ChainsawAsh said:
sans_fi said:
ChainsawAsh, it wouldnt make sense "then perhaps she will" since Leia shouldnt be force sesitive...

Goddammit, I hate this idea. The great thing about the Force in Star Wars was that it felt like anyone could be a Jedi if they had the right amount of dedication, while some people were just "gifted" and already had a great deal of sensitivity to the Force without any training (like Anakin should have, going by Obi-Wan's comments in Star Wars). The idea that your parents had to be "Force-sensitive" for you to have any chance at being a Jedi ... ugh, it just makes me think of midi-chlorians all over again.

I had always thought of it as a (bear with me here) Harry Potter-esque style of special-ability inheritance. It is possible for those with non-Jedi parents to have greater force abilities, just as it is possible for children of Jedi to lack those same abilities. However, it is more likely that if one parent has forece abilities that the children will share them as well. Hence the line "The force runs strong in your family." For this reason I never saw a problem with either school of thought.