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Originally Posted by Roughneck
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.
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I find the "mary sue" moniker inappropriate and mildly offensive. Rey is who she is. The character needs to be powerful in the force for the story to work. She is not going to be "trained" by another Jedi. They're purposefully moving away from that circular story. She's out there figuring it out on her own, that's what makes the character interesting. The biggest "moment" in the movies to-date was when the lightsaber flew out of the snow into her hand. That's only accomplished if she takes this arc. Think of Rey as Neo. Did you have a problem with Neo in the Matrix? Just accept that she's the new Anakin or uber-force user just incredibly raw and needing direction.
Now, ideally, I'd love to see a Rey heel turn. It will never happen. But I'd love to see her take her walk in the woods of the dark side and really explore that in the next movie.