# Where does your ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ stop?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-willing-suspension-of-disbelief-stop/945746 "2021-07-05T14:46:15Z")\
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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> She’s never flown a ship before. … Or like Finn can hold his own in a lightsaber duel with Kylo. Tell ya what. If you have never fenced before…

Not to turn this into another Star Wars thread, but why are you assuming that Rey never piloted a ship, or that Finn never trained in melee weapons? Rey was a tech scavenger raised by a guy who owns a used starship lot, and Finn was impressed into the military as a child and spent his entire life learning how to fight. Those backgrounds are both more than sufficient to explain the skills they show on screen.

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