Comment Re:Anyone? (Score 1) 56
An air speeder specifically used by the alliance to train pilots because it's fligth controls are similiar to an x-wing. And you can't compare space flight like we know it to star wars. Every ship there handles pretty like an atmospheric craft even while in flight. So that is a universe thing. And now that you mention it: Luke's favourite past time was actually cannyon running with a T16. While doing this he damaged it, which is the cause for it sitting in the bay behind the droid repair room in the movie and also the cause for him using the land speeder to go search for R2D2. It actually fits very nice. Of course he has talents that are somewhat unlikely for a backwater water farmer, however they at least build a plausible backstory for why he has those. Rey is basically a hobo rummaging through plane wreckages and then goes of flying a fighter plane. They underlying problem I suppose is that she had to be better in everything than Luke, in the writers mind. Her childhood must be worse than his with no loved ones, no money, no friends and she still must be better in everything than anyone (including Luke) else. Because she is the main character of the new movies and must surpass the old. That is also why Luke is now an old coward and not the idealistic Jedi who walked into his worst enemies hands because he felt the shred of light in his father's thoughts. Unwilling to kill a man who crippled him, destroyed his real and his foster family just because he believed. Now he fears a child so much that he ponders killing him and when that goes wrong he hides and sulks.
I still can't forgive them for having him throw his father's lightsaber away for a fucking slapstick joke. That was one of the worst things for me in the new movies.