If your world-view is built around the notion of an elite quasi-religious semi-mystical order and your self-imagined membership in it, I can see why you'd be upset that a cast-off nobody on a backwater planet could be as powerful as ... excuse me, MORE powerful than your heritage-infused leader. Y'know what? Get over it.
Yeah, that was my single biggest takeaway. In the confrontation between Rey and Kylo, I had a strong sense that, up until this moment, she really thought she was on the classic Hero's Journey with all its trappings, including The Hero Is Secretly The Child of The King. And Kylo clearly believes that that is absolutely essential -- he is trying to say, "You're obviously *not* the hero of this story, I am".
It's a powerful moment: from the viewer's perspective (we really are never in any doubt about who the stronger Force-wielder is), it quietly but firmly destroys the myth of the Skywalker bloodline, that has been building through the entire series so far, and proves Luke's point from earlier in the film.
I confess some curiosity about what George Lucas' reaction to that was...
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Yeah, that was my single biggest takeaway. In the confrontation between Rey and Kylo, I had a strong sense that, up until this moment, she really thought she was on the classic Hero's Journey with all its trappings, including The Hero Is Secretly The Child of The King. And Kylo clearly believes that that is absolutely essential -- he is trying to say, "You're obviously *not* the hero of this story, I am".
It's a powerful moment: from the viewer's perspective (we really are never in any doubt about who the stronger Force-wielder is), it quietly but firmly destroys the myth of the Skywalker bloodline, that has been building through the entire series so far, and proves Luke's point from earlier in the film.
I confess some curiosity about what George Lucas' reaction to that was...