Creox said:
Here’s a thought. Perhaps her and Kylo are the epitome of force users. She’s not a Mary sue but the last conduit for the force, light and dark. She is the first to access and use the full potential of it?

I’m not sure what you mean by this, but if Rey and Kylo are simply lucky enough to be imbued with all this power, it becomes rather uninteresting if there are no consequences. And again it diminishes Luke. It’s as if the saga is saying that Jedi greatness isn’t that difficult to attain after all, and that Luke was simply a lousy candidate.

People keep saying that the powers come easily and that Luke’s attitude was the problem. I don’t buy this. You don’t get to become Martina Navratilova or Arnold Schwarzenegger just because you have self-confidence or a good sense of decency. Football teams don’t win games merely because there’s a mystical ‘football energy’ that magically chose them that particular day. Sports would be deeply uninteresting if that were the case.

I get that many fans don’t mind the ‘willy nilly Force powers’ vibe of the new series. I personally prefer the subtlety of the OT version - that Jedi abilities are rare and nuanced and absolutely have to be earned.