Mr Webber
Master Member
"No! No different! Only different in your mind!" Brushing aside vines, moving around obstacles, and sitting on the log is definitely a departure from the static figure we'd seen Ghost Obi-Wan to be up to that point. It was appropriate to the scene, and it worked, but interaction with the physical is interaction with the physical. I could argue that reaching out through the Force you're now one with to call down the lightning is less problematic than if Yoda had just Force-Lightning'ed the tree directly.
Where's the line, though? Obi-Wan's cloak and lightsaber remained, but the rest of his clothing vanished with him. But cloak and lightsaber are there in his ghostly form, along with the rest. All of Yoda's clothes went with him, necklace and everything. Anakin left behind his body, not just the cybernetics. And I doubt he was wearing those Jedi robes under the leather bodysuit (never mind having hair). Same as Qui-Gon, who, per the films, was apparently the first Jedi to figure out the Force Ghost trick, even though it was apparently a post-mortem discovery. So there's no hard and fast precedent for what stays and what goes.
I think your way overstretching if you think basic interaction to progress a scene is anywhere near summoning and controlling forces of nature.
The line is not taking things established purely as a matter of aesthetic and presentation and twist them in to something they are not as a cheap shortcut.
Jar Jar could bring back the whole gang of force ghosts to wipe out the first order themselves as there`s only about six resistance members alive if you want to stretch it out that much. :lol Wouldnt leave a lot stuff for the almighty characters of Rey and Kylo to do though so I guess that`s out.
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