10 Things That Annoy You About New Star Wars That Didn't Bother Original Trilogy Fans

The ultimate conclusion to the question begged by The Last Jedi's much-debated title comes when Luke declares in the final act that he will not be the last Jedi, implying that the title of Jedi will be passed to Rey and all those that follow her. "But Rey hasn't had proper Jedi training!" cried angry fanboys not particularly bothered by the fact that Luke was himself essentially largely self-taught.

Just what "proper Jedi training" involves and how long it would take are never entirely clear. All that the Star Wars saga has given us is a trio of heroes whose trainers feel they are beyond training (typically too old) but who turn out to be preternaturally brilliant at space magic nonetheless.

Both Rey's time with Luke on Ahch-To and Luke's with Yoda on Dagobah are told through montage in which it's pretty difficult to tell how much time is passing. Certainly as Rey follows Luke around his fishing and milking routine, the passage of time could just be a single morning or repeated across many days.

In both movies, the only way of figuring out how long the training/mentoring process might have taken is by referring to the other characters' plot. This, however, only serves to muddy matters further.

With the tension in the other half of the plot surrounding the fleeing rebel fleet dictated by a tight time frame of a couple of days before the fuel runs out, it would seem that Rey's time on Ahch-To must be similar.

This has resulted in some criticism of how this gives Luke no time to impart any knowledge nor Rey and Kylo any time for their blossoming psychic relationship. But there is a similar issue with The Empire Strikes Back implying that the presumably short span of a few days taken by the Millennium Falcon to travel from Hoth to Cloud City is all the time that Luke gets to train with Yoda.

In both cases, it's probably best not to assume an exact 1:1 correlation of timeframes in the plot for things to make sense. At least in The Last Jedi, as Rey's scenes happen immediately after The Force Awakens, it is probably fair to say that the Ahch-To sequence actually begins an indeterminate amount of time before the opening bombing raid.