WRONG. Luke fails to believe in himself.
This is why I hate the prequels - all the great themes and subtext of the original movies have become lost to later generations, buried under so much bull****.
They'll never be able to view those movies the way we did as kids. Now it's all meaningless pseudo babble, like a bad Star Trek movie.
Now the force has a "will" and "does stuff"... :facepalm
Oh for ******'s sake, can we PLEASE not go down this road AGAIN?
...I know you like to think of the Force as nothing more then magic...
What about using the force to hit a small thermal exhaust port when the only training you've had is against a training remote on the falcon?
Wrong again.
The force in the OT was spiritual - not magical, not biological (haven't we had this conversation already...?)
The force is the living universe. That's it. It doesn't love you or hate you - it doesn't have thoughts or feelings.
It doesn't do anything. It just is.
See, George Lucas quit smoking pot and eating mushrooms and listening to Ravi Shankar while reading the Tao Te Ching when he got married and had kids.
He forgot what Star Wars was about and then somehow neglected to watch his own movies before sitting down to write the prequels.
The OT force was heavily influenced by eastern religions and philosophies. The PT force is influenced by western religion and pseudo-science.
Now we have all kinds of wacko theories trying reconcile these 2 irreconcilable versions of the force.
Throw the Disney films into the mix, and now the force is Hogwarts magic, too.
I subscribe to the original definition of the force - the one me and my friends understood clearly in the early eighties.
The Yin and Yang force. The Zen Buddhist force. The believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything force.
By your rules I can't do anything, and neither can you, because we don't have midiclorians. We'll never be jedi.
When I was a kid, anyone could be a jedi. It inspired us to try harder, to dream bigger.
That was George's biggest misstep, IMO: taking the force away from all of us and depositing it with a "chosen" few.
Why do you people feed this guy?
Why do you people feed this guy?
Just throwing this out there, but there is zero reference(in the films) to having to train to use the Force. There's Jedi training, but not Force training. In fact, I would argue that a Force-sensitive doesn't use the Force as much as the Force uses them.
Why are we still debating this?. He will never change his mind. We will never change ours. What's the point?
Well the Republic sure wasted a ton of money on that huge Jedi Temple! Somebody should tell them they don't need training!
Some Force sensitives can use the Force without realizing it, like Anakin and podracing, but it requires training to hone it and learn to use it. If Anakin Skywalker, potentially the most powerful Force user ever, couldn't just figure it out himself, then I'd say that's canon that you require training.
That was George's biggest misstep, IMO: taking the force away from all of us and depositing it with a "chosen" few.
This has been raised earlier and shot down like a womp rat...
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters."
That was a reference to the size of the target, not the ability to "curve the bullet". I'm pretty certain that the conditions under which he was shooting animals on Tatooine were wildly different than than those in the trench run.
How many of those womp rats had the imperial navy flying interference for them?Yes. He was hitting moving targets not stationary.
Yes. He was hitting moving targets not stationary.