CaptainFaraday said:
I’m considering having her conversation with Luke include something along the lines of the Dark Side not being some evil external entity out there which pulls you towards it, but rather it’s created internally by our choices. Resisting the Dark Side isn’t about struggling against some bad monster, it’s about making the choice between what is right and what is easy. Luke would intend this to be reassuring - she’s the one who consciously decides whether she falls to the Dark Side or not, she doesn’t need to fret about accidentally tripping and falling into it. But it’s a double-edged sword, because that also means it is entirely on her shoulders to make those choices.
So when she goes into the confrontation with Palpatine, she doesn’t want to be a cold-blooded murderer, killing an unarmed old man on a life support thing. She could justify it to herself, but that’s even worse - then she’d be a murderer who can justify when it’s okay for her personally to murder. It’s why Palpatine was so delighted when Anakin killed Dooku, and why he goaded Luke into attacking him - it’s a slippery slope to the Dark Side.
Thank you, this is what I was trying to tell the people who thought Rey killing Palpatine was too forced and that it doesn’t make sense because it was the right thing to do. Just didn’t know how to word it. Yes, she doesn’t look like she wants to do it, but if she had, she would be killing an unarmed old man. There’s really no way you can spin that lol. The Final Order doing the killing of the fleet may be under the command of him, but killing him wouldn’t stop them from attacking.