I’m a bit sick of people calling Rey a master lightsaber duelist or saying she mastered the Force in TFA. Until she does something like pick up an X-Wing, destroys the Rakatan Temple with a Force Wave, summons Dark Side tendril, and defeats a healthy top tier Force wielder I don’t want to hear anything about Rey mastering anything.
This*** though I do think her choreography was pretty weak compared to Rens. Adam Driver looked awesome when he fought. Rey’s choreography consisted mostly of pathetic stabs. I hope that once she gets trained by Luke she has some type of warmup fight in ep.8 where she actually has cool fighting choreography but then when she fights Ren I want him fully trained, fully in tune with the dark side. It’d be nice to see her get an ass whooping by a healthy and improved Kylo Ren that hasn’t just come out of a emotionally traumatic event.
If that does happen people will just call it back peddling. We’re going to hear a lot of “Well why did Kylo beat her now when he couldn’t beat her when she had no training?” which will start up more or less the same debates we’re having at this current time.
As it pertains to the actual story I hope that both of their dueling skills get refined. I want Rey to be more graceful with the lightsaber (which the video of Daisy training suggests) and I want Kylo to be more savage in terms of how he operates. And yes she definitely needs to struggle in VIII as it’s good character building. What would Luke be without his stumbles in ESB?