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Post #1005526

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MalàStrana
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Star Wars: Rogue One - * Non Spoiler Discussion Thread *
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Date created
2-Nov-2016, 2:16 PM

Lord Haseo said:

All I wished is that people would examine Luke the same way they do Rey.

Ok.

It takes Luke 3 years to awkwardly “Force get” his lightsaber in the snow. A few hours after having touched the very same lightsaber, Rey succeeds in “Force getting” the saber (I really don’t know the english term) in an even more spectacular way (someone else - someone with years of Jedi/proto-Sith training - was also trying to “Force get” the saber, but she easily beats him).

It takes 4 years to Luke to master the Jedi mind trick. He succeeds with Bib, fails with Jabba. Rey fails her first attempt (which occurs only a few hours after being told the existence of the Force) but a few seconds later - for some reasons which are never explained - she succeeds.

Luke almost got killed a few times (sand people, the cantina, the trash compactor, Vader in the trench, etc.) but got saved by someone else (mostly Ben and his Force protection). Rey… hum… well, at one point she’s in danger but she manages to escape (thanks to fast learning Jedi mind trick) or in other scenes she stays alive because she knows how to shoot, to kick ass with a metallic stick, to fly the Falcon, to climb, to bypass electronic devices, to use a lightsaber (just… because the script needs her to use a lightsaber), etc.

Rey might be the most powerful character ever seen in a movie; her only pain is to witness the death of someone she only got to know a few hours. Luke struggles to get a few things done and nevertheless cannot prevent Ben, Beru, Owen or Biggs from dying.