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 how-much-could-it-cost 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. live-slug-reaction

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    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      12 days ago

      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.

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        11 days ago

        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

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 days ago

          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.

          dean-smile

          However that would actually be interesting so obviously jorjor lucass couldn't

          dean-frown