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

Rey, of course, is not just incredibly naturally gifted at the various ill-defined tricks of space magic after an unclear length of training. She is also able to both fly and fix a garbage Corellian space freighter in spite of having been marooned for life on the deserts of Jakku, insistently never leaving the planet's surface. What a Mary Sue, right?

Or maybe she just reminds you of someone else who spent all of their youth grounded on a desert planet only to turn out to be an incredible flying ace when the situation demanded it. Yet there were few criticisms, equivalent to the whining about Rey's myriad abilities, when bullseyeing womp rats in his T-16 was all the qualification that Luke required to be handed the keys to a high-tech rebel fighter.

Given that all three of the different trilogy leads have been preternaturally gifted pilots alongside their unusually high Force powers (or midichlorian levels if you want to go down that path), it's probably fair to say that the two may well be linked anyway. Certainly it's implied that Anakin's latent Jedi abilities, with their attendant superfast reactions and connection to his environment, are what make him such a good pod racer.

It's clear from The Force Awakens that, even though Rey has never taken the Falcon out for an interstellar spin, she's obviously pretty familiar with it and its inner workings.

As a scavenger of space parts working for Unkar Plutt she would obviously have picked up a lot of knowledge both of galactic scrapheap challenge puzzles and of the specific changes that Plutt had made to the Falcon. She knows how to deal with the faulty compressor in the ignition line, after all, because she was there when it was put in.