The Last Jedi The Force - What are the rules?

[Orba]

Jedi and Sith has more midichlorian count than a normal being.

Hence why the Jedi and Sith don't just train any being in the galaxy.

Midichlorians were always a massive mistake, it took the spirituality out of the Force. Also to me it would seem that a race could only be able to use the Force if they were biologically compatible. How would a microbe from a carbon based life-form work with a silicon based life-form or some other kind of biology. What if the species didn't actually have blood.

To me the best change would just be to make midichlorians a symptom rather than a cause. They don't give people Force powers, they are just things that tend to be found in high numbers in people sensitive to the Force. Because of that testing for them in blood was a quick and easy field test that Jedi could do when looking at new recruits.

 

[Lilbaz]

As said the force is limited by what the storyteller/dirctors imagination.
That said the limits should be that the director has to put in a lot of thought before introducing a new forcepower in not only how it will effect his story, but how it will effect future stories that haven't been told yet and how it effects the continuity of the star wars universe.
Think rian got away with his force facetime power because it is stated that it is a very high level power that could rip a jedi apart. So it will be limited in it's use.

What he didn't get away with was using hyperspeed as a weapon.

 

[TheVileOne]

There was no light side or dark side abilities then.

Exactly. So then it's literally whatever the writers at the moment want these abilities to be.

 

[Bobber]

Jedi and Sith has more midichlorian count than a normal being.

Hence why the Jedi and Sith don't just train any being in the galaxy.

What's a midichlorian?

 

[RocketsNutz]

This thread is making me want to go back and watch the last few episodes of TCW (the Yoda centric ones), lots of meat in those about the nature of the force.

Maybe I've just been too affected by the notion that if Snoke is indeed from the great expanse or whatever, ie basically from outside the SW galaxy as we have known it, then perhaps he's got some abilities that we aren't familiar with (which he's started to teach Kylo)... the mind probing stuff as well as the merging stuff.

I also took the Yoda thing to be him manipulating the environment, a la Bendu.