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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7563883" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>I think it's totally legitimate to say "Rey's parents are not important in the grand scheme of thigns". But the thing is, they were definitely important to Rey. And TLJ's "answer" to what her parents are is not really meaningful or useful to the story. She still want to know who her parents where and why they left her. And I am not convinced a Vader-wannabe's word would satisfy that desire to know. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the whole discussion about "training" and "to good out of the gate" really misses what the important thing is: We see Luke or Anakin struggle, lose and fail in the movies. They are good, talented, gifted and mythical heroes, but they must still fight and can fail, and then pick themselves up.</p><p></p><p>The thing that realy seems to be missing there is the "struggle" part with Rey. There might be perfectly good reasons why she could fight well, fly well, and beat an injured Kylo Ren. But the excitement and the identification with characters become usually more strong when you see them fail first, and then pick themselves up. That's probably also a reason why ESB is now so popular, because it ends with Luke failure to beat Vader and him having to deal knowing his father is the vilain he hated all this time - and we know he'll pick himself up in RotJ. (And he doesn't just fail the fight with Vader, his training is not really going so great at first.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 7563883, member: 710"] I think it's totally legitimate to say "Rey's parents are not important in the grand scheme of thigns". But the thing is, they were definitely important to Rey. And TLJ's "answer" to what her parents are is not really meaningful or useful to the story. She still want to know who her parents where and why they left her. And I am not convinced a Vader-wannabe's word would satisfy that desire to know. I think the whole discussion about "training" and "to good out of the gate" really misses what the important thing is: We see Luke or Anakin struggle, lose and fail in the movies. They are good, talented, gifted and mythical heroes, but they must still fight and can fail, and then pick themselves up. The thing that realy seems to be missing there is the "struggle" part with Rey. There might be perfectly good reasons why she could fight well, fly well, and beat an injured Kylo Ren. But the excitement and the identification with characters become usually more strong when you see them fail first, and then pick themselves up. That's probably also a reason why ESB is now so popular, because it ends with Luke failure to beat Vader and him having to deal knowing his father is the vilain he hated all this time - and we know he'll pick himself up in RotJ. (And he doesn't just fail the fight with Vader, his training is not really going so great at first.) [/QUOTE]
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