Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 22:54:58 GMT
Dec 13, 2017 22:35:30 GMT @bartlesby said:
Dec 13, 2017 21:59:18 GMT @painbow said:
Yes but 1) Luke knows he has abilities by this point and 2) this particular ability is hardly mind blowing.Rey meanwhile 1) knows absolutely nothing! She literally just decides... 'hey, I wonder if i can make this guard do what I say for some reason. I have no reason for believing that I can but screw it, let's give it a shot' and 2) she uses an ability that has been shown to be extremely difficult to master (Luke, in fact, demonstrates how far he's come in Return of the Jedi by using this particular ability). The earlier films establish that you don't just randomly know how to use these abilities. Yoda even thinks Luke is too old to learn how to master them (he ain't much older than Rey).
It's extremely bad story telling.
And again: I know that you're an idiot. If Rey was a man, I'd be asking exactly the same question.
HOW!?
It makes sense for her character, which had already been strongly implied as having some inherent connection to the Force, to be able make a guess at what he was doing and boldly attempt to emulate it. Rey is also a far more determined and strong-willed person than Luke was, initially, so perhaps that also plays a part in how quickly she can learn magic that is entirely reliant on having faith in its ability to do the impossible.
Good grief, no.
The movie will eventually try to explain it but I suspect the explanation will be weak (she's related to Vader, she's a human clone of Yoda, she's the ultimate Jedi, blah blah yawn). But if they simply fudge it altogether and offer no real explanation then that's shoddy as hell.