What are the chances a Poe/Rey romance is shoehorned in?

That "I know" line and the way Rey smiled at him made me wonder if they were hinting a future romantic angle between the two, but that's about it. If we consider little things like that, then Reylo all the way because those "hints" (ha!) accumulate to much more than Finn/Rey or Poe/Rey. At most they can show Poe flirting with Rey (like Lando with Leia in ESB), and Kylo getting further angrier. But I wish they would not, because the heroine being attracted to two guys and choosing the one she knew from the beginning is so cliché, as is heroine breifly falling for someone because they were hot and charming when she was already in a deep relationship with the main hero. It just adds unnecessary romantic drama.

I don't know how much of the trilogy was outlined from the beginning, but from a story point of view:

  • Rey is the lead role.

  • The next important characters of TFA were Finn and Kylo (not counting the OT trio)

  • Poe was meant to be killed in the crash, JJ changed the character's arc because Oscar made the character very interesting.

  • Both previous trilogies, and Rogue One and even Solo movie by the look of it, has a central romance involving main characters.

If they planned Rey to have a romantic interaction with anyone during TFA, and I think they must have, it would be either Finn or Kylo. Not a character who became main character because the actor was good, or because he shared scenes with more important character (Leia). I am not contesting that Poe is a main character, merely that he was not originally in the grand scheme of things. (It's very likely that Poe would have a more important role in EP IX because with Carrie Fisher gone there needs to be someone familiar and relatable at the Resistance helm.)

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