DrDre said:
It’s not ridiculous. It’s about the message the scene sends to the viewer. Here we have Rey towering over Luke holding a lightsaber, forcing him to tell the truth, which he eventually does. Luke looks old, worn, and pathetic, while Rey stands over, and lectures him. If Luke could have easily bested Rey, why did he end up on his back, spilling his guts?

You know there was a time when young people learned from their elders, whether we are talking about Jedi in a movie or boxers or people learning on the job at work. The new generation comes in, they are physically healthier and in their prime, they have more stamina, and they have ambition, ready to seize their opportunity and make something of their life. What they don’t have is wisdom or skill. They train, they work hard, and when they no longer need teaching, they have everything they need to accede and take their place in the primary role.

This narrative has happened billions of times in the real world. And it has been mimicked thousands upon thousands of times over the years in films.

Whatever happened to those days?

Since when is it en vogue for an upstart to start off with skill they need? Talent is fine…but unearned skill? And to lecture their elders as if they have been there before, haha!

I suspect what really happened with the Disney movies is one, they have too many cooks in the kitchen and too many products to sell in the movies. Developing characters takes hard work and time on screen. If you’re out of time because the movie is filled with so much BS from the toy department, well I guess you just cut time by giving the hero everything they need from Day 1. Another issue is the team working on these movies is not working together under a single vision and story. They gave control on the TFA to an episodic TV writer. Then the next movie was written by an entirely new person with (obviously) and entirely different vision. It’s really hard or impossible to have meaningful character development this way.