adywan said:
So, apart from hitting two troopers with 3 shots (not exactly expert and the second trooper wasn’t exactly a quick turn around shot either)
She hit 3 troopers with 4 shots, with the only shot missed being the first time she ever fired a blaster. And yes, the 3rd trooper she hit was a quick turn-around shot. The second one sort of was too, for that matter, not to mention being at relatively long range for a handgun.
you make excuses for the other two times she shoots at anything.
I’m not making “excuses”. The movie isn’t clear about the other two times, as I’ve already pointed out. However, there were at least two shots she fired at Kylo Ren that would have definitely hit, because he deflected them with his lightsaber.
So where the hell is there any indication that she is an expert?
Three shots, three kills, one-handed grip (far less stable than a two-handed grip), two of which appeared to be at a range of 25 yards or so, within 30 seconds of firing a blaster for the first time, and without even the most rudimentary instruction from anyone.
Your excuses actually show that there is no way to know if she is a good shot or not.
See above.
I wonder if you say the same thing about Luke, who had NO combat experience, as far as we knew through the film had never fired a gun before, yet was able to expertly shoot out the door controls from the other side of the hangar bay with one shot?
Luke had a gun and carried it with him on Tatooine when he went searching for R2D2. You think he’d never fired his own gun before (we know that Rey had never fired one before because the movie made a point of letting us know that she never had)? Also, he missed what he was shooting at with the stormtrooper’s blaster many times. Look at how many times he fired at the stormtroopers on the other side of the chasm before hitting one of them, and he was even using a two-handed grip, and with three of the standing close together, forming a bigger target. I counted eight shots, one hit.