Yes, I will include "the Force is strong in your family" in this hot take. I know it's too late to wind decades of Force calipers and space eugenics back now, but it would have been a lot better if that "energy field that surrounds and binds all living things" had an ebb and flow, came and went, and was more about timing and what's going on where (you know, like an energy field) than "the most specialist special people have more fuckulons than you do, you mundane peasant."
I haven't seen a Star War in some time 
but maybe if something comes along that does space magic in a less calipersy way I'd check it out instead.
Oh well. We'll always have Glup Shitto. 
Any combat-centric franchise will develop power levels, given enough time. People want a tier list, a scouter, a number on a bounty poster, or a midichlorian count.
Tying it to bloodlines is a lazy model, but also gives you loads of popular tropes for free. Glup Shitto Jr will be relevant from appearance 1 due to inherited power levels, and then you don't have to devise a bunch of complex worldbuilding and backstory to show how a 100% new character got the caprice of the fates.
Are there any stories where magic powers aren't inherited? I can think of Frieren and The Magicians, but I think that's it? My LotR knowledge is limited, but I don't recall magic being genetic. Although I don't think many mortals in LotR can even perform magic.
or you could just... have their dad teach them lol you don't even need the weird "runs in the family" stuff to have a heir be a thing
One of the sequel trilogy hinted towards putting away the space calipers with that scene of the random kid force pulling a broom but then the next one made all the named force users part of the same couple of families again
That was the one thing I actually liked from TLJ, and it wasn't yoinked back like so many of Rian Johnson's other "gotchas" (mostly because it happened at the very end of the movie), but then Abrams decided to return to the same old tired shit as he always does.
I didn't know where else to put it because it's about more than the movies; it's the entire franchise and I'm saying decades of lore built up around the Force being "strong in someone" being a big fucking mistake, especially if the intent was some sort of uplifting fantastical presence that anyone could tap into, which seemed to be the original intent.
you could make an argument that being "strong in the force" is actually an emergent trait representative of experiences that generated absurd amounts of emotion and/or "life energy" and this makes sense with Anakin's deeply traumatic past as well. However that would actually be interesting so obviously jorjor lucass couldn't
you could make an argument that being "strong in the force" is actually an emergent trait representative of experiences that generated absurd amounts of emotion and/or "life energy" and this makes sense with Anakin's deeply traumatic past as well.
However that would actually be interesting so obviously jorjor lucass couldn't
