We Stand here amidst Anakin's achievments, not yours!

While you have a point that baby Anakin is Gary Stuish, if you read TPM as an ironic play like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, then Anakin just kind of got lucky with the whole blowing up the federation ship. That is, he was in the right place at the right time, and the force used him to advance the plot. That and the Pod Racing scene was setting up that he had in fact trained at piloting some kind of ship. In fact, even Luke had Obi-wan saying that he has become a pretty good pilot, like his father (Anakin). The big difference with Rey is that she’s not set up to be a good pilot, she kinda just gets in the Millenium Falcon and immediately knows how to work everything. I remember watching that scene and thinking that was some bullshit.

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