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Star Wars just changed the way they explain how the force works.
And one of the big reasons
is to avoid ever having to talk about medical reasons ever again.
I don't think they've been mentioned in live action since the events
of the prequels.
the interesting thing though, is the new definition
or the new canon definition for how the force works
is also meant to be more accurate to George Lucas's original intentions back
when he was making the original trilogy, even though he's the person who introduced
the idea of middle Chlorians during the prequels.
Again, it's like poetry, sort of.
They rhyme so we'll break it all down.
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but during the recent episodes
they've explained that essentially any living being in the Star Wars
universe can wield the force the same way the Jedi Sith, my sisters,
these new Dark Jedi like Balan school and chin hottie, can wield the force.
whereas before, a lot of fans treated it as sort of like a force sensitive
and not force sensitive situation where,
like only certain people could actually use the force
The quote that they used during the Ahsoka series is meant to be a callback
to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
His original definition for how the force works back in a new Hope
when he was explaining it to Luke Skywalker,
When Ahsoka is telling Sabine that essentially everyone
has access to the force that includes non-human living things do in
when she clarifies that talent is a factor in people's ability to wield the force.
What she means is that any random person could theoretically train as a Jedi
and gain some basic skills.
But that doesn't mean
that anybody can become a Jedi or a Sith or a nice sister in the traditional sense
to the level of people that you normally look at as Jedi characters.
those ones are meant to be examples of the very powerful Jedi,
very powerful, says Other force wielders who are incredibly powerful.
that's why Hu Yang had that line where he was talking about
the practical barriers to entry into those types of orders.
the idea that even the darker groups like the Sith, the Knight Sisters,
were very selective in that
they only took people who had the greatest potential for power.
They weren't letting anybody at all
who had any kind of force abilities into the orders really good examples.
This is the nice sisters.
Like every single woman born to the nice sisters, didn't
automatically become another Knights sister Darth Maul.
Zab Brack. He was born to this knight's sister.
that didn't mean that all the Zab Bragg people
that were born tonight sisters were trained in the force.
Darth Maul is one of the exceptions and his brother
that's why Ahsoka was arguing with Hu Yang about one of the reasons
why she didn't agree with the Jedi Order because she felt like Sabine
could become a Jedi, just like all the ones that came before her.
But the order wouldn't have viewed her as being naturally talented enough.
ahsoka's workaround for that problem in present day.
Is it just trains being way harder and she'll have to spend way
longer than it would normally take for someone to become a full Jedi Knight
like Enoch and Skywalker, for instance,
who was born incredibly powerful, incredibly talented.
they kind of got into this during the Star Wars Rebel series.
When Kanan was training Sabine with the Darksaber,
He basically said the same thing
that Ahsoka just said how Sabine could use the force.
But internally she was having trouble connecting with it because of past trauma,
meaning there was more of a mental thing
on her part that she just needed to get past.
maybe because she doesn't have the force.
You don't believe she can do this? No.
The force resides in all living things, but you have to be open to it.
Sabine is blocked.
Her mind is conflicted.
She's so mandalorian.
Very.
so Dave Filoni, who did Star Wars
Rebels, is is bringing forward that idea into live action.
And this is the new overarching definition
for the way the force is supposed to work.
part of the reason for this, for recontextualizing,
how the force works and explaining how people use it is
so that they never have to talk about midichlorians ever again.
the funny thing
too, is this is actually accurate to what George Lucas originally intended
for the force. Way back when he was making the original trilogy.
He just had a better way of thinking about it, explaining to people,
then got a little crazy with the middle chlorians
and making it all about how high your count was
and actually trying to quantify it like your medical origin count is a 1000.
That means that you can become a much greater Jedi than this other person.
instead of just saying that the force was this mystical Zen type of thing,
anyone could use it, but had to be naturally talented
or have the will to actually do what it took to learn how to use it.
this is George Lucas's original quote about how the force is supposed to work.
He says a lot of people get confused about the force.
They see it as some special thing that you can find
and pick up and put it on your head and suddenly you have the force.
Whereas it's always been designed so that every living being has the force,
the amount of force, which is like talent or intelligence
is different in every person.
Some of it is inherited, but it's no more than a talent.
It's not something you can acquire.
It's something that you have to learn to use.
That's also a way of explaining how Grogu
and other characters can hide themselves in the force,
like sort of blocked themselves from using the force.
And they slowly begin
to lose their abilities and learn how to connect with the force.
Luke Skywalker had to help him get over that past trauma
so that he could sort of unlock that mental barrier
and reconnect with the force and become more powerful again.
George Lucas
goes on to say, I have the power to lift that cup off the table
using the force, but I can't do it unless I've been trained to do it.
this scene of Ahsoka and Sabine with the cup of tea, is Dave Filoni
basically working an Easter egg for George Lucas's definition of the force, Like
he's making a reference to George Lucas, his way of defining the force.
the other reason why
they're recontextualizing how the force works is to correct some fan
driven head canon that goes back to the old school novels
when they were making the original trilogy.
