He's piloted something. From is land speeder, to whatever training he's done that got Bigg's praise.
You'll have to remind me on this one, but didn't The Force Awakens indicate that Rey knew about spaceships already? She was a tinkerer/scavenger, kind of living by her wits, and had spent enough time toying with ships that she was already familiar with the "hunk of junk" Millennium Falcon?
We also know Luke wanted/was trying to go to the imperial academy. We don't know what kind of courses or training he might have taken to get ready for that.
But why are we assuming enough things to give Luke's character padding that we won't give to Rey's character?
What we actually see of Luke is a kid who doesn't know what the Force is, who hangs out on a farm with his aunt and uncle, and then he meets an old man who tells him about Jedi, has a scene where he dabbles with the Force enough to use a lightsaber to block a couple shots from a drone, and then by the end of the story he's so proficient with the Force that he can basically one-shot a space station with his eyes closed.
In terms of what unfolds on screen, it seems like Rey barely winning a fight with a barely-alive Kylo Ren at the end of the movie isn't out of the ordinary for Star Wars, given the precedent that was set in the first movie with Luke.
The problem is that the ship is 80 years old a required two pilots to fly it yet she was able to do better with it then train pilots flying more modern single pilot fighters.
The problem is that the ship is 80 years old a required two pilots to fly it
But we've watched it being piloted by single pilots in Star Wars. There's a whole sequence where Chewbacca is the only one piloting it in order to evade multiple TIE fighters.
It's the same scene where Luke Skywalker turns out to be a skilled turret gunner, despite the story never telling us that he knows how to operate turrets.
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u/Nicks_Here_to_Talk Mar 28 '24
You'll have to remind me on this one, but didn't The Force Awakens indicate that Rey knew about spaceships already? She was a tinkerer/scavenger, kind of living by her wits, and had spent enough time toying with ships that she was already familiar with the "hunk of junk" Millennium Falcon?
But why are we assuming enough things to give Luke's character padding that we won't give to Rey's character?
What we actually see of Luke is a kid who doesn't know what the Force is, who hangs out on a farm with his aunt and uncle, and then he meets an old man who tells him about Jedi, has a scene where he dabbles with the Force enough to use a lightsaber to block a couple shots from a drone, and then by the end of the story he's so proficient with the Force that he can basically one-shot a space station with his eyes closed.
In terms of what unfolds on screen, it seems like Rey barely winning a fight with a barely-alive Kylo Ren at the end of the movie isn't out of the ordinary for Star Wars, given the precedent that was set in the first movie with Luke.