Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 9 Plot Holes That Almost Ruined The Film

2. Rey Suddenly Learns The Force Without The Guidance Of A Mentor (In Mere Days)

There's an endless debate on the internet surrounding Rey's incredible ability to "learn the Force" in a such a short time span, and countless theories have been proposed which attempt to explain how she manages to do so with such ease. "She already learned the Force as a kid" and "She's the most powerful Jedi ever" are two of the most common theories doing the rounds, but - fundamentally - they do nothing to rescue this aspect of the film from being that of a serious plot hole. At least, based on what we know about Star Wars and the Star Wars universe, Rey's quick grasp of The Force goes against everything that has been established in the canon thus far. Because, ultimately, the Force is something that takes time to develop whether you learned it as a kid or not. Even if it turns out in later Episodes that Rey trained as a Jedi as a child, the Force has always been established as something that must be taught over a long period of time; it's not something that you forget and remember on a whim, or something that can just be tapped into ten or fifteen years after you last used it. Even if Rey was once an incredible padawan, the fact that she would have been "out of practice" for a number of years in Episode VII means that she would be rusty; in The Force Awakens, she manages to use an incredibly proficient Jedi Mind Trick just like that and holds her own in a lightsaber fight. As such, Rey violates the "rules" of the Force as we know them. It has always been that a padawan needs a master; it doesn't make sense that Rey learns it all by herself without any prompts or explanations of abilities from somebody who already understands The Force.