TV’s Frink said:
For the record, while I strongly disagree with the idea that that Rey is not the main character, I was not responding to that.

It’s pretty clear that she was intended to be the main character. But a main character has a goal and actively pursues that goal throughout the film. Not just any goal, mind you – she must actively struggle to achieve THE GOAL, emphasis added. None of that applies to Rey after she is kidnapped by Kylo. Her character suddenly becomes “an idea” (turning on its head the cliche of rescuing the damsel in distress).

Typically, the male leads will blow up the bad guys and save the female. In TFA, the male leads arrive to save Rey, but she’s already free and winds up saving them).

That’s great, but it’s just an idea that wasn’t well orchestrated with the rest of the plot. You can’t make a good film with a lot of unrelated ideas, and that’s why TFA plot falls apart, and the film is just mediocre. Rey should never devolve into a cute idea in the last act of the movie … her character should be more strongly defined than that and striving to achieve “THE GOAL” right down to the bitter end.