The problem, warb (and others), is there’s some ambiguity and you’re taking that ambiguity and assuming automatically that it must be an inconsistency, whereas you could just as easily explore all the other possible explanations for it. Just because it’s not explained doesn’t mean it’s unexplainable. Movies, and Star Wars especially, are all about the possible, not the impossible. So to go right to the latter is essentially watching it wrong.
But sometimes things do need to be explained. Again if in the next movie Han(not a ghost) suddenly walked into a room, wouldn’t that require an explanation?
What if in a future movie it is found out that sith can appear as force ghosts and kill people, wouldn’t it need to be explained why we haven’t seen that before, why dead Emperor, Maul, and Dooku don’t come back force ghosts can get revenge?
Trying to explain spiritual happenings leads to dumbness. Like Dom says there is a difference between ambiguity and inconsistency. The truth is we know very little about the Star Wars afterlife.
When we are talking about a power that would have made sense to use in the OT and wasn’t it is an inconsistency.
Even accepting your view that Yoda made the lightning, that’s not an inconsistency, just a possible missed opportunity.
oh come on.
That response was positively Frinkesque or Frinky, if you prefer.
But it may be that Force ghosts are limited in where they can show up.
This is never said in the movie.
That is why I said “may.”
It was never said in the movie why the Death Star didn’t just shoot Yavin instead of waiting half an hour to get around it. It was never said why the Stormtroopers didn’t make sure the heroes were dead after they jumped into the trash compacter. In both cases, we can come up with reasonable inferences.