Film Theory: Star Wars, Why don't Force Ghosts do EVERYTHING?

so I think we can all agree that the rise of Skywalker was a perfect movie, well, almost perfect, there was one small detail that prevented it from being the masterpiece we all expected, Ray Ho Skywalker, uh, no, what Another thing would be her last name Organa because she trained with Leia and had a special connection with her. Come on, the obvious answer is to name herself after the grumpy green milk guy who ignored her for a week and then disappeared. The wayfinder is there. What is the problem? A dagger pointed at a very specific piece of debris just floating there on a turbulent ocean planet it's almost like you don't understand how space erosion works you need a bit of a bigger brain buddy okay yeah maybe Renlo's kiss It was a small mistake, they probably should have kissed a little.

No longer the only moment that spoiled what would otherwise be a cinematic masterstroke was that this Jedi's weapon deserves more respect, yeah that's the one I can't even keep up the façade of, it's the only thing this movie did wrong. The

force

ghosts

are suddenly too powerful and if they're capable of lifting ships and trapping lightsabers, then why aren't they doing something else in these movies? Why aren't they the ones fighting the clone emperor's skin suit on the planet Eczema? It's a problem that cinemasins screams, but you better see an army of jedi

ghosts

coming to fight the emperor after this, it's a problem that how it should have ended screams, you can use the

force

and hold the lightsaber after that you're dead, yeah, hell, that's what they list. like it should be over, look what I can do now, I don't know why everyone was so shocked by this revelation, true fans know that force ghosts can do anything, just play lego

star

wars

scrubs, but all jokes aside from the first indication that In the series we see that force ghosts can actually interact with the physical world in the original trilogy, in exchange, jedi obi-wan appears as a force ghost just after Yoda's death and as he feels his way to reconfigure the series, why not?

Won't you tell me that what I told you was true from a certain point of view? Obi-wan removes some vines from his path making physical contact with the world around him. Production error or critical story detail. I think we all know what it really is. and i think we all know what i'm going to pretend it is, anyway, i'll let darth pad be the best

star

wars

apologist of all time because despite all the complaints leveled against this new movie and i think there are making a lot of valid complaints at the expense of Skywalker's rise.

I don't think shore power is valid. You have to dig very deep, very deep, but there seems to be a reason why the force ghosts can't help. these kinds of situations, so like king, it's time for me to balance the force, she did it, you know, killing all the evil guys, leaving herself as the only user of the good force aka as balanced, perfectly balanced, all this should be me in the other. By the way, I'll do this by trying to invalidate one small detail in a sea of ​​criticism using evidence that I'm sure no one who worked on these

film

s intended to eliminate.

The dark side of the force is a path to many abilities that some consider unnatural hello internet, welcome to movie

theory

where today we did it, we got a star wars

theory

, a certain type of king is a palpatine, just as I predicted, It sure required the series to be dubbed. backwards and practically back into oblivion, but you know, I'll take a point in the win column any day. I mean, we're talking about the creative team that thought it would be a good idea to have the Palpatine ad, I'm still alive. in fifteen days, so you know what to expect at this point.

Fun fact: That brilliant marketing decision now opens the door for Star Wars and Marvel to crossover, as Thanos and the crew also spent some time hunting for Infinity Stones in Fortnite, so the connected universe is confirmed, but seriously. Why was everyone so surprised by that reveal at the top of Rise of Skywalker, as long as you ignore the entirety of the Last Jedi, play Fortnite with the kids, and read the canon book series associated with the new

film

trilogy? Palpatine's return made a lot of sense anyway, clearly, I'm just trolling, I think whether you liked it or not, we can all agree that Rise of Skywalker was filled with a lot of strange storytelling decisions, many of them and, as you may or may not know, theorycrafting is best when you can.

Try to fill in the logical holes left by sloppy storytelling or inconsistent world-building and at this point the Star Wars universe is holier than Swiss cheese, but today I wanted to focus on a specific topic: the force ghosts and what opiates they are or at least what Opie, at this point it seems the franchise we've seen him catch lightsabers, throw lightning bolts, give free therapy sessions, beat people with ghost canes and pull spaceships out of water, appear in The planets where they die, appear on the planets where they don't. They don't die, sometimes they don't even appear and they just act as voices, I mean they really can do it all.

