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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Why is it so hard to accept that Rey is just really powerful with the force?
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It isn't.
What is hard to accept is how proficient she has been with it despite the lack of training and exposure. This would have made sense if she had some connection to Luke and Kylo and Jedi training in her past (lineage doesn't have to matter, but being exposed to it and being 'hidden' from it, potentially because of that power, would have made a lot more interesting of a story than just being good with it).
TFA set up what could have been a really good story for her progression that could explain away her Mary Sue criticisms, then it was just abandoned. Now anything related to her past involving any such training would just expose terrible storytelling, so they're just left with what the critics were calling her from the start: a Mary Sue.