Esta resposta tem duas partes:
- Análise da luta entre Rey / Kylo Ren
- Informação de JJ Abrams sobre a Força
Não, provavelmente não podemos dizer que Rey é mais strong com a Força do que Yoda, Palpatine, Anakin etc. O que se segue é o que sabemos.
Diz-se no The Force Awakens que Rey é particularmente dotado com a Força e é strongmente sugerido que ela é parente de Luke, Leia e Kylo Ren de alguma forma, ou em outras palavras, que ela é neta de Anakin Skywalker.
Para resolver a questão de sua batalha com Kylo Ren, não temos nenhuma indicação de que ela foi ou não treinada na Força, pelo menos até certo ponto. Ela pode ter sido treinada um pouco. Além disso, Kylo Ren estava sendo "dilacerado" pelos puxões opostos do lado da luz e do lado escuro. (Veja a cena em que ele fala com o capacete, e as palavras para Han antes de matá-lo, e a faixa atribuída a essa cena na trilha sonora oficial intitulada "Torn Apart", e várias outras fontes.) Em meio a esse emocional pessoal batalha, ele matou seu pai e o resultado não foi o que ele esperava. Da novelização para o filme, ênfase adicionada:
Stunned by his own actions, Kyo Ren fell to his knees. Following
through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him
believed. Instead, he found himself weakened. He did not hear the roar
of the enraged Wookiee above, but he did feel the sting of the shot
from the bowcaster as it slammed into his side, knocking him back on
the walkway.
...
Amid the rising bedlam and confusion, Kylo Ren struggled to stand. As
he did, so his gaze turned upward.
Acrescente a isso os vários ferimentos físicos sofridos antes de lutar contra Rey (Bowieter de Chewie e conexões com o sabre de luz de Finn) e então talvez pudéssemos nos surpreender não pelo seu sucesso, mas por como ela não era ainda mais dominante.
No entanto, a questão pode ser bem tratada com algumas entrevistas com JJ Abrams.
Em várias entrevistas e sessões de perguntas e respostas, JJ Abrams disse que não haveria menção de midi-chlorians em The Force Awakens . 1
Em um ponto, JJ Abrams foi convidado para uma resposta em profundidade e ele deu mais explicações sobre seu ponto de vista, ênfase adicionada:
"I will just say this: I would never presume to question anything
George Lucas says is canon in Star Wars. And our job was not to negate
or undo. A lot of people who are critics of our Star Trek, and I
respect all of them, said we destroyed what they loved and negated
everything. And we worked hard to clarify that we are not saying that
our Star Trek over-rides a thing of the original Star Trek — it was a
parallel timeline. I never wanted to negate canon that fans held so
dear. And because I love Star Wars and have for too many years… … And
having said all that and meaning it — I don’t want to presume
over-write or change what George says the rules are.
I’m not someone who quite understands the science of the Force. To me
Star Wars was never about science fiction — it was a spiritual story.
And it was more of a fairytale in that regard. For me when I heard
Obi-Wan say that the Force surrounds us and binds us all together,
there was no judgement about who you were. This was something that we
could all access. Being strong with the force didn’t mean something
scientific, it meant something spiritual. It meant someone who could
believe, someone who could reach down to the depths of your feelings
and follow this primal energy that was flowing through all of us. I
mean, thats what was said in that first film!
And there I am sitting in the theater at almost 11 years old and that
was a powerful notion. And I think this is what your point was, we
would like to believe that when shit gets serious, that you could
harness that Force I was told surrounds not just some of us but every
living thing. And so, I really feel like the assumption that any
character needs to have inherited a certain number of midi-chlorians
or needs to be part of a bloodline, it’s not that I don’t believe that
as part of the canon, I’m just saying that at 11 years old, that
wasn’t where my heart was. And so I respect and adhere to the canon
but I also say that the Force has always seemed to me to be more
inclusive and stronger than that."2
1 fonte cinemablend.com descrevendo algumas coisas midi-chlorian e citando uma entrevista da MTV
2 fonte do slashfilm.com com entrevista e pergunta sobre se e qual personagem pode ser não-Skywalker e usar a Força extensivamente nesta trilogia