Rey's Force Awakens Pilot Skills Always Perfectly Fit Star Wars Canon
Rey exhibits extraordinary piloting abilities in early Star Wars: The Force Awakens scenes, but these skills aren’t that unreasonable considering the flying prowess of other inexperienced pilots in the Star Wars canon. Flight has always been an exciting feature of the franchise, manifesting both in space and within planetary atmospheres. The ships and vehicles that the Star Wars sequels' characters use to get airborne range from small Landspeeders to hulking Star Destroyers, and to pilot each one requires a certain amount of skill and knowledge.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), and BB-8 dust off the pile of “garbage” that is the Millennium Falcon in an attempt to escape the First Order on Jakku. With Rey in the cockpit, Finn in one of the gunner seats, and BB-8 trying to keep from rolling away, the Falcon springs to life as TIE Fighters chase it down. Surprisingly, Rey precisely flies the Falcon through old scraps on the planet's surface, with her actions appearing nothing short of miraculous considering her lack of piloting experience.
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Yet this isn’t the first time such incredible flying has been executed by a Star Wars character despite very limited piloting experience. Both a young Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) and Luke (Mark Hamill) have previously found themselves in the cockpit of a vessel they had never sat in before going on to accomplish great feats — highlighting a precedent in the Star Wars universe regarding naturally skilled pilots. The Force Awakens novelization by Alan Dean Foster further explains Rey's impressive initial flight, stating that Rey had actually spent some time in an old flight
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