So the actual term Force Sensitive originally came from Splinter
of the Mind's Eye
and now non-canonical book
about an adventure Luke Skywalker had between events in the trilogy.
I think it was New Hope, An Empire Strikes Back,
and I don't think that the term force sensitive has ever been used
in the same way in any of the Star Wars movies or in the live action series.
It may have been mentioned once or twice,
but I really don't think that they've actually done it that much.
would eventually wound up happening, though?
After that book came out, fans started using the term force sensitive
to refer to people who could use the force versus people who could not
it'd be kind of like me making up an explanation
for something about lightsabers, even if it conflicted with something
that George Lucas said earlier on, like, No, I never intended for lightsabers
to work that way.
So your fan explanation isn't really valid.
this is actually a surprise for me.
I actually didn't realize that the term force sensitive
didn't come from the actual movies or from George Lucas himself.
Lego.
I've been thinking of it the wrong way too, this whole time.
So when a lot of people were asking when the series started
if Sabine Wren was supposed to be force sensitive,
it was actually an incorrect way
of thinking about like the whole concept was wrong from the beginning.
the new official definition for how the force works,
and what Hu Yang and Ahsoka had both personally said about Sabine,
or meant to explain that she can become a Jedi like Ahsoka as Bridger,
any of the other Jedi.
She's just so untalented this.
She's like that kid that you knew in school
who had to work twice as hard to learn math or how to read.
Eventually they got there.
It just took them way, way longer and way more work.
The other important thing is that even though they're trying to get away
from the concept to medical reasons, those technically are still canon.
So you can say that
Sabine has a lower mid a chlorine count than someone like Yoda or Grogu.
You per the Jedi orders traditions.
They would have measured her and barred her entry
because they felt like her score would have been too low.
It'd be like getting rejected from a college
because your test scores were so low, but you could still learn
all the same things that you would have
at that university somewhere else, which Sabine is now doing with Ahsoka.
get to go to force college somewhere else that wants her
that's why Hu Yang made the comment about Sabine becoming a nontraditional Jedi
like a soldier in how Ahsoka herself came from a line of nontraditional Jedi
because she was trained by Anakin Skywalker, very nontraditional.
He was a child of the force and almost denied entry by the Jedi Order.
he came from
quite gone Gen who hated the Jedi Council and disagree with them all the time in
Saigon was trained by Count Dooku, who himself was a very nontraditional Jedi
in fact, he left the order just like a soldier there.
Not too dissimilar in that way.
also like Grogu rejecting the traditional Jedi order
that Luke Skywalker was trying to resurrect at his Jedi Academy.
just to be clear, though, Dave Filoni isn't completely retconning
any of the concepts about the force.
George Lucas introduced in the prequels.
So unfortunately we still have to live with midichlorians.
But you can see how they're trying to move past that idea to find a way
to recontextualize the force so we never have to talk about them again.
plus their new way of defining the force and how it works is more true
to George Lucas's original intent for how it's supposed to work.
there's a lot of other stuff that's happening
during this Sabine Training arc that they're doing.
Like this is just the beginning and I think a lot of her path
to becoming a Jedi will involve what's really going on with Ezra Bridger.
So really expecting a huge twist with that.
I know there are a lot of theories about him
secretly being Marac or something else going on with the character.
we'll probably get some answers about that part of this equation pretty soon.
Hopefully.
Episode four Ahsoka will break his mask and we'll learn once and for all who
he really is.
Do not be surprised if Merak winds up being like a totally new random
inquisitor character.
There's not anybody special like he's
not meant to be a Canon version of Starkiller.
He's not meant to be a dark version of Ezra.
He's just like a totally different character.
most of the evidence
is still pointing towards the fact that Sam Witwer is doing The Voice
when he's wearing the helmet, though,
and his voice is being modulated like the Darth Vader version of his voice.
The James Earl Jones version of his voice, timing things out, though.
If Sabine eventually does become a Jedi Knight somewhere
during the events of these next couple of Star Wars series in movies,
do not be surprised if we still make it through the first Thrawn movie
and she has not become a Jedi yet.
Like I think they're taking their time with this.
it's kind of like Luke Skywalker's progression through the original trilogy.
like, you didn't become a Jedi Knight during Empire Strikes Back.
That's why Yoda was making fun of him so much.
Like, Oh, you think you're a Jedi Knight? That's hilarious.
It really wasn't.
Till we got
to the events of Return of the Jedi in everything he went through through that.
But he actually became a full Jedi Knight.
do not be surprised if Sabine does not become a Jedi Knight
till like the end of the third Thrawn movie.
Hopefully they'll make it to a trilogy. I think that's the idea.
They want to see how this
first Thrawn movie goes like this heir to the Empire movie in.
If it does do well, they'll do the full trilogy.
my Force. Okay.
Episode four Video We'll post next week after they release it,
and we should get some more details about what's happening with Thrawn.
I expect him to start popping up in episodes in the second half of the series.
I don't think they're going to wait
till the very end before revealing what's really going on,
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