While watching TFA, I was wondering how comes Rey can pilot ships. I understand she’s a scavenger, and she might’ve learned about mechanics in her work (though unlikely in real life), but when did she learn how to fly too? I mean, Luke has been in the Academy for some time before ANH, but what about Rey? She seems so poor she can only afford buying food, nevermind going to the Academy.
Without a proper answer from the movie, I’d say it’s too convinient to the writers that she’s got all those skills to show off just at the right time 😄
Here we enter into the realm of fan theory but such weight was placed on the survival of death in PT and in the form of Force Ghosts in the OT that maybe Rey and Ren are somehow a Jedi/Sith experiment (maybe gone wrong). Rey could have the memories of someone who knew the ship, knew how to use a lightsaber and knew how do the mind trick (lets call this person Kenobi for the sake of discussion) and Ren could have the memories of the dark lord that drove a Jedi too close to the dark side until he became Darth Vader. They whisper to them what they need to know to continue their conflict from beyond the grave.
Just a thought.
These films seem to be using not just the main films but rejected or unused concepts from earlier drafts. In an earlier script for ROTJ Yoda and Ben physically resurrected to help in the fight against the Emperor. From the little we know about the next films they are supposed to be weird.
Maybe some of these things have an in universe explanation which we haven’t seen yet. Rey could just be absorbing skills from the minds of people around her. She knows the Falcon because Han and Chewie do, She knows how to fight with a lightsaber because Ren has been trained to do so. She understands Chewie and BB8 too so she can draw skills from non-humans and robots. It could be a new Force skill where connective nature of the Force is being used as a tool.