Ah, that’s right, I totally forgot about Kylo’s line earlier. (Maybe I blocked it from my memory when “They sold you to protect you” happened.) Thanks, RL! So yeah, TLJ establishes that Rey is upset about her parents abandoning her. Kylo reintroduces that in TROS on Pasaana, and then it comes to a head in the confrontation with Palpatine. That works from a structural perspective, right? Setup and payoff and all that jazz?

And like Starkiller said, I would just assume Palps is probing Rey’s mind for potential weaknesses at that point - places to twist the knife. Kinda like Vader sensing Luke thinking about Leia.

“Do you still count the days since your parents left? Such pain in you. Such anger.” Actually, the line works perfectly to tee up Rey’s potential fall to the Dark Side. Which makes less sense in the Rey Palpatine version, because Kylo says “Don’t you feel hurt and angry that your parents left you?” And then later he says “It wasn’t their fault. Palpatine did it, not them.” Like, he tries to make her resent her parents; but then absolves her parents, and tries to blame it on Palpy instead? Why not just blame Palpatine in the first place! And that’s why she calmly tells Sheev “My parents were good people, and they loved me”; and Palpy then awkwardly has to pivot his whole plan to making vague threats against her friends instead. God, this movie just shoots itself in the foot every chance it gets.