re: Disney Exec Blames The Marvels Flop on Bigoted Audience Members

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Having Rey be a Mary Sue isn’t her fault and she did the best with what she had to work with.

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this.
a couple of quick "throwaway" lines or one extra scene or two changes everything and makes her acceptable.

Showing Luke as having a workshop and cleaning/maintenancing Droids took what 30 seconds of screentime in A New Hope? And they did a good job of incorporating that into him seeing the Leia video.

That tells us he's mechanically inclined and knows a few things about technology. So when he does something later, it makes sense.

Rey never shows us anything of the sort. We know nothing about her at all. She lives in broken shite and collects scraps. But she knows how to fix the Falcon somehow.

Obi Wan telling Luke "I hear you've become a fine pilot".
One sentence. But it tells us that he's been flying around enough to have built a reputation. So when he does fancy flying, it makes sense.

Rey, some orphan that collect junk just magically knows how to be an amazing pilot.
throw us a sentence in there somewhere that tells us it's not her first time doing something.

fix just those 2 things, and your audience is already more invested n her and you can get away with a lot more after that.