LogFAQs > #913519234

This would be like if I complained about Rey being able to use the Force untrained, then if someone pointed out that Anakin was able to pilot a pod-racer - a feat no other human, Force-sensitive or no, had ever accomplished - with no formal training, I responded "Yeah, well, now you're just excusing the plot and you're not the director, so it doesn't count."

Anakin was fortold by prophecy to be the chosen one. He had no clue how to utilize the force and basically operated on instinct. He couldn't even do a basic force push until after joining the order. Rei pulled off things like mind trickery when just a short while ago she didn't even know the Force was a real thing. So no. They aren't the same at all.

It's not that I can't accept someone figuring out the force on their own. It's that I can't accept someone basically having just figured out that computers aren't demon boxes with imps slapping the words up on the screen suddenly turning into a master hacker overnight.
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