I don't think it would have worked with Kylo for me, despite his power he'd spent two films reacting much like a tempermental teenager so even though that concept has legs (and would be well explored in series format) I imagine had it been central to the last film he'd have felt too whiny and lacking in franchise culminating scale menace. It's more that the event the trilogy was building too wasn't the place to do it so I can see why IX steered away (also given his turn to good always felt like where he was going as well).
With Rey, I didn't mind her not having powerful parents (as it seemed at the time) as it felt like an odd focus coming out of Force Awakens. The film didn't make a massive deal about her parents just as New Hope didn't about Luke's, it was weird it was such a focus come Last Jedi but I guess the fanbase can take credit for that. It felt like Last Jedi, presumably in another effort to subvert Force Awakens, went out of its way to say Rey was a nobody, not special at all to emphasise that anyone with Force powers could be the hero - not just a Skywalker or someone connected to them. It kind of sucked the wind out of her character as much of the time the film spends on her is being dismissed by Luke and told she's not special by the film. It felt daft too as its undermined by her being effectively a Padiwan with more skills that any trained Jedi in the other films and a strong force connection to key objects and Kylo, and we know you're average Jedi can't take the Emperor too so EpIX had to reverse that. Though I feel the Palpatin Granddaughter twist was just a desperate effort to avoid making her directly a Skywalker.
With Rey, I didn't mind her not having powerful parents (as it seemed at the time) as it felt like an odd focus coming out of Force Awakens. The film didn't make a massive deal about her parents just as New Hope didn't about Luke's, it was weird it was such a focus come Last Jedi but I guess the fanbase can take credit for that. It felt like Last Jedi, presumably in another effort to subvert Force Awakens, went out of its way to say Rey was a nobody, not special at all to emphasise that anyone with Force powers could be the hero - not just a Skywalker or someone connected to them. It kind of sucked the wind out of her character as much of the time the film spends on her is being dismissed by Luke and told she's not special by the film. It felt daft too as its undermined by her being effectively a Padiwan with more skills that any trained Jedi in the other films and a strong force connection to key objects and Kylo, and we know you're average Jedi can't take the Emperor too so EpIX had to reverse that. Though I feel the Palpatin Granddaughter twist was just a desperate effort to avoid making her directly a Skywalker.
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