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DougieP
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Can't be Bothered: justifying Rey's power vs Luke's
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20-Apr-2019, 6:25 AM

DominicCobb said:

DougieP said:

screams in the void said:

to be fair , the film makers actually acknowledge in The Last Jedi that Rey’s powers are not the norm . Snoke says to Kylo , "you were unbalanced , bested by a girl who never held a lightsaber "!

The film makers do but, more importantly, the characters within the film don’t. For example Yoda trained jedi for years, including Luke. Very difficult task but Rey doesn’t need any at all. Yet Yoda doesn’t say “Amazing this is. Need to watch her we do. This much power, pull her to the dark side it can” or anything like that at all. No one bats an eye as if this is the norm.

Have you seen the film?

JEDIT: I’m sorry, it occurred to me the line I’m thinking of is in the trailer as well

Yes, 3 times. I had to rack my brain to realise what you are talking about. You mean Luke, right? “I’ve seen this raw strength only once before in Ben Solo. It didn’t scare me enough then. It does now.” I guess your right, you got me there.

I guess i’m just looking for more. Outside of this line its not addressed (your probably going to correct me again here?) at least not to the extent that I would expect. For example, my partner has no idea at all how to drive a car. Not a single thing. I had to tell her what a clutch was for a while back. If I put her in a Formula 1 car she wouldn’t be able to win the race. If she did though, imagine how insane that would be. Everyone would be chatting about it.

Rey is very similar to this. Picking up the lightsaber (it started before this actually) and just wins and wins. Its a very different way of becoming a master that we have never seen before. Even the “chosen one” needed training. Why wasn’t there are conversation about it between Yoda and Luke? It doesn’t seem like LF are going to address it ether.

The only way I can possibly think on how to explain this whole thing is that Snoke was Darth Plagueis. Plagueis could bring people back to life/create life, he created Anakin as he had no dad. Snoke/Plagueis found a way to bring himself back to life in the afterworld. Because he is even more powerful now, he can create the chosen one 2.0 - Rey. Thats the only explanation i can come up with to explain all of this.