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Then why was her father a nobody? Did the power levels just skip a generation?
I just wish fans could accept the Force awakened and things are different now. I feel like the new movies tried to bring back the Force as this mysterious power beyond total understanding, and Abrams ironically fell back on midichlorians. “Rey has Palpatine’s high midichlorian count! It’s gotta be at least 20,000 if not more!”
I appreciate your willingness to discuss this Shopping Maul! Don’t get me wrong, I did have fun with the movie still, these are just some of my issues with it. So I’m not criticizing you or your enjoyment, just the story decisions of the movie.
I just assume her father didn’t want to go there. I mean Luke could have lived a life of total Force-ignorance if Ben Kenobi had never come along. Rey was prodded by circumstance (both survival necessities and then the events in TFA) into accessing her powers, and (for me) the crazy magnitude of those powers is explained by her being in the Sith family. I don’t have Midichlorians in my personal lexicon. I’m seeing the Sith and the Emperor as being an unknown quantity - not including EU (which I don’t follow) and bearing in mind that Palps doesn’t get an origin story in the prequels. Having the Sith be mysterious whacko gothic sorcerers actually works for me.
I get what you’re saying about the Force awakening but I’m not really on board with that. It makes the Force seem sentient when I just personally prefer the Force as a substance rather than an entity.