I couldn’t help myself, so I decided to come back LMAO.
There’s some good discussion here. I do like the idea that Kylo wants to nope the hell out. But I’m unsure how this would work within the context of what we have. Kylo smashes the Wayfinder that Rey finds to pieces and says, “The only way you’re getting to Exegol is with me.” This would ordinally work by simply removing that line, but then you have the problem of the other Wayfinder being on board his own ship, which implies he was planning on going there with Rey in his ship. He would have destroyed the other Wayfinder as well if he no longer wanted any part in this. Plus, it makes their fight scene quite pointless, as previously pointed out.
What I like about the idea on the other thread is that it gives purpose to why Kylo made the choices that he did in his life, and why he’s still so interested in the dark side. Kylo will tell Rey that they’re destined for power because Palpatine used the Force to make their bloodlines, and in turn manipulate their fates. Luke saw that Ben was destined for a dark power in TLJ (the Sith throne), and that’s why he drew his lightsaber on him. Kylo kills Han because he knows his purpose in life is to choose power over family. One of them, Ben or Rey, has to take the throne. It’s unavoidable, a fixed point in time. But what Palpatine could not foresee is that the Force created a dyad between Rey and Ben, a connection that “transcends fate” when they’re together. When Kylo figures this out, it becomes a sunk cost fallacy. He’s already devoted so much of himself to the dark side. He hates that he had to kill his father. He feels too ashamed to see his mother again, as he states to Rey on the Death Star. So instead of using their bond to break free from his destiny for power and darkness, he is obsessed with creating a new dark order with Rey. Yes, this is just a different flavor of Sith, but I think that’s the point! He wants those sacrifices he made at the altar of the dark side to mean something. This is why he’s so obsessed with not allowing Rey to confront Palpatine alone, because he knows that means she will take the throne and all will be lost. This is also what makes their duel on the Death Star wreckage another “Duel of the Fates”, because neither is giving an inch for the other and this means one of them is going to die, fulfilling fate, and ensuring Palpatine’s victory. Palps would have won, too, if it weren’t for Leia’s intervention and Rey’s forgiveness which is a result of that. It’s only because Ben arrives on Exegol that their dyad stops one of them from being possessed by Palpatine and taking the throne.