What makes A Star Wars Film?

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I never really got hooked on whether force was tangible or not.

I'm just saying the writers can never seem to agree on how it's supposed to work so it seems like they tend to pull stuff out of their butt just because the plots needs something to happen. That is part of what put me off the Sequel Trilogy, when Rey was able to do the Jedi mind trick without any training or support, despite Luke not be able to do it until after weeks of training with one of the greatest jedi masters in the galaxy. My willing suspension of disbelief just snapped at that point.

Again, this is something they do better in ATLA because they tend to explain how it is possible so its easier for me to accept.

This seems like an easy one for consideration. I have discussed as much on this forum.

Force abilities aren't representative of all jedi equally, and I'd think most any people concerned would know this. Luke was able to hit a one-in-a-million shot with minimal jedi training, and that's not incredibly different. It was established that Rey was familiar with haggling for survival on Jaku. The fact that she was left alone as a child bare to the wilderness isn't that dissimilar to Anakin Skywalker growing up as a slave on Tatooine. Surely Abrams and Kennedy cracked that egg with a hammer by using Palpatine as the budding reason, but really I find the prior connections compelling.

No she was sold to someone, wasn't she? I only saw TFA but it looked like she wasn't just abandoned in the wilderness she had someone to look after her, at least at first.

Okay but that's still consistent with my point. She's a cross between Anakin and Luke Skywalker in that she was both exposed to a life of servitude but kept her eyes open and tapped into jedi tactics at a relatively old age.

But what gets me is that she is told she has the force and just like that she can use it. She didn't even see someone do the jedi mind trick, she just does it. It seems to come out of nowhere like the writer needed to shoe-horn in a scene of her using the force and couldn't think of another way. Frankly if you want to talk about her time on Jakku it would have made more sense that she picked the lock or something.

honestly I don't remember her "being told" so to speak that she has the force. She already knew about the force like the people in New Hope knew of fallen Jedis as legendary peacekeepers. By the time the Empire was taken down people probably heard all sorts of stories about Luke Skywalker, who was a legend by reasonable story telling via the sequels.

There's also the matter of her meeting Han Solo, which would be a profound impact on anyone.