darklordoftech said:

The Lucas-Kasdan conversation says that not only do you not need midichlorians to use The Force, you don't even need a master to teach you how to use it! This truly means that anyone can use The Force.

I remember back in the PT heyday when SuperShadow's site and Midi-chlorians were big deals. I remember one of the articles on his website gave the supposed Midi-chlorian counts of all of the main characters, and while I knew all of his "info" was bunk and that Midi-chlorians were a stupid device, it made me consider for the first time that the Force might be a power that could be used by anyone.

I didn't really like that idea then, and I don't really like it now... I feel like it devalues the Jedi if just anyone can be trained to use the Force. Han is clearly an uncanny pilot (I'd put him on the same level as Luke, maybe even higher) and an obvious non-believer in the original Star Wars, but then he meets up with Luke and Obi-Wan and begins to realize that the Force is real, why wouldn't he start to think that maybe his talents are Force-granted and seek training from Luke?

I think that, for the Force to make its impact, it needs people who can use it and people who can't. It loses its uniqueness if any nerd like Greedo could be trained to use it; plus it devalues characters like Han or Boba Fett, who are just as talented as Jedi, and can ostensibly hold their own against them.