Luke and Rey return to the Resistance base to continue her training. One of the exercises that Luke has her doing is running the flight simulators blind with her blast-shield down, to get her to reach out with the Force and not rely on her senses.
Rey is doing pretty well- she can last almost a whole minute against the simulated TIE-fighters. The pilots of course have been keeping an eye on her progress and cheering her on, and for shits and giggles someone bets Poe that he can't do better flying blind.
Poe is Force-sensitive as a brick on the ground, so Luke hasn't noticed anything from him, but as soon as he straps into the sim cockpit it's like flicking a switch, and Poe lights up like a super saiyan (figuratively). He clears the sim with a perfect score, and Luke is like, "We need to talk..."
+ Poe is only interested in training if it will help him be a better pilot. He's not interested in being a Jedi. Luke can't even handle this. ++ Luke explains that Jedi are all about not forming attachments or feeling emotions, and Poe flatly refuses to have a bar of it. +++ Finn has a similar revelation on the shooting range, and Rey and Poe and Finn are all happily Force-sensitive and bonding, while Luke is having a meltdown at Leia, like, where did you even find these kids?
Finn/Poe(/Rey), gen: Force-sensitive Poe
Rey is doing pretty well- she can last almost a whole minute against the simulated TIE-fighters. The pilots of course have been keeping an eye on her progress and cheering her on, and for shits and giggles someone bets Poe that he can't do better flying blind.
Poe is Force-sensitive as a brick on the ground, so Luke hasn't noticed anything from him, but as soon as he straps into the sim cockpit it's like flicking a switch, and Poe lights up like a super saiyan (figuratively). He clears the sim with a perfect score, and Luke is like, "We need to talk..."
+ Poe is only interested in training if it will help him be a better pilot. He's not interested in being a Jedi. Luke can't even handle this.
++ Luke explains that Jedi are all about not forming attachments or feeling emotions, and Poe flatly refuses to have a bar of it.
+++ Finn has a similar revelation on the shooting range, and Rey and Poe and Finn are all happily Force-sensitive and bonding, while Luke is having a meltdown at Leia, like, where did you even find these kids?