Rey was the hero of the new Star Wars sequel trilogy, and unfortunately for Daisy Ridley, multiple directors and poor management by Disney kind of ruined the experience for her. She’s not a perfect actress, sure—but the ultimate failures of the sequel trilogy are in no way her fault.

That said, her character being so similar to Luke at the beginning of the trilogy felt a little too easy. They might as well have made that sand planet Tatooine—because that’s exactly what it felt like.

Her cringiest moments actually come from The Rise of Skywalker, ironically the most well-received of the sequels by general audiences. She doesn’t really get any real Force training in the movie, yet still manages to get incredibly far. Even Luke Skywalker got a mini training session from Obi-Wan on the Millennium Falcon.

Disney-era Star Wars basically confirmed that lightsaber battles are just “laser sword” duels, and Force powers have little to no influence on the outcome—which is kind of stupid.

Ironically, I liked her experience in The Last Jedi the most, even though it’s the most controversial film of the trilogy.

The Rise of Skywalker kind of ruins everything. For one, Rey falls in love with Kylo Ren—which makes no sense. She doesn’t qualify for Stockholm Syndrome, and this dude literally tried to murder her multiple times.

And her being revealed as Palpatine’s secret granddaughter may have sounded cool to J.J. Abrams, but it was honestly really stupid. Her final battle with him could have been way better.

After defeating Palpatine, she presumably goes on to start her own Jedi school. But for some reason, she takes the last name Skywalker instead of Palpatine. Like, we all know your real last name is Palpatine, Rey—LOL.