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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7876990" data-attributes="member: 4937">You mean like your post? Essentially you just set up a straw man version of one of several complaints about the new movies. You set up the argument in an irrational way. Then you proceeded to claim that your irrational version of the complaint proved the complaint was irrational. I don't think I've ever encountered a complaint about the character of Rey that matched the argument you just gave. The complaint about Rey's competency is not that right from the start she had a couple of talents in which she was the best of the best. That's normal in any heroic fantasy for the protagonist to have a couple of talents in which they are the best. Your post strikes me as a rationalization itself that doesn't hold up under scrutiny, because while no one I've encountered claims that the new trilogy is bad solely or even mostly because of Rey, those that have a problem with Rey don't construct the argument you've here constructed.  At all.  And as such, however unreasonable the complaints about Rey may or may not be, your dismissal of them seems to me to be emotional.</blockquote>