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.
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.