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Originally Posted by plastroncafe
My question was why is that where that where the buck stops, not why is there a buck at all.
It's a subjective question, not an objective one.
I'm just curious why this is the sticking point.
I'm Legit curious as to why something like this so easily gets stuck in the crawl up so many. I don't understand it.
It seems so baked into the world already that I'm surprised people have as big a problem with it as they do.
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It's just a narrative thing, for me. I personally feel like we have been cheated out of an arc for Rey for the sake of moving the plot forward at a fast enough pace. She's the heroine of the story, but a rather flat character in practice. She can just do things because apparently that's all we need to know about Jedi or their training in the ST. Like she says in the film, "they lift rocks."
And if you want to compare Rey to another female character, Ahsoka from
Clone Wars/
Rebels goes from a perky, naive Padawan to a Grey Jedi who can stand toe-to-toe with Vader himself. She starts out reckless like Luke did and screws up a lot, later fighting valiantly in the Clone Wars and having to deal with the loss of her squad while in command. She is framed after the Jedi Temple is bombed and expelled from the Order. She is later pardoned, but refuses to return. And, judging by her presence in
Rebels, she's tough enough to survive Order 66.
She's terribly young (16 when she leaves the Jedi Order) when all this happens, and by some standards, she is very much a Mary Sue. She's a character inserted into an established era of the history of the Star Wars galaxy who wasn't present in the original source material (in this case, the prequels).
Clone Wars and
Rebels can be considered fan fiction to the same degree as any part of the old EU. Yet, people have responded well to her.