Rey is a mess

This is just it - it's a 'feigned' journey, a fake attempt at making Rey be both simultaneously down on her luck and struggling to get by whilst also being amazing at everything. Maybe that's why some people seem to like Rey so much? She ticks both the 'you're ordinary but you can be amazing if you try' and the 'you're born for greatness' boxes simultaneously. Which of course is nonsensical but I guess some people like having two mutually exclusive wish fulfilment fantasies on screen.

Without a doubt Kathleen Kennedy had a major hand in the creation of MaRey Sue but Jar Jar was an ever willing partner in this. Not to mention Rey's bland Mary Sue characterization is only one of the problems with the film.

Finn led her by the hand several times in TFA and she had to tell him, more than once, to stop doing it.

You probably repressed the memory, and understandably so. No one should should be expected to bear witness to that kind of suffering. Frankly, I'm amazed it got past the MPAA with a PG-13 rating.

guys, don't be unfair please, she got a scratch in the Guards fight and she even cried ouch.

A Mary Sue hunt!

Glad you think so Heisenberg.

And this is just it - I wouldn't even say it's a bad story I'd say it isn't even a story anymore. The characters and plots of star wars are now not being written, they're being forced to be certain ways due to board room discussions and politics.

Rey is a gender swapped Luke only they clearly felt they couldn't have Rey fail the way Luke does so they simply made her brilliant at everything. This then created the problem of explaining how she is so incredible and JJ 'solved' this by hinting that their might be some explanation to it due to her parentage and past. RJ then decides that as everybody is now expecting an explanation he'll pull the old switcheroo so as to have a twist for a twists sake. The result is a total mess of a character that doesn't make any kind of sense and guts the story of all drama and purpose.

Poe was going to be a one note 'hot shot hero that dies early on' trope but as they liked the actor they decided to write him back in - with no explanation, or any attempt to flesh out his character. Rian at least tries to give him more depth in TLJ but does so in such a clumsy fashion it just alienates the viewer.

Fin was the only character that had any potential but for some reason they decided to completely abandon all that potential (a character trained to kill from birth, someone who has only known the first order, someone who decides he needs to kill his former brothers in arms) to turn him into some kind of comedy sub Martin Lawrence esque borderline racist caricature. And I hate to say it but the only explanation I can think of is that as they had cast a black man they decided he needed to be 'more black' so instead of a trained killer we get "Droid please".

Everything about the new Star Wars is about ticking certain boxes (for bad reasons) and *nobody* in the whole goddam shit show seems to be concerned with how to actually tell a good story.