So here’s something worth considering. For my Rey Nobody version, I wanted to cut any reference Kylo makes to Rey’s parents. At that point then, you could edit Palpatine’s dialogue with Rey during their confrontation so that he calls her “Weak, like your parents.” Building off of TLJ, that line actually makes a lot of sense - how can Rey possibly hope to stand up to Palpatine, if her parents were drunken fools, left to rot somewhere on Jakku? How is she any better than that?

On the other hand, does it feel too…I dunno, shoehorned? Pointless? Like, that would be the first real mention of Rey’s parents since she realized that they were nobodies in the last movie. Is it weird to bring that element back at the eleventh hour, without having built on it at all throughout this film? (“Oh yeah, that’s right. She was upset about her parents or something before? Who cares at this point?”) Or would it be a good way of acknowledging that she’s finally come to terms her her parents’ identity; and her not falling for Palpatine’s taunts actually becomes a moment that shows her growth since the previous film?