Shame ain't it, Spaceballs being more spiritual and mystical than star wars. Personally, I remember the real obi-wan's words about him being amazed by how strongly the force was with Anakin, not by how many mutant cells he had in his system. This implies a natural gift to me that is also a hereditary trait more in the sense of a spiritual bonding families have (My spirit is of my parent's spirit etc.) but not limited to being just that. Like harry potter of course has the character hermione whose parents are both muggles. It's magic, it's magical. Look in the EU or fan fiction for a bunch of confusing details about everything.

Sometimes you just don't need to know certain things for the story to work anyway. (we're talking about a world where a giant moonsized space gun is called the Death Star) If we don't need to know it, let it go and let's move on. Hyperdrive leaking? What is it leaking, gas, radiation? Let's just not get into it. What would all movies be like if they stopped for five minutes to explain how every little insignificant thing works before they go forward with the story. Like a car for instance... See now you use gasoline which provides fuel for the ignition in the engine and is in combustion with the engine, allowing us to drive to our destination. Snore... Not the best example but you understand since you're sitting there not knowing a thing about how a podracer engine works because it just isn't worth explaining. Big rocket boost things come out of it and it moves forward. Sense a strong force in some silly little slave boy? good. Moving on. May the Schwartz be with you.

However before the usual "It was perfectly fine with me and I saw nothing wrong with it lucas is my dad." cyber-vomit is spread in the rest of the thread, I only first wonder if you need everything spelled out for you on that level of detail (microscopic) then you must be really pissed about Padme's death. We were left hanging with that one. Not even the force itself knew why the hell she died. That is something that would aid the audiences understanding if it were explained a little more as well as the oh gee wiz guess what, someone came back from the dead to teach us how to do it too, but Lucas was in a rush...

edit: oh and probably the weirdest crime of adding jedi blood tests that I doubt even Lucas himself can pretzel argue his way out of is how Palpatine was never identified by whatever means jedi use to find midi-babies. Oopsie.

By the way my heart is beating, hoping that mel brooks does a spaceballs prequel parody, but I think we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a Pt anyway so that's why he hasn't done it yet. Or is that cartoon I heard about still in development?