9 hours ago, Norell said:That's awfully convenient. I wonder why Jedi spent a lifetime with training and the Sith spent millienia in collecting knowledge when all they would have to do is to tap each other's mind. Seriously, that's the best they came up with?!
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It's awfully convenient that you seem to ignore the fact that jedi and sith have different strengths and weaknesses. They manifest their powers in various ways. Battle meditation, psychometry, deadly sight, telepathy, agility, etc. Some Jedi and Sith have extremely unique abilities that just aren't seen in others, or are extremely rare.
Jedi and Sith tap into the force and use it to manifest powers. Through training, they can grow their ability, but just like in real life, different people have different natural abilities, differences in their maximum potential, etc.
Michael Phelps is an amazing swimmer. But no amount of training would have turned him into an Olympic gymnast. Try taking Montana, Rice, Elway, Bradey, tossing them in a pool and training them like Phelps. None of them will ever come close to his ability to swim.
Kylo clearly has a natural ability to freeze, stop, and control matter to a greater degree than we've ever seen before. His training is not complete. He is not a Sith master. Yet he can freeze blaster bolts in mid air. He can overcome another's ability to move in the slightest. He also seems to have a natural ability to probe minds. In both these cases, his natural ability with only moderate training is greater than anything we've seen used before.
Rey knows about the Jedi. She's dreamed about them for years. She knows the stories, she's heard of their abilities, she's likely spent many hours of her childhood pretending to be a Jedi. Her connection to the force gave her impressive combat abilities that she's been using all her life. She's fought with a bo staff for years, and likely dreamed about using lightsabers as a kid. Fighting with some sort of competance with a lightsaber against an injured, weakened, and not fully trained opponent is not outside the realm of possibility. Beyond that, Kylo is showing a great ability to probe one's mind. To take secrets from them, see what they saw, know what they knew, etc. Why is it suddenly hard to believe that Rey couldn't do the same thing to some degree. She knew about the force, knew about the Jedi, knew about what kind of powers they have and use. She had a natural connection to the force, and was combat trained through the school of hard knocks on Jakku. Kylo tries to probe her mind and her natural ability to resist coupled with her ability to reverse the process and glean some sort of knowledge allowing her to further awaken her powers is not really much of a stretch here. If he can rip images from their memory so he can clearly see what they saw, why couldn't she pick up some basic saber skills the same way?
