The above section is from the IGN article Star Wars: The Last Jedi Director Reveals Options He Considered for Rey’s Parents.
1) You failed miserably in your goal; Rey makes the Star Wars universe more about “chosen ones” than ever before. You see, until now, any life form could learn to wield the Force and be a Jedi. The EU/”Legends” books had characters who had deeply low midichlorian counts or who struggled to feel the will of the Force, but they just had to work harder to get to where others were. Sure, it was easier for Skywalkers to do it, but they still had to train and learn.
It took Luke more than three years before he finally made a physical object fly into his hand using the Force.
It also took him more than three years and loads of training before he had his first lightsaber duel... which he lost badly against someone who wasn’t even putting his full power into it, because Vader didn’t even want to kill him there.
Rey, on the other hand, is just born with the innate ability to wield the Force without ever learning or training at all. Shit, she can’t just use the Force inherently (like how Anakin could get flashes of events that were a few seconds in the future) — she’s fucking amazing at it, all of it, without ever training or learning anything. She makes things fly into her hands on the very first try. Her first lightsaber duel against someone with more than a decade of training? She wins without ever holding a fucking saber before.
“Anyone” can become a Jedi? I mean... MAYBE, but some people are born super-privileged and don’t even have to try, so they have a MASSIVE advantage over everybody else, and basically render the efforts of the “lessers” into jokes.
2) If you honestly think that the “hardest thing Rey could hear” is that her parents were already dead and were nobodies, you didn’t think about it very hard. Did you give the idea more than a couple of minutes? For example... I like the “your parents are already dead” angle, because that’s shocking and pretty mean. But if you really want to make this “the hardest thing she could hear,” maybe imagine Kylo Ren pulling out some of this shit:
What if we found out that Rey was created by Snoke (either as his daughter or by some kind of “conceived by midichlorians” experiment in an attempt to make a new Vader to serve him), and then, as she learns that he is the one who abandoned her there and he never intended to go back and get her, Kylo Ren still cuts him in half like in the final film? THAT would’ve really hurt her, explained some of her incredible powers, and opened up new questions about who her MOTHER was that the next film can deal with. Eh?
“Rey, I know you’ve never stopped thinking about your parents. The funny thing is, you’ve been close to their location more than once in the past few weeks. Your parents? They’re First Order. They’re stormtroopers. They sensed the power within you from birth, and they knew Snoke had a policy of killing any Force-sensitive newborns among the ranks, so they hid you away. They hoped they could escape one day. They trained in combat that was effective against lightsabers. They hoped they could help you learn some saber skills one day. They earned their way into Supreme Leader Snoke’s good graces, hoping to understand more about how someone with such skill manipulates the Force. They realized what hope that would bring to the Galaxy... if they could return to you, help you, and let the world see the First Order destroyed from within. And even after I read their minds, I let them sit beside the Supreme Leader every day, knowing full well that they hoped to betray him in the future. I wanted to use them. But I don’t have to do that now that I’m the new Supreme Leader. And your parents? *gestures to the bodies of the Imperial Guards on the floor* You just killed them.”
Those are just a couple of examples, but come on. I didn’t even have to TRY.
