I thought I was being nice enough not to bring up the PT when the discussion was driven primarily with the OT.
Yes, the PT is inherently contradictory.
Yes, you’re making a very good point and I’m not trying to use PT to discount your well thought out “Too much other stuff going on to do that” theory; I’m just saying that by expanding the powers of the Force (as in levitating the X-wing out of the bog) leads to gratuitous stuff, like hurling senate stadium seats and freezing blaster bolts midair.
It quickly descends into a juvenile game of one-up-manship. I’m reminded of a kid I went to grade school with named Ricky. When we were 10, this one very creative kid named Omar drew a cool futuristic tank with a big ion cannon on it. When I praised the tank for being cool, Ricky got jealous and drew a similar tank but with six ion cannons on it and then insisted his was better.