What we're told and what we see is that Rey and Kylo were already individually as naturally strong as Force users get
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
yeah exactly. So if Palps is able to drain any force user, it would make sense that he'd want to drain Rey (or use her body or whatever) even with out the dyad. It feels like the dyad just wasn't important to the Palpatine's whole plan at all and it just happened to work out.
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Replying to @chton @arthur_affect
It felt like a GM improvising at the last second because Ben and Rey's player found a rule that said they could share items and so Ben won a fight he was supposed to lose and interrupted the planned monologue
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
It did. Now imagine if he lost that fight. Or he didn't show up at all. Would Palps' plan have been competely fucked? "Shit, you're half of a dyad, i can't drain you. shit shit shit..
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl
It... seems like he was sincere about the ritual to let Rey kill and replace (and in some sense become) him, and the Drain the Dyad thing was a plan B he had in mind (because only with Ben present could killing him be an act of love rather than despair or some shit)
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Note that his original plan A seems to have actually been that he did want Kylo to kill Rey so he could take Kylo as a host Because Kylo would've been much more likely to be so far gone to the Dark Side at that point he wouldn't resist being possessed
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The one time we see Palpatine talking to his minions *without* Kylo or Rey around (so we know he's not manipulating them) he says he senses "Skywalker's daughter has interfered for the last time" etc So we actually know for a fact he didn't want Rey to survive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Wait, "skywalker's daughter"? That'd be Leia, not Rey, right?
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl
Yes, Palpatine is pissed off that Kylo was about ti beat Rey and then Leia turned the tide of the fight by Force-texting him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Ohh I see what you mean, yeah I agree with that, he did want Kylo to kill Rey.
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This movie tries its best to elevate Leia as a character even though her actor was deceased and not actually in the movie So they threw that scene in - jarringly, since it's the only time Palpatine is the POV character - to let us know how important Leia's sacrifice is
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Apparently everything else that's happened for the course of this movie was exactly according to Palpatine's absurdly prescient evil plan but Leia's intervention threw the first major wrench in the works
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