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 😄
When did Luke ever go to the Academy? Certainly wasn’t in the film i watched 😉
All we ever knew of Luke piloting anything was his Skyhopper. Yet he was suddenly able to pilot an X-wing. We had never seen Leia pilot anything, yet she was suddenly able to fly the Falcon. It’s obvious that Rey had been working on the Falcon as she was knowledgeable about the modifications that Unkar Plutt had done to the ship. She isn’t exactly great at flying the falcon at first either. She almost destroys it trying to take off. So why is this so unrealistic to some, yet are fine with Luke being able to perfectly fly a ship he had never had any experience with before and Leia flying a ship when she had never piloted anything up until that point? Luke’s piloting skills were never even mentioned by anyone else until the Special Editions, yet we were all fine with it before then.