Re: Star Wars Episode VII
I always saw “The Force” as this spectrum of “universal living energy” that is supposed to be completely neutral, but it’s the emotional conduit used by the nature of its supplicant that taints its range, which then helps to strengthen certain biological and behavioural reflexes and traits within that individual.
Using the same mental impulses each time strengthens that “force performance muscle” so in the end it comes to wholly dominate and limit those responses’ set within an individuals psyche.
So Sith use anger and adrenaline to draw excessive strength and aggression quicker from the “darker” end, and fight reflexively but with intense ferocity. The Jedi use training and observation to help pace and think their way through combat.
I always saw it like the difference between a berserker and a trained soldier. A berserker becomes a danger to everyone around him because he simply is running on madness, but a trained soldier chooses his way of fighting for each situation and controls it.
The midichlorians were a rather weaker attempt to explain why some people could tap into it and others couldn’t ,based on real cell biology ie actual mitochondria (go look them up on Wikipedia for an explanation).
Those with more midies in them were able to access this “lifeforce” energy, whilst others that didn’t ,couldn’t. But as they also generate higher concentration of the Force internally than other living things , to become powerful with it and attract more of it from the naturally occurring background ,they had to be taught how to access it properly otherwise its just remains an unused potential.
Which is why some people are just never sensed by others (even their Daddy Darths),even if they are “strong with the force” and why its hereditary and runs more strongly in certain families. Once you understand its there though and can be reached by “willing it”, it becomes this reinforcement loop, the more you draw on it, the more it pours through, until eventually the mind and body overtaxes itself, which is why everyone, even Yoda gets tired.
But it’s the actual choice of that mental pathway that the Force users make that determines the difference between the “light and the dark” sides. Anyway thats how I've always tried to rationalise it.
I would be annoyed to see somebody “die” early to give the story for SW VII motivation, though I’ve got to admit JJ does like to do this in his films, particularly with the female characters.
They are faced with the reverse situation of the Marvel franchise in that they are starting off with the tent pole “Avengers” film first and then presumably introducing the standalones as “single character” pieces later. Whilst with Marvel it was all built up ,very successfully , the other way around.
Killing Luke would be an act of madness. Luke Skywalker, even in middle age would have plenty of adventures left in him as THE JEDI MASTER even outside of the next new trilogy arc and Mark H is a great actor , with a few good years ahead of him I hope . The original trilogy was his story and to waste him like that would be beyond comprehension, given just how pivitol he is to the Jedi future.
I could see him like Nick Fury, bringing stability and a connection through from the OT to the newer key characters and storylines in the new series, a constant presence that links all the other films together. I can’t see that Mark H would object to that amount of work over the next ten years . There is literally no other character that could do it, and it would please us older fan boys to keep Luke in there whilst also allowing the franchise to mature with a key figure “directing“ the storylines progress over a dozen or so films.
Leia, well ,again it would be a waste of Carrie to kill her. We don’t really know how she has matured into her “force powers” and she might yet surprise us. You could do a lot with her character with a bit of thought.
I’d go for Han, arguably the least essential person to the overall future storyline structure plus Harrison is far older than the others, he’s probably also got the next IndiannaJones hanging around as well.
If wereally want more of Han go back a few decades to the OT and use Benedict Cumberbatch(they looked like father and son on Graham Norton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Og2CzpAFg anyway) to play him running around in the bad old days of the Empire. Or get that Boba Fett film done, or upgrade him into the next trilogy, by getting his “mask” (helmet) passed on like the Dread Pirate Roberts or Batman. The character lives, it doesn’t matter “who” it is beneath the mask. I could see a sweet version of that film where an older Boba retires and hands on the "Dented Helmet".
here is my point of view; everything has an opposite. You cannot know hot without cold, happy without sad, wet without dry... Even color and numbers have opposites so good Jedi and bad Jedi (Sith) would have to exist. I like the idea that out of balance was just as much too many arrogant Jedi in control for so long but also that one bad Sith was in control of all destiny... Either way StAr Wars is and will always include Jedi and Sith.
