But forgive me if I find the arc that Rey, who can do no wrong and obviously needs to be trained, realizes she's the messiah and can do everything herself without anyone else's help to be unsatisfying. I don't really know why I should care about her. She fails Luke's test and goes into the hole, but then that failure has no consequences from that because her failure, in turn, showed Luke's failure. Then she goes up against Snoke confidently after Luke repeatedly tells her she shouldn't and instead of struggling, she completely owns him. Luke faced Vader in Empire after a similar scene and he failed, going off instinct rather than taking all factors into account. Later, he shows extreme uncertainty and conflict within himself when face to face with the Emperor. He has emotion, had reasons for doing what he was doing, and when he decided he would rather die than give into hate we felt as though that was a big achievement for his character especially after the prior failure. Rey goes face-to-face with Snoke and immediately says she'd rather die than give in and goes through that entire sequence easy. Then when Ren asks her to join him, she says no in a fashion that is, once again, really easy. It's apparent she's not joining him as soon as he starts speaking. Rey changes from the beginning of TFA and the end of TLJ, but it's very slight and I can't get invested in her because she does so little wrong and never faces consequences for any of her actions. At the beginning of the film she's a perfect messiah looking for someone to confide in (Han, Luke, Ren, etc.) and by the end of the film she's a perfect messiah who knows she can do anything she wants lol. It just isn't interesting.
