Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[Molach]

She was salvaging spaceship parts for a living, so a pretty good engineer, who'd have seen a bunch of different ships. And beyond understanding how ships work and the practice on her bike-thingy what else is there to being a good pilot? The film established that she was tied to the planet by family rather than lack of talent.

As someone else said we should also discuss James Bond, Han Solo (who is so good he can bend distance into time) and everyone from star trek if it's an important thing to point out about Rey.

Being daughter of the son of Anakin Skywalker, who had a midichlorin [gag] count off the charts, who as a small annoying child as only human participated in podracing, maybe helped too.

The point of the Kessel run is not to use less time, it is to maneuver boldy near dangerous stuff so your run is the shortest possible.
In my test run I spent near a parminute getting through there, so kudos to Han on his record-breaking run.

[Molach]

Heh, I watched the original trilogy with my sister(who hadn't seen it before) and she was wondering how Luke learned to be a Jedi in 2 days while Anakin took over 10 years.

Regarding Rey, I was happy to explain most things(including the flying) as just being strong with the force -> good reflexes, intuition. I thought it could be assumed she had some prior flying and mechanical experience too. The only one I really objected to was the mind control.

I enjoyed the movie itself, some great scenes that were obviously meant to tug on your nostalgia, but they worked for me anyway. Everything about Death Star 3.0 detracted from a great start though.

It seems becoming a jedi isn't necessary about the training. More experience. And realizing "there is no spoon". And "do not give in to your hate". Luke was not a jedi in V, and he was warned not to go against Vader. A few years later, and a good amount of exp. points later he returns to Dagobah, receives no additional training, and is told to face Vader.

Also a 6-year-old is too old for training, but a 20+ year old is not? He even becomes Jedi in record time? Yeah, training schmaining. Just an excuse to snatch 'younglings' from their home and propaganda them.

[Bobchillingworth]

Between having adults abduct children into a secretive cult with no external oversight, and a profoundly dumb celibacy mandate, the Jedi Temple was really an abuser's dream come true. Palpatine clearly did the galaxy a favor by burning it down.

[darrelljs]

I'd suggest everyone stop trying to weave logical consistency into something whose creators didn't care to include it in the first place.

Darrell

[BRickAstley]

I'd suggest everyone stop trying to judge Star Wars under the pretense that to be good everything has to be logically consistent in our universe, when it's a damn Space Opera and wonderful for it.

[Bobchillingworth]

Where's the fun in that?!

[Commodore]

You *really* don't want to judge Star Wars by the standards of good space opera...

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Heh, I watched the original trilogy with my sister(who hadn't seen it before) and she was wondering how Luke learned to be a Jedi in 2 days while Anakin took over 10 years.

Regarding Rey, I was happy to explain most things(including the flying) as just being strong with the force -> good reflexes, intuition. I thought it could be assumed she had some prior flying and mechanical experience too. The only one I really objected to was the mind control.

I enjoyed the movie itself, some great scenes that were obviously meant to tug on your nostalgia, but they worked for me anyway. Everything about Death Star 3.0 detracted from a great start though.

It seems becoming a jedi isn't necessary about the training. More experience. And realizing "there is no spoon". And "do not give in to your hate". Luke was not a jedi in V, and he was warned not to go against Vader. A few years later, and a good amount of exp. points later he returns to Dagobah, receives no additional training, and is told to face Vader.

Also a 6-year-old is too old for training, but a 20+ year old is not? He even becomes Jedi in record time? Yeah, training schmaining. Just an excuse to snatch 'younglings' from their home and propaganda them.

Haha he spent a few hours grinding busting wamp rats and mynocks.

[KingOfPain]

WTF, really, Star Wars packaging on mandarin oranges!? What's next, light sabre condoms, anyone?

Guess I don't have to go and take a picture of it. It's better to steal someone else bandwidth, right?

[Dantski]

What's next, light sabre condoms, anyone?

Not sure if you serious or not but yes those actually exist.