Lol…
This scene is one reason I sometimes revisit the idea of Rey killing her parents. While I personally think IX needed to move on from Rey parents, it genuinely seems like something Abrams and Terrio would have written, if that makes sense. Not a great storytelling choice, but still better than what we got.
Truly the level to which all screenwriters aspire.
Honestly, there’s a really bizarre problem in this film wherein every time Rey needs to reflect on something, they toss her in a corner with Finn and have her complain about the specific thing for a few seconds. It happens…what? Three times? And every time, Finn just awkwardly says something about “I think you’re a good perso-” before Rey cuts him off. It’s straight out of a CW show.
It’s like…in the whole wide world of visualizing internal conflict, J.J. and Chris pick the same option three times. You’d think they’d catch this sort of thing in the rewrite and/or script-edit phase; but no, they just keep hitting the same story beat over and over again. All of these scenes just blur together for me eventually. That said, Rey does need some acknowledgement of what just went down with Kylo in the hangar, so I guess we have to work with what we’ve got.
Anyway.
As a theoretical alternative, I’ve been working on a version of Rey’s dialogue for my edit that would have her reflecting on, and rejecting, Kylo’s offer of partnership. I think it works in the context of the larger story, and it offers a somewhat subtle callback to TLJ, where Rey told Kylo that “it isn’t too late” for him. The fact that she’s now saying the opposite adds weight to Finn’s argument that “that doesn’t sound like [her].”
I’m not really sure how to slot it in against the available footage, but I’m putting it out there in case anyone has ideas. (Or critiques on the mashup - can always use some fresh ears for stuff like this!)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BjneRw1tO-Ns75huDvQabBdnsdCypbje/view?usp=sharing