I Got Chills, Theyre Multiplyin. And Im Losing Control Cause The Power Youre Supplying, Its Electrifyin.Grease

I got chills, they’re multiplyin’. And I’m losing control cause the power you’re supplying, it’s electrifyin’. Grease (1978) dir. Randal Kleiser

I see people saying that Rey found her belonging with Finn, Poe and the Resistance.

I’m sorry, but no.

Rey was part of the Resistance for a whole year at the beginning of TRoS, she knows Finn, Poe and the droids for longer than that and we still see her searching for her belonging and isolating herself from them. When Finn tells her she isn’t acting like herself, Rey straight tells him “people keep telling me they know me. I think no one does.” (he doesn’t deny it) 

And let’s not forget Ben telling her that he knows she wanted to take his hand in the Throne Room because he’s been inside her mind, which she later confirms in what is an obvious declaration of her feelings for Ben Solo:

“I did want to take your hand. Ben’s hand.”

This makes it clear that that is what Rey wanted. She wants Ben Solo, she wants to be with him (which is why she has the biggest smile on her face and desperately smooches him as soon as she comes back to life and sees Ben staring right back at her).

None of this sounds like someone whose belonging is with her friends in the Resistance, and the final proof of that is she ends up alone in Tatooine. I don’t care if you think she was there on a mission and was only there temporarily - they chose the final shot of the movie to be Rey isolated in a desert planet. If the Resistance was so important for her belonging, why didn’t they show her surrounded by her friends the way Luke was in RotJ?

At most, what you can argue is that what Rey found with the Resistance was a sense of purpose. But the belonging she seeked… that, unfortunately, was taken away from her forever, seconds after she thought she’d got it.

My only motivation in these trying times.