One of the main criticisms the Reylos had going for them was that across two films, Finn didn't know anything about Rey, while Kylo knows everything. Though that didn't stop Finn fighting for her in TFA, and it also ignores how Kylo got that information and what grew chose to do with it when he had it. Regardless, now our heroes are all together for the final film, the only chance they'll have to bond as a group onscreen, as well as the only time Finn would have to actually get to know Rey.
I don’t fully understand this ask. Kylo doesn’t know anything about Rey. He may have information that he stole from her mind, but that’s basically like saying someone who hacks and stalks you knows everything about you. Its not actually knowing a person, its stealing their info without their consent.
Kylo knows nothing about Rey but what he took from her mind by force and even if it turns out they are or aren’t related, that doesn’t stop the fact that their history from beginning till know is riddled with abuse, lies, pain, and literal torture. Rey can be the daughter of Watto and Dexter Jettster yet it won’t make her suddenly want to hop Kylo’s bones or make Kylo want Rey considering by TLJ, he swears to kill her to hurt Luke…wow….I wonder why Kylo thinks killing this random girl would hurt Luke…
Anyway, compare that to Finn, who may not know how many Beatles Rey ate last Monday for lunch, but he knows who she is as a person, what she cares about and how she treats others. They’ve fought for the other, saved the other, and were ready and willing to die for the other by the end of TFA. Throughout these two films, Finn and Rey’s relationship has been the only thing that seemingly hasn’t been dropped, subverted, or will know need to be readdressed with a POV truth or retcon.
I have a great number of worries when it comes to TROS, Reylo happening isn’t one of them. Reylo was never a thing in the narrative of the films. At best, it was Johnson just trolling and gaslighting, at worst it was Johnson baiting because he’s a troll, but knowing he could never do it because no one would sign off on it anyway. I don’t honestly think Johnson cared about anything other than leaving his mark anyway. He seems pretty uninterested where the story goes now that his time in the director’s chair is over.
This seems to be a regular reylow thing, just... cutting out the context of everything that came before to fixate on the end result. “Omg bridal carry!!!” Um, she’s only being carried because he assaulted her and rendered her unconscious. “He knows everything about her!!” Because he stole that info from her mind, Karen. Consent doesn’t seem to matter very much to shippers and that’s worrying. Consent only becomes super duper important when it comes to Finn because they constantly harp on how Rey told him to stop taking her hand--while disregarding the fact that she later willingly held his hand multiple times, hugged him, lay on top of him to die with him. Their racism is so fucking transparent.
No, Finn doesn’t know any biographical facts about Rey that she didn’t choose to disclose to him, and he didn’t pry or force disclosure from her because he’s not a controlling creep like Kylo. This is what’s known as normal, respectful human behavior. Reylos could try romanticizing that for a change.