After percolating on it a little bit, I still don’t get Palapatines whole game plan. Originally he wants to bring Rey from Jakku to Exogol, ok. Then Snoke gets a hold of her and seems like he wants to kill her, or at least have Kylo Ren do it. Then Palpatine tells Kylo to kill her too. Then when she shows up he’s all like, oh I wanted you here the whole time, huh?
Was he just lying to Rey? Was he hoping Rey would kill Kylo or something? Why not just tell him, bring her to me?
Obviously having them both there worked out well for him, at first, but he had no idea that was going to happen it seemed clear.
Don’t get the going back and forth on kidnapping/killing her.