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Originally Posted by GGG
People point to that aspect of the magic powers miss a few things
1) Ren was shot with the bow caster which was specifically shown to destroy people. Then Finn fights Rae for a long time and Ren had just killed his father so was generally in less control. But I agree she gained her powers very quickly.
But in the second movie even after training with Luke she is easily defeated by Snoke and only saved by Ren which is very similar to empire where Luke is defeasted
2) It ignores the Mary Sue part of Luke which is flying an X-wing and destroying a Death Star and leading a commando mission in an space station to rescue a high value captive. In Luke’s case he has no skills to justify there abilities. Whereas Rae as repaired and acavamfed ships living on her own in the desert for leave whose much harder life and therefore is much more likely to be able to fight.
So the key here is that I’m not arguing Rey doesn’t magical get powers without effort, it’s that Luke out performs his levels specifically when blowing up the Death Star and raiding the Death Star and this is just ignored when complaining about Rey. It’s both or Neither.
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Naw...Rey was just dumb.
Luke had been practicing with various vehicles speeding across sand dunes since he was a small child. That was literally the only thing he had to do. The most powerful force user in the galaxy being able to cross over those skills to flying an x-wing is pretty believable. Even then he had guidance from Obi Wan's force ghost.
After that incident Luke needs years of training before he can even move a light sabre with the force.
Rey had never picked up a lightsabre before. Wounded or not, Kylo Ren was the most formidable warrior in the galaxy at that point.
As for Snoke...he was ridiculously overpowered too, as were all the force users in the sequel trilogy. It was as though whoever wrote the sequel trilogy had never actually seen the original trilogy and just wrote about whatever they thought would be cool.