re: Force Awakens Revisited

on an abstract level the more aggressive you are, the more vulnerable you are. You may end up getting a first round knockout but you may also find yourself on your arse when you shouldn't be. I agree with the whole thing but I don't think of it within the rules of the Star Wars universe (and the force is mysterious rather than established rules) but rather just the human experience

Give credit to JJ for avoiding CGI as much as possible.

Note about leia. Forget the voice and weight gain. She is nearly sixty. Her character was washed out. Gone were the sass and spunkiness. It was zombie acting and zombie script for her character. That's the problem.

Why did Rey fly the Falcon better than Solo ever did in the OT? They go out of the way to make her take off very clumsy with the Falcon dragging on the ground and crashing into things yet minutes later she flies it effortlessly through a grave yard.

Her part had oatmeal acting and oatmeal script. Bland, steel cut

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Why did Rey fly the Falcon better than Solo ever did in the OT?

We never saw the pinnacle of Han's piloting prowess. He was a smuggler, and if you know anything about the Kessel Run, then that should tell you all you need to know about it.

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That tells me nothing, other than a often-used line from the movies.
If we're going from outside sources, the Kessel Run is a navigational feat, more than a flying feat. The "piloting" is more old-time piloting, like Anjin-son from Shogun, not "piloting" as in flying and aerial acrobatics.

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They go out of the way to make her take off very clumsy with the Falcon dragging on the ground and crashing into things yet minutes later she flies it effortlessly through a grave yard.

It's addressed in the novelizations

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Again, terrible way to do something in a movie.

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However, even if this is discarded, it's not a stretch to justify it. She knows how spacecraft work, she's spent her entire life inside of them and learning all about them. She had a clear opinion on the falcon when they were running to find a ship ("That's garbage"), which leads us to believe she was familiar with the spacecraft at the spaceport

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Being a mechanic does not qualify you to drive a race car or an airplane, it shouldn't effect flying a spaceship. Nor does seeing the ship and believing it to be junk. However, she does seem to have some inside info on what has been done to modify the Falcon, so she has been inside of it... so why doesn't she know what it is? The more you consider her initial comments about it being junk, and then how she knows everything about it, it makes you wonder a little.

I guess an alternative is that the other, destroyed ship might just have been that much better

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How was Luke able to fly an X-wing? He has his own speeder, and yet he tells Han the first time they meet that "I'm not such a bad pilot myself." In TFA, we're given more information than we were given for Luke in the OT on his initial piloting skills.

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Wrong, go back and watch Star Wars (A New Hope if you call it that), preferably an unmodified old version if you can find it.

There is a sleek looking craft in the garage, something angular, definitely not the landspeeder.
Luke talks about bulls-eyeing Womp Rats in Beggar's canyon from his T 65 (or whatever the designation is).
Biggs makes a comment vouching for Luke's piloting skills, the best bush pilot in the outer territories or something like that.
And that's all before he climbs into the X Wing.

There is nothing suggesting Rey has ever driven anything more than a speeder bike, prior to her piloting the Falcon. In fact, her storyline is that she's stuck on that desert planet, just scavenging away, waiting for the family to come get her.