Lol thanks for reminding me why I love Star Wars but always avoid the communities and fans at every possible cost 👍
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Episode 8 man, everyone is like: "I never see it coming, rey is a nobody", "She is the first one that is not from a lineage", "A heroine that is not the chosen one for once". And I'm like she is strong as fuck in the force, without any training and has visions of the past well if she's not have a reason to be this OP so the force choose her to be OP, if the force chose her SHE IS THE FUCKING CHOSEN ONE.
Jesus Christ did you miss the point. Every page of The Last Jedi's script has "ANYONE CAN BE A HERO" watermarked in giant bold font. It opens with some random soldier using the Force in desperation. It ends with a slave child casually telekinesing a broom while looking to the stars. The climax is Kylo telling Rey, fuck mystery, nobody owes you a destiny, you got here all on your own.
The only way it could've been more obvious is if Rey showed up on Krait - after the battle. Just debris and scorchmarks. Because when the last gasp of the Rebellion was pushed deep into the caves, some random soldier saw whimsical native fauna casually nudge giant boulders, and decided to just fuckin' try. In an ideal reading, this character would not have dialog. She would not even have a name. Who she is aggressively does not matter. Only that she understood what Luke said and Rey ignored: the Force is in all living things.
Nobody can own that.
The Last Jedi is an anarchist anti-war film plus twenty minutes of Disney going "fuck, nevermind."
That could work if it's was with any other character. The soldier and the little kid is doing small things with the force while Rey is fighting Kylo with lightsaber, doing jedi mind tricks, lifting giant bolders, fighting a small elite guard group with lightsaber and having the visions of the past, looks like the telling everyone is equal some are more equal than others.
What's equality got to do with it? Everyone has unique skills and opportunities. Rey happened to grow up swinging a stick, where proficiency with a blaster would've done very little for her lightsaber combat. She also had fuck-all odds of anything interesting happening, ever, until chaos struck her dirtball hometown.
The kid and the soldier represent potential. Rey is that potential, realized.
Nobody in the audience is gonna develop clairvoyance if they meditate intensely enough - but they invited to wonder, and to dream, and to act. This movie was supposed to be a return to the original film's everyman protagonist, the orphaned son of some unnamed soldier, with a few lucky breaks and above-average sensitivity to magic. At the end, up beside him on the podium was some sleazeball trucker with all the magical prowess of a baked potato. They were being awarded by a princess who (at the time) simply took no shit from anyone.
Even the visions were blamed on Snoke. Right?
That's exactly my problem, she is not and never has been the everyman, she doesn't have above-average magic powers she is OP from the get go. The everyman that they could use in the movie to make that point was Finn, a guy with no name, no family, with a few hints that he might have some magical powers.
Again, the whole idea is that Rey is ordinary, but to me she is not, she is special that's why I quote the line about equality
She has the power to see visions from objects like the protagonist from Jedi Fallen Order.