Tumblr: No she isn’t! There is a perfectly logical explanation as to why she mastered everything she touched perfectly on the first try.
Star Wars fans: ….how then?
Tumblr: She used the Force.
Star Wars fans:
that is literally how the force works if you can use it have you never seen a star wars movie before or
anakin never finished a race, then wins one first time out
anakin never flew a starship before and manages to do what the other pilots couldn’t: blow up a droid control ship
let’s not forget luke
luke never used a lightsaber or piloted an x-wing before, then the second he uses the force, bam, perfect first time out
lmao look at this person tryin’ to call rey a mary sue like it’s 2004
[ Image in the OP is Han saying “That’s not how the force works!” in The Force Awakens; images in reply are of the parts of previous movies being discussed. ]
That and like. She has better reasons for knowing this stuff than the above dudes do.
Like, of COURSE she knows all about mechanics- she’s been scavenging starships for parts most of her life, so knowing what’s what and how it works is a crucial life skill.
When she handles a lightsaber, she’s very obviously using it like she would a staff (and spends most of the fight running away from Kylo anyway). You know, like the staff she carries with her all the time for self-defense in the desert hellhole she grew up in.
Everything we see her do with the Force is stuff Kylo did in front of her- he invades her mind, and she invades his and then mind-tricks a Stormtrooper (which still takes her three tries). He Force-holds her and later tries to Force-pull a lightsaber, and she Force-pulls it to her instead.
Practically everyone in the Star Wars universe is casually multilingual, and the only character in TFA who’s shown to be unable to understand at least one of Chewie or BB-8 is Finn, who was raised and brainwashed as a Stormtrooper (and neither the Empire nor the First Order seems to be much of an equal opportunity employer when it comes to species). Given her scavenger history, Rey having met astromech droids before isn’t just possible, but likely.
Her skills are better-established than either Luke’s or Anakin’s before they matter, but nope, she’s the Mary Sue, apparently.
For god’s sake, if you take Episode 1 at its word, Anakin was a goddamn virgin birth caused by the will of the force, and has an extensive prophecy about him being the Chosen One.
Can I point out that han is the orange dotted line?
"FUCKING FINN", except I see Finn becoming more a Jedi alongside Rey, his empathy being a key trait to the Jedi code as is Rey's alleged ties to the Skywalker line.
all I ask for in the new star wars films is leia with a lightsaber
I don’t think they give non-force sensitives lightsabers, but I also don’t think they’ve established Leia as force sensitive or not, so who knows
leia is anakin’s daughter. if she’s not force sensitive, I’ll eat my shoe.
The heck do you mean “they haven’t established Leia as Force-sensitive?”
Have you not seen Empire Strikes Back? The movie where her Force-sense was pinging every five minutes? Or in Return of the Jedi: “The Force is strong in my family. I have it. My father has it. My sister has it.” “In time, you’ll learn to use that power too.”
Leia is just as much a basket of potential-Jedi as Luke is.
“No, there is another.” HOW DID YOU MISS THAT
Because girl.
“In Expanded Universe materials set after Return of the Jedi, Leia is portrayed as a founding member of the New Republic. Although most of her life is devoted to such matters of state, she engages in limited study of the Jedi arts, with Luke as her teacher. Notably, she wields a blue lightsaber that she built herself.” [x]
fake geek boys
Even the dang trailer SPELLS “My sister has it”
“I’m sure Luke wasn’t on that thing when it blew…” “He wasn’t. I can feel it.”
fake geek boys
this post is golden
reblogging cause one of my followers tried to tell me Leia isn’t force sensitive
Who TF thinks Leia isn’t force-sensitive???!?!?!??!?! It’s literally right there, in the original trilogy. She has just as much Force as Luke. I don’t necessarily think she needs to develop it, really, because she is just as badass as a General/politician, but she certainly has it.
I think she has developed it. Just not by following the path of the Jedi.
One of the things I think Star Wars should explore goes back to “Bring balance to the Force.” As much as the prequels sucked, what they did give us was the Jedi being messed up.
The Jedi having degenerated into this dogmatic, insular mess of repressing emotions at all cost.
They misunderstood the prophecy. Anakin did bring balance to the Force - by destroying the Jedi. Oops.
One of the things we see in the new movie is the character of Maz Kanata.
She is clearly Force sensitive. She is clearly not a Jedi.
Leia - strong in the Force, not a Jedi. Because she knows she can do more good for the Light as a general and politician - that’s where her skills are.
Rey is going to be a Jedi. She’s probably going to be the one who works out how to bring them back without it happening all over again.
But what is Finn going to be? There’s pretty solid evidence that Finn is Force sensitive.
Will he be a Jedi or something else?
Will we finally see that there are many ways to use the Force.
“That’s not how the Force works.”
Isn’t it?
Anakin joined both orders, Jedi and Sith, to learn how to protect what he loves, and then he burned both orders to the ground when they wouldn’t let him love.
The Jedi rejected love as being insufficiently selfless; the Sith rejected love as being insufficiently selfish. Anakin brought balance to the Force in two steps, tearing the dogma of each to the ground around him, for love.
The balance point of the Force is love.
Luke uses it, guided by love, to be a warrior, knight, and teacher.
Leia uses it, guided by love, to be a stateswoman, general, and visionary.
Rey and Finn will use it, guided by love, to be whatever they want to be.
The imbalance was everyone, Jedi and Sith alike, who sought out children, took them from their lives, and told them, because you have this power, this is the life you must lead.” Balance means keeping you life and keeping your loved ones, and letting your heart show you the proper path.
Also LEIA IS FORCE SENSITIVE AS FRICK.
On an unrelated note
“I don’t think they give non-force sensitives lightsabers
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