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averagejoel posted...

EverDownward posted...

My take on it is that prior to prequel trilogy, The Force was seen as sort of like a religion or mythology. It was a measure of faith in the energy that bound people and the universe together. The more you subjected yourself to this faith, the more The Force spoke through you. It was intangible. Then the prequels gave a finite and definitive form to what The Force actually was, and it turned what was seen as something mystical into something biological.

I'm sure someone will contest that, but that was my take on it.

it is why people are upset, but it ignores the "foreshadowing" (not sure if there's a more precise word for this) in Return of the Jedi: Luke and Leia being twins, and Luke saying "The Force is strong in my family"

But he could have said that in reference to both him and his father being Force wielders, both him and Vader believed and devoted themselves to The Force, after all.