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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2019-11-26, 10:26

Thinking back to that 30-second clip I posted/discussed yesterday...




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Why is Rey Almighty, The Most Powerful Untrained Force User The Galaxy Has Ever Known™, even wasting her time vainly firing a blaster in that scenario? Didn't the previous movie clearly establish her ability to manipulate multiple heavy objects - dozens and dozens of rocks/boulders - (as well as alarm/frighten Luke himself with her raw, untapped potential for power)? If she could levitate numerous heavy rocks to free her friends from the old Rebel base on Crait, could she not use that same sort of power on the pursuing troopers (once again saving her friends when they need it most)? Maybe stopping/levitating the troopers in their tracks?

Or, if she really wanted to strut her stuff, toss them (and their vehicles) around like rag dolls? Anakin, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon did that quite a bit in the prequels, with those goofy battle droids. So, again, that's established, canonical stuff that just gets downplayed/ignored when it's convenient to the plot ("convenient to the plot" being the potential to sell a few thousand First Order SandMobiles with Mega-Treadz and X-treme Catapult Action!!!).

At the very least, maybe she could rip the (ill-advised) treads/wheels from those sandmobiles, rendering them useless and unable to continue the pursuit (punishment for the First Order for putting treads/wheels on their military hardware in a world where eight movies have shown us that most vehicles float/ride on air).
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