I think Disney's goal is to allow ANYONE to use the Force

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Seriously? No-one thinks that Disney wants to turn Star Wars into a SUPERHERO FRANCHISE?

My take on Star Wars back in the day, before the prequels or the EU ever existed, was that anybody could use the Force with training and discipline. It's like a monk ability. Clearing your mind and becoming one with the universe and all that. Keep at it and you can be a Jedi master too, just like getting a black belt and chopping ice blocks in half with your fists.

They're going about in a very sloppy way, but it seems to me Disney is just resetting the "rules" back to the open concept of the OT.

Yep, that way you could use it better for kids series.

And nope, the force never was in everyone strong enough to use it. Just in a few ones. Thats why the Jedis searched for them. But now disney means "Wanna force? Buy it from us!" :) .

My take on it is that the force is just like any other discipline, anyone can learn but it takes a combination of natural ability & hard work to be the best, ideally from a young age. If you take up tennis in your 20s you'll get pretty good but you'll never be winning Wimbledon...

So the OT and the PT didn't contradict each other. But the sequels...? Disney's take on the force? Well aint nobody got time for any of that hard work, training, or discipline shit, the force is now just a cheap excuse to have super powers without even having to bother with the effort of an origin story.

There will be a Star Wars/Marvel crossover movie in the next ten years. It will be a desperate move to milk the two franchises before they start to become unprofitable.

it's all about equality.... genders must be erased, everyone is the same. it's the Disney and liberal way.....everybody is special, everyone gets a price. everyone can join,

While the original movies said the Force was in everyone and everything, it always required training which was why there was an entire Jedi Order and why Obi-Wan and Yoda trained Luke. Even then, it was obvious the Force was stronger in some people than others ("The Force is strong in this one" "The Force is strong in my family" etc). While I don't like the Medichlorian stuff, it still coincides with the idea that some are more in tune with the Force than others as some people are born with higher medi-counts than others. There are Disney apologists who like to pretend none of this happened, though.

I agree that Disney is turning Star Wars into a superhero franchise. While I hate it, it's hardly surprising given the success of superhero movies. It's hard to blame Disney for delivering what they believe people want to see, blame all the people who can't get enough of stupid superheroes.

The force is within everyone but hardly anyone is forces sensitive. If you're not force sensitive you can't feel or use the force, no matter how hard you try. The force is stronger in some people and it's apparently something that can be inherited. This is rarely the case though, since Jedis aren't supposed to have kids and that's why they search the galaxy for naturally gifted force sensitives. While mastering the force requires hard work and training it appears ridiculous to me if force sensitives can't pick up a trick or two on their own, without any training. Nothing major like Rey but something like moving a broom...