• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The force only works if you believe in it, and you’re alive. And there’s heavily implied to be some mental barriers you have to overcome to get it to work properly.

    Of our heroes in the first movie, we have:

    • old hermit who definitely uses the force
    • naive farm boy who learns to use the force
    • jaded smuggler who doesn’t believe in the force
    • GRAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH
    • robot
    • robot
    • princess who never discusses the force on camera but they don’t rule her using the force out

    And in terms of antagonists:

    • evil wizard who is looked down upon by society for using the force
    • a bunch of beaurocrats who don’t believe in the force
    • weak minded fascist soldiers who don’t believe in the force
    • a bartender who never mentions the force
    • an asshole criminal who never mentions the force
    • jawas

    In this movie, of the characters who display awareness of the fact that the force exists, we see a clear divide between characters who believe in the force and can use it, and characters who don’t believe in the force and don’t try to use it. I suspect there’s a causal relationship somewhere in there.