Especially since there's no reason to think Rey even knows who she is
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I mean tbf it's not clear how much most of the galaxy noticed. Like we get a lot of variance between "the Empire is right overhead!" and "we are a peaceful village who probably have had relatively limited outside contact for *centuries*"
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Well there's the old Republic member systems and a lot of semi-independent wildcat settlements like Jakku and then places controlled by other powers, like the Hutts The empire wasn't really the entire galaxy, just "civilization"
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Also, it's pretty well established in TFA and TLJ that Rey's reasonably well-versed in the events of the OT. She knew who Han and Luke were, knew of the Force, knew of the Jedi. It'd be weirder for her to not know who Palpatine and the Sith were.
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It’s likely that one reason the Jedi are less well known is because they were declared enemies of the state. I imagine a lot of documents about the Jedi were destroyed and people alive at the time of the Clone Wars were likely afraid to talk much about the Jedi.
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Anyone who demonstrated pro_Jedi sympathies was probably declared a criminal.
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She's also been reading the "Sacred Jedi Texts," living with the Resistance, and training extensively with Leia. So she wouldn't have heard of the Sith or know who Emperor Palpatine was? I feel like people don't put any thought into these criticisms at all.
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to some extent I blame the advent of exhaustively detailed Wikis cataloging all the ancillary material that fills in every blank space between franchise movies now Some people think not *explicitly explaining everything that happened, how, and when* is a plot hole, and it's not
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