So despite Trevorrow's DOTF script being incredibly awful, there's also some very interesting pieces of information in there regarding Mortis and the WBW, which tells us about LF's overall plan for this story.

I've made a thread, of course.

First things first, before I get into it, let's remember that Trevorrow was fired by KK because of creative differences and she didn't approve of his scripts. https://www.nme.com/news/film/star-wars-boss-kathleen-kennedy-reveals-why-colin-treverrow-was-fired-from-the-rise-of-skywalker-2585993#:~:text=%E2%80%9CCreative%20differences%E2%80%9D%20were%20cited%20as%20the%20reason%20for%20his%20departure.&text=Now%2C%20Kennedy%20has%20shone%20a,Force%20Awakens%2C%20directed%20by%20Abrams.

“Like any development process, it was only in the development that we’re looking at a first draft and realising that it was perhaps heading in a direction that many of us didn’t feel was really quite where we wanted it to go.”

She continued: “We were on a schedule,

as we often are with these movies, and had to make a tough decision as to whether or not we thought we could get there in the time or not. And as I said, Colin was at a disadvantage because he hadn’t been immersed in everything that we all had starting out with Episode VII.”

And one of the biggest problems with this script is Ben. He's awful. Completely unrecognizable, out of character, terrible. So this was probably one of the reasons why Trevorrow was fired.

However I do also have a theory that there was a reason for Ben acting this way.

In Ben's very first scene, he was attacked by Palpatine's holocron, causing an invasive pulse of energy to spread through his face and horrible purple veins. It's then brought up several times throughout the story that he was in a lot of pain and the veins kept getting worse.

So there's a good chance that Palps's holocron had infected him & caused him to go dark. But ultimately we'll never know the answer to this and it doesn't matter anyway because (thank the Maker!) this isn't canon

Now that the disclaimer is done, let's move on to the good stuff

Because there is actually a ton of interesting things to be taken from this script. Trevorrow def had his own ideas about Rey and Poe, and how he wanted to depict Ben, but he was definitely following along (albeit horribly) with the overall plan in regards to Mortis and the WBW.

I'm just going to go through everything in order of the story — starting with Ben finding Palps's holocron. Here we see that Palps is interested in the untapped power of Mortis. (This entire story is literally about Mortis!)

Mortis and the Mortis gods are connected to the WBW (they guard the power of the Force/the WBW), and this is all part of LF's overall story. Palps trying to access the WBW for its power started in a Tarkin book in 2014, and then the entire finale of Rebels was focused on this.

Then the Force nexus on Coruscant is also brought up and plays a big part in this story. Rey and Ben have been visiting vergences constantly in all of these movies. (And the early version of TROS was also going to include the Coruscant vergence.) Vergences connect to the WBW.

Rey and Ben have a lot of shared Force visions and feel each other's pain throughout the story, and they keep having a shared vision of Mortis. Specifically they see the two thrones on Mortis. You can imagine my delight when I read this!

(I'm assuming anyone reading this thread follows me and understands why this is so great. If not, I'll plug this thread here just in case. Ben is the Light and Rey is the Dark of Mortis) https://twitter.com/twothatareone/status/1283473855093374976?s=20

They also talk about how the two beings, the Light and the Dark brought balance.

This exchange about it being a myth is also just like Anakin in CW telling the Father that the Chosen One is a myth.

More talk of balance, the light, and the dark, with Luke. And Rey has anger that is compared to Anakin's.

Then similarly, Leia had heard the word "balance" when she saw Rey. Rey is once again compared to Anakin, only this time how she's not like him. But the Force chose her.

When Ben is talking to the random Sith that the holocron sent him to, we get this exchange that he wants to take his place among the Gods of Mortis

And then when Rey visits a Force sensitive person who can direct her to Mortis, and she has another vision.

"There the two will meet. Drawn together by the Force."

We once again see the two thrones, for the dark side and the light. And Ben and Rey are there.

At another point Ben once again visits a vergence, just like he and Rey keep doing throughout the ST. Ben can sense the vergence and has a fight with Vader.

This is pretty interesting to me because it says that Ben is "not worthy of its power. NOT YET." ......So he will be one day?

So Rey ends up fighting with the Knights of Ren and goes into a rage and gets super dark. And just like in TROS, she shoots Force lightning. Except this time it's purple (hmm similarly to the Son of Mortis who has red lightning).

This girl is definitely not the light side of the Force, and her darkness is not about her bloodline and being a Palpatine. It's her.

Anyway so Rey is flying to Mortis, and while flying through hyperspace near the planet things get weird. We have a mention of the Ahch-To mirror cave, and now another WBW vergence moment of her seeing flashbacks.