re: Rumor: Disney has finally gotten the message, will return Star Wars to "boy brand" roots

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Rey didn’t start off bad. It was when they made her an indestructible Mary Sue that things went off the rails.

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I mean...I vividly remember A LOT of people pointing out how powerful and skilled she was with little to no training in The Force Awakens. Many people, myself included, thought this would be addressed in the as yet untitled Episode VIII. However, after the abortion that was Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi, it became apparent that there was absolutely no reason as to why she could so easily manipulate the Force with very little need for a teacher. By the time they retconned her lineage into The Rise of Skywalker it was too late. It also appeared so randomly and was executed so clumsily, everyone could tell that this was a response to all of the negativity fans heaped onto Rian Johnson's "filthy junk traders" reveal in The Last Jedi.