thismeintiel said:
Wow, I guess you weren't joking. Well, I contend that you and the filmmakers are the true sexists. One of three ways. Either a) you are fine with her being completely in tune with the force just because she is a girl, while people on here would have been equally pissed if when they found Anakin in Ep. 1 he would have almost everything mastered everything in a couple of days, since that's lazy writing or b) you wanted a strong female character and to you that means "girl power" overcomes all or c) you don't feel girls deserve the character arc that a man would be given in having to train to become better. |
For as much as they copied story elements from New Hope, Luke didn't have mastery of the force instantly. He was able to trust his "gut" (force) to launch a torpedo. In episode #2 he was able to do a force telekinesis (months after some minor Obi-Won training); and couldn't mind trick anyone until months after yoda's training and his confrontation with Darth Vader.
Luke was never able to mind read in any of the movies -- or even the books as far as I remember.
Rey was able to gain mastery over all these talents in ~ 24 hours.