hey guys what if the force wasn't an energy field created by all living
things what if the force isn't your midi-chlorian count what if instead it's
a power that comes from another dimension
well that was an idea George Lucas was exploring when working on the Empire
Strikes Back on a new hope George Lucas had to write the screenplay pretty much
himself which he hated doing so when it was time to get working on the sequel he
hired veteran science fiction author and screenwriter Leigh Brackett to help him
develop the story and write it and I am going to go over the transcripts from
that conference today I'll be focusing on the original way they wanted to use
Obi Wan again which led to a conversation about the source of the
force and revealed familiar as well as very different powers it could allow its
user to utilize I may bring back Ben eventually I'll have to bring back his
voice may also bring back the ghost of Ben but not the person of Ben Luke is
learning the force through a combination of things rituals the idea that you can
see things in another dimension would work great that Ben is now part of the
force and he can be there with Luke as Luke goes through this experience he
begins to see Ben in this other dimension he can begin to see his
ancestors in this other dimension with the force which would mean we could then
bring them back in a different kind of way says George Lucas Ben will explain
to Luke that he will gather all these powers but he can't use them for evil or
he will succumb to the dark side of the force if you use it for evil it will
start using you it is a force for good but the more you become addicted to it
the more it controls you and the side that controls you is the bad side the
side that you can control is the good side the good side is a passive side and
the bad side has an aggressive side two sides of the Force Ones aggressive when
is passive in relationship to things now in one of his notes George Lucas wrote
the mood of a warrior calls at once for control and abandon the force commands
you and obeys you unity of opposites if you use it well you can see the future
in the past you can read minds and you can levitate and use that whole
netherworld of psychic energy now the netherworld of psychic energy so
I guess that means George was considering that
the force was a power that comes from another dimension so instead of coming
from all living things it comes from dead things or the
afterlife of sorts and obi-wan could kind of channel the forces powers into
Luke or more like he from the nether world would allow Luke access to its
various powers but it was up to Luke to use it for either good or evil that's my
interpretation of it anyways what do you guys think about the whole ancestor
thing he says Luke can bring them back but in a different kind of way what do
you suppose that means so forest ghosts can return but maybe
zombies or he can bring them back to life but they can all interact in this
other dimension now he was originally going to bring Anakin and obi-wan back
to life in Return of the Jedi at the very end in one of the original scripts
if that was still a power the force allowed could kylo bring back his
ancestors which included Han Luke and his infamous grandfather now for those
of you wondering I don't think this should be able to apply it to just
regular humans I think should only be accessible to force users now for those
of you who have viewed my videos on Return of the Jedi know that there were
various drafts where Lucas did bring obi-wan Yoda and Anakin back to life as
I mentioned now what I wish would have happened is if JJ would have used this
in episode 9 I mean you know we did hear Luke say no one's really ever gone and
that's always something I really wanted to see was for all force ghosts to show
up at the end of the film but unfortunately yeah spoilers we didn't
get that there are rumors that the scenes were shot you know qui-gon jinn
mace windu all the Jedi even ahsoka but apparently it wasn't in the film who
knows maybe we'll get it someday or maybe we won't
now something I always wanted to experience in Star Wars you know see on
film not so much experience was see the characters such as Luke or Anakin
interact with those that are dead so I don't just mean interactive force ghosts
but interact with the next realm so something that I wish could have
happened in episode 9 was well we all thought Luke was dead in episode 8 but
what if he just learned how to sort of teleport into the next dimension maybe
become a force ghost but then learns how come back to the real world and he does
this sort of like he Gandalf the gray did to become Gandalf the White
almost a different person but you know still himself with all new powers and
abilities and learns a completely new version of the force and what it really
is to be a Jedi or just a force user I feel like that was a missed opportunity
or just a realm that we could have delved into but we didn't get to see
that I feel like if Luke would have woken up in this netherworld of the
force then maybe he could have seen you know his father and obi-wan and Yoda and
all the other Jedi and they could have just taught him different things he
could have been able to do certain feats of strength and powers and exercise his
abilities in ways that he's never done before we've never seen before in this
netherworld of the force this other realm it's almost like a planet but its
own galaxy maybe either way let me know what you think of this original draft
that George was thinking up I'll see you in the next video until that remember
the force will be with you always
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