"Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker" Trailer

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KLAMarine said:

starcraft said:
I am really excited for this, and have massive regret that I wasted time reading the toxic comments.

Rey has proven to be a great character so far - well written and well acted. Star Wars has always allowed force-capable characters to become powerful very quickly. People bitching and whinging about Mary-Sue concerns must never have liked Star Wars, given Luke Skywalker was the biggest Mary-Sue of all.

*received a couple of hours of spiritual guidance in a jungle*

*crushes all enemies*

...No.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't create this ridiculous graphic.

It remains unclear how much training each of Luke and Rey received, but empirically the evidence we have suggests Rey received more instruction from Luke than Luke received from Yoda. Yoda himself appeared to state that Rey's training was sufficient.

Rey's knowledge, thus far, of mind probing and telekinesis pale's in comparison to Luke's in RotJ. She successfully tricked one stormtropper after initially failing. Luke was capable of mind tricking anyone except a Hutt or another force wielder.

Rey proved incapable of easily repelling the dark side in the cave, her initial efforts to adopt telekinesis failed, she was manipulated easily and obviously by Snoke at great distances. Indeed, only Kylo demonstrated any ability to deceive or defeat Snoke.

Rey was left alone as a child on a desert planet full of slavers. She survived as an athletic scavenger as a lone, young girl in that environment. If 'competent pilot from flying and and shooting his T-16 counts' then Rey's experiences should too. We have no knowledge of whether she'd flown previously, but its strongly suggested she had. As a force user, she picked up the quirks of the Falcon quickly, like every other jedi in the Galaxy.

TL:DR This totallist argument that Rey is a Mary Sue, somehow distinct from Luke, requires lists like the above to be reasonable. Clearly they can be picked apart ad nausuem. One reason so much of this hate seems to be motivated by something other than a genuine attempt to engage with the franchise is this clear refusal to acknowledge any information that conflicts with a pre-determined view of Disney's Star Wars films.

Don't like the latest movies? Thats your right. By the only two metrics available to us (reviews and box office receipts), you're in a very loud, small minority.