I dislike how she seems to be so strong and capable right out the gate. In ANH, Luke comes across as kind of an idiot, and only later with training grows.
And why exactly does our main protagonist have to be damn near pathetic in the beginning?
In comparison to Luke in ESB Rey is still well behind him so there’s still plenty of progression for her character
You might point out that he destroyed the Death Star by opening up to the Force with little prior instruction.
I also may point out that he deflected 3 bolts from the training droid when told to stretch out with his feelings; which is something anyone could have told him. Furthermore, he did this while his view was obstructed. But no one bats an eye at that either.
But Rey shows up able to pilot the Falcon through an escape that would make Han wince,
I’m not exactly sure you what mean? Wince as on wincing at how she almost crashed the Falcon before the chase even started? Or wincing at how she skidded it across the ground during the chase?
OR are you implying that he would wince at how good her performance is or that he would be wincing if he were in her shoes? Kind of hard to believe seeing as how this is the man the flew through an asteroid field as if he was walking down the goddamn sidewalk.
a ship she strongly implied to never have flown before
But she has flown other ships and he has had experience using a flight simulator. And even then her performance was pretty decent at best.
Also I retort with the fact that Luke had never flown an X-Wing before and still managed to do a more than fine job in a dog fight. Bullseying womprats in your T-16 is NOT like being in a space battle with pilots who are far more experienced than him.
as well as do things via the Force that Luke took years to discover.
She’s a fast learner but so is Luke apparently. At least when it comes to blast deflection.
And if I’m playing by your standards, this opinion has been very prevalent following the release of the film, so you must be objectively wrong for disagreeing.
A lot of people also think Kylo Ren whined in the film where the isn’t one line of dialogue to prove it and the definition of whining doesn’t suit his actions. Ever heard of a popular misconception?
Change her to male and none of this is any different.
The feats don’t chance but the perception of those feat do. I bet my right foot that if Rey was a male there wouldn’t be so many people bitching about it. There have been so many male characters that fit perimeters for being a Gary Stu but Rey…the first female protagonist in a Star Wars film is the one who is making the term nearly a household name/term. There’s definitely a correlation but I think most of the reason for the backlash is that she is more competent than Luke was in STAR WARS and since a lot of people’s view of the OT is so fragile it somehow diminishes the character.