Obi-wan wasn't kidding when he said that if you take me down I will become more powerful than you can imagine, literally. like he's no more powerful than the actual living force users that walk the universe, so if everyone is so worried about the rise of the dark side or the return of the evil emperor or whatever, then why would you send Anyone alive to do the job? when you can send ghost dad there, well, I think there's a very real in-universe explanation and no, it doesn't have to do with the living force and the cosmic force and dead Jedi who won't or can't. interfering with those in the world of the living, we'll talk about all of those things briefly, but it all seems like a cop-out and, honestly, I think there's a more obvious and more practical reason for this that doesn't require extensive knowledge of the universe of legends. or the animated spin-offs to understand and which, my friends, is our theory today, the first thing I had to do was research the history of force ghosts in Star Wars, although there have been a good number of non-canonical ones. force ghosts in legends or video game universes the main canon films claim that qui-gon jinn invented the technique after his death or at least was the first to discover it in his own time an old friend has learned the path to immortality in In reality, we learn in the Clone Wars that Qui-gon began learning this technique through the teachings of forced priestesses only to be called upon to assist in the trade negotiations taking place on Naboo, aka the beginning of the menace. ghost, and that his training is interrupted since at the end of that mission, he dies at the hands of Darth Maul, as a result, he never truly completed his training in life, which is why his body does not disappear at the time of his death .

Watch as they burn Qui-gon's body in a phantom menace. While Obi-Wan and Yoda are simply at peace when they die, show yourself, can you? I can't, my training was incomplete as a result, during the rest of the Star Wars media, Qui-gon can only appear as a force ghost in places that are force nexuses super strong epicenters of force energy, so Which is the long answer to why Qui-gon never appears as a force ghost anywhere else in the series. The short answer is that Liam Neeson was probably too expensive for the cameo after Qui-Gon was discovered. Of the technique, the most powerful users of the light force try to learn it themselves.

Yoda told me that he should learn from you, that you show me how to manifest my afterlife, who then passes it on to obi-wan in your solitude on tatooine training. for you, obi-wan then spent years studying the technique in isolation in the deserts of tatooine anakin skywalker, meanwhile he just makes a last minute conversion on his deathbed and becomes a ghost too. He must have made obi-wan and yoda feel really stupid then. Of course there's Luke who sacrifices himself in Last Jedi and not only gains Force Ghost abilities but also the hairstyle of a 70s rock band, of course you have Force Ghost Tupac and finally Leia who becomes the Force Ghost finale of the series until the next inevitable in At this point, the force ghost plane is far from the special technique that only the highest level of Jedi achieved.

Now it's like the monument to cameos past and present, but with so many forest ghosts floating around, why aren't they doing anything official? the explanations have been vague on this, the best we have is the book from a certain point of view where we hear what it's like to actually be a force ghost from qui-gon jinn's perspective, basically the person's consciousness goes from the living force to the cosmic force where they suddenly transcend all time and space, they are eternal and in order to manifest again as a ghost in the physical realm they have to choose, for lack of a better term, to reassemble themselves in a time and place specifics, the process is described as being a little painful and that's all we get.

It has been speculated that since they are eternal beings who can see the past and a bit of the future, they cannot interfere with the actions of the living, but that is not true. Saying that causing lightning to burn down an ancient Jedi temple is interfering just a little bit, or lifting a ship out of the ocean so the hero can fly to the Sith planet, or encouraging a young rebel to aim his missiles at the very obvious weak point. All of these examples They are absolutely altering the course of events, sometimes in very physical ways, so what does it matter here?

What are the forces that ghosts can and cannot do well? Here is my theory. I think the answer is deeply tied to what obi-wan was trying to tell luke as he left dagobah the number one lesson in real estate location location location the force canonically is stronger in some places than others even on dagobah a planet with so much force activity that emperor palpatine could not sense yoda's presence yoda can point out a cave that has a stronger force than other areas of the planet with the dark side of the force. This tells us that one, strength depends on location and two, the light and dark sides do not share the same strength sensitivity.

We see this. imbalance unfolds in the emperor's throne room in exchange for the jedi, the emperor and vader, both strong masters of the dark side, have little to no problem using their most powerful force abilities, from lightning storms to vader's ability to use the force to read Luke's mind, your thoughts betray you. your feelings for them are strong meanwhile Luke is struggling so much in this interaction that he swings his lightsaber like this, even his only use of the force in this battle when he grabs his lightsaber from the emperor's chair was done in anger , like Luke was in on this.

