thinking, I wonder if there’s some way to use Rey’s horrible, drunk parents in TLJ to help lure her to the Dark Side in Rey Nobody. Like, a really obvious character thread
for anyone who isn’t Chris Terriois for Kylo or Palpsters to say “Your parents abandoned you. Doesn’t that fill you with anger and hatred?” Or “You have no family, all alone. Join me.” Or heck even, “Take the Throne, rule over the galaxy, and you can ensure that no one else will ever be forsaken again. Like you were.”Isn’t this what Kylo does in TLJ? “You’re nothing… but not to me.”
Not exactly. My take on the TLJ scene was that Kylo was telling her, “Your parents left you. You’re not special. You’re all alone. But you and I can be friends.” In TROS, my thought was to transition the issue from “Aren’t you sad that you’re alone?” to “Your parents were horrible to you. Doesn’t that make you angry?” Kind of like Anakin being sad about his mom - that turning into anger, into hate, etc.
“It’s like poetry, it rhymes.”