The Force is the Force of course ... but is it?

[scottishlass]

I got this idea from dangermousie by way of crumpeteer who made this quote:
If Anakin was meant to bring balance to the Force, the Force is a cruel mistress.
this one sentence triggered something for me which has been hatching for a long time..

I have always suspected that the Force has its own agenda. Having read most of the EU books centering on Luke and love/family/relationships I realize that the Force is manipulating him as much or more as he is using the Force.
We always have been fed the hokey-dokey belief of the Force being benign if used right, but what if it is really all neutral, just sitting there waiting for the right person to come by and trying to make ends meet on her own agenda?

We have Anakin who is the Chosen One, he is the hero of old who will bring balance to the Force. But what balance? The Jedi of old think he will destroy the Sith, Palapatine thinks he will destroy the Jedi.
From the Force's POV? To wipe the slate clean, no more arrogant strutting around Jedi and the resurrection of the Jedi order in a completely (almost opposite) way to what the Jedi Council was. What if Anakin indeed was the chosen one only for the Force to get rid of the restrictive Jedi principles and with it accepting human failure within the Force, to restore it to a more humanized/natural Jedi order we come to see in SW EU.

Anakin in his struggle to meet the Jedi Councils principles was destined to fail from the beginning. The Force led him on if not much more so than Palpatine led him on. The Force needed Anakin/Vader to resurrect the Jedi. To have an order at its disposal that would see and use the Force in all its glory and failure. more human way. By accepting that the Jedi are stronger and more use to the Force by allowing all their human failures to be accepted and worked with rather than being regressed, the Force is following her own agenda, no matter what.

Woah, talking about being benign :s

Comments

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Wow, very true. I often do think about the prophecy of Anakin and how he brings balance to the Force...but can there ever really BE balance in the Force anyway?

[koellegirl