However, the most recent Ahsoka episode has tread on some new territory as it doubles down on a bit of lore that originates from director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a film from the sequel trilogy that has been a subject of contention within the fanbase and one that Johnson has had to defend the more goofy aspects of. While attempting to train Sabine Wren to become a Jedi in Ahsoka episode 3, the titular character reiterates that because the Force exists within and around everyone and everything, anyone can access it given enough training and will.
Star Wars creator George Lucas, who has had some small criticism for showrunner Dave Filoni in the past, fully supports the decision, as he has previously expressed his agreement with this idea. “A lot of people get confused about the Force. They see it as some special thing that you can find and pick up and put it on your head and suddenly, you have the Force. Whereas it’s always been designed so that every [living] being has the Force,” Lucas said. “The amount of Force, which is like talent or intelligence, is different in every person. Some of it is inherited, but it’s no more than a talent. It’s not something you can acquire – it’s something you can learn to use. I have the power to lift that cup off the table using the Force, but I can’t do it unless I have been trained to do it.”
The force is a plot device that writers have used in different ways at different times to push the story forward.
This is not an attack nor a put down, just a description of the narrative reality.
You can see this from the beginning in the original trilogy.
In the first two, the force is mind control and telekinesis and Darth is the pinnacle of force powers. In ROTJ they needed the emperor to be the big bad…so he has to be more powerful than Darth…now the force is also lightening shooting out of his fingers.
And so on.
I’ve always thought it curious that Force users don’t fly. I mean if you can levitate an X-Wing surely you can levitate yourself all over the place. I imagine it’s simply a narrative choice to avoid Star Wars taking on super hero trappings.
The Jedi mind trick was the one that got me.
The original film made it seem that it would basically work on any non-jedi, they would use it everywhere as it would make their job so easy.
“your jedi mind tricks don’t work on me”
Yep, first move, use mind control to advance the plot.
“These are not the droids…”
Then 4th movie, nerf mind control as a way to advance the plot.
“your jedi mind tricks don’t work on me”
If anything, it goes to show that Star Wars has abandoned all pretense of a cohesive narrative in favor of silly incoherent McGuffins. If the story no longer matters, what are we doing here? I’m an adult, I deserve better than someone jangling shiny keys at me to hold my attention. I loved Star Wars, but Star Wars doesn’t love me.
“The force existing all around us” is something that comes from George Lucas himself, idk what this article is complaining about. It’s a far more compelling universe if everyone exists on a spectrum of force sensitivity ranging from Sabine all the way up to Anakin. It like the idea and think it aligns with what George was trying to do with the PT era and showing how the jedi weren’t ways right, didn’t have a monopoly on the force, and that just because you couldn’t leap from buildings and weird a Lightwave didn’t mean you could open yourself to the force. It’s meant to be a somewhat mystical, unknowable mechanic of the Star Wars universe.