At this point I had to channel the dark side in order to access the force. In fact, I'm going to go even further than simply suggesting that location is

everything

and tie this into my ongoing dissection of Star Wars science and say that the midichlorians are The Blame, I know we fans like to ignore the midichlorians because, well, they suck, but there's some really good reasoning behind the strength of midichlorians and their relationship to force ghosts, as I concluded in a previous theory. Midichlorians are like overhyped and overhyped mitochondria that The midichlorians evolved in the Star Wars galaxy are, as qui-gon said, a microscopic life form that resides within all living cells.

Without midichlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the force, meaning that more life leads to more midichlorians and more midichlorians lead to greater force sensitivity for beings that are made entirely of force like a ghost. of strength this difference would be enormous qui-gon says exactly this in the clone wars all the energy of the living force of all things that have ever lived is fed by the cosmic force that unites

everything

and communicates with us through the midichlorians , because of this, I can talk to you now, as planets with more life should naturally produce more powerful force phantoms with more abilities and, conversely, the further you get from the abundance of life, the weaker those force phantoms will be. strength and his abilities and you wouldn't know it, but that's exactly what we see in these movies.

Planets like Dagobah, a massive swamp, and Akh2, Luke's hideout in the new trilogy, are teeming with life, we're told. that these are epicenters of force activity and, true to form, we see force ghosts in each of those places capable of being physically present. ghost yoda hits lukeon the head with his ghost staff, he summons a bolt of force to burn a tree. Ghost Luke catches a lightsaber and lifts a spaceship on Dagobah Ghost Obi-Wan can move the vines out of his way while he goes to talk to Luke. Now he looks at the places where ghosts cannot be physically present in this series when Obi-Wan says that he can't stop Luke from facing Darth Vader in the original trilogy.

Vader was on a floating metal platform floating above a gas giant planet. Aside from the inhabitants of the mining towns, the planet was basically lifeless, there weren't many midi-chlorians there and as such, no. Enough energy for a phantom of strength to physically manifest into new hope. Luke is flying in a spaceship on the surface of the Death Star. There is no life there and as such, Obi-Wan can only communicate as a rising voice of Skywalker, the Sith. The planet Exigle appears to be made almost entirely of barren rock. This guy is the emperor. He has the ability to go anywhere, such as his beautiful home planet, Naboo, or Kanto, the casino planet, but instead, he tends to hang out in large, even empty throne rooms. away from his own guards, he hasn't risked one of these force ghosts having the chance to appear out of the blue sky to teleport with a lightsaber and stab him, but for me the most telling appearance is in Although it's easy to forget , but in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke actually sees Obi-Wan as a force ghost and presents us with an interesting middle ground for these types of apparitions.

He's not completely devoid of life like Exigal or Bespin, but he's also not bursting with life like Dagobah or Octu, he's a happy medium with a medium amount of midi-chlorians and true to form, Obi-Wan's force ghost right now. It is also in the middle, it is more transparent, it is less formed despite the snow blowing in the air and it is on the ground. His phantom force doesn't physically interact with any of that. It's a lot like a radio signal with weak reception, but not as strong as if you were in a better area. It's exactly what you'd expect to happen if the amount of life or amount of midichlorians were the battery powering these types of ghost apparitions, and for further proof, compare that Obi-wan apparition at the top of the movie with what happens later in that exact same movie. dagobah here is fully fleshed out, meaning this wasn't just a technical limitation or a creative choice for this film, so the force ghosts and their powers in this new trilogy aren't so much a plot hole. but a very poor Mechanic explained that you really need to read between the lines to make sense of it, oh, and that you also have to cherry-pick your evidence, I guess, because there's a plot hole that even I can't explain why Yoda and Obi don't. they made. -I want to do something to Vader while he was on Endor.

We know for certain that Endor is teeming with enough life to support ghosts of stable strength. Heck, we see three of them hanging out at the Ewok celebration that closes Return of the Jedi. Me, neither Yoda nor Obi-Wan felt like helping Luke, I mean, Yoda had just become a ghost, so maybe he was just getting used to things, but Obi-Wan really is the worst, maybe that be my true theory today. The force that ghosts cannot resolve. everything, but at least they could have done something with the endor slackers, but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory and cuts, this is the subscribe button you're looking for, this is the subscribe button you're looking for , you will press the subscribe button. will ring the bell for future notifications will you help us reach the 10 million subscriber milestone so we can get the glorified paperweight that comes with it is my strength strong enough it comes through the tubes maybe this is a power from the dark side I don't know I know we'll see each other next time