It's less about skills and more about strength. You need both to be a good fighter. You can be the most skilled fighter in the world and you'll still get your ass beat if your opponent doesn't even notice when you hit him. Rey looks like she needs to have Kylo open jars for her.
It's slightly less egregious with things like lightsabers and the force, which almost take strength entirely out of the equation, but they just had to show her performing an implausible feat of strength first, to prove that she's better than men even with 0 MP.
Ok. Realistically yeah she wouldn’t be able to take on any man, but we’re talking movie magic here. Where every single show or movie that has a female protagonist can take on any man. Also, if we’re looking at realism, there would be no way she could survive on an empty desert planet. All I’m saying is that those two skills it would make sense from the perspective of it being a movie. All her other skills leaves too many plot holes.
Some degree of fighting skill I’m more than willing to put down to movie convenience. Beating Kylo, who has trained under the two most notable force mentors alive in the setting for pretty his entire life the first time she picks up a lightsaber? I’m not willing to accept that.
You can go out-of-universe, where people who are actually trained in staff fighting or sword fighting will tell you the skills aren’t really transferable, or you can go in-universe, where it’s canon that a lightsaber is so weird to wield because it has no weight that most people are more likely to cut one of their own a limbs off than harm an opponent, and either way, what she did makes no sense.
Oh yeah I’ll admit that her fighting against Kylo or those red guards in The Last Jedi was bullshit. I only bring up fighting skills against the regulars of that planet she lives on. What I also did notice is that they even went out of their way to fuck up how Kylo fights. How the hell does his fighting skills look so subpar and on the same level as Rey? Those movies have so many plot holes that they never bother to fill in.
She was a scrawny girl that could fight multiple opponents with a stick. Her fighting skills made no sense.
It's less about skills and more about strength. You need both to be a good fighter. You can be the most skilled fighter in the world and you'll still get your ass beat if your opponent doesn't even notice when you hit him. Rey looks like she needs to have Kylo open jars for her.
It's slightly less egregious with things like lightsabers and the force, which almost take strength entirely out of the equation, but they just had to show her performing an implausible feat of strength first, to prove that she's better than men even with 0 MP.
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Ok. Realistically yeah she wouldn’t be able to take on any man, but we’re talking movie magic here. Where every single show or movie that has a female protagonist can take on any man. Also, if we’re looking at realism, there would be no way she could survive on an empty desert planet. All I’m saying is that those two skills it would make sense from the perspective of it being a movie. All her other skills leaves too many plot holes.
Some degree of fighting skill I’m more than willing to put down to movie convenience. Beating Kylo, who has trained under the two most notable force mentors alive in the setting for pretty his entire life the first time she picks up a lightsaber? I’m not willing to accept that.
You can go out-of-universe, where people who are actually trained in staff fighting or sword fighting will tell you the skills aren’t really transferable, or you can go in-universe, where it’s canon that a lightsaber is so weird to wield because it has no weight that most people are more likely to cut one of their own a limbs off than harm an opponent, and either way, what she did makes no sense.
Oh yeah I’ll admit that her fighting against Kylo or those red guards in The Last Jedi was bullshit. I only bring up fighting skills against the regulars of that planet she lives on. What I also did notice is that they even went out of their way to fuck up how Kylo fights. How the hell does his fighting skills look so subpar and on the same level as Rey? Those movies have so many plot holes that they never bother to fill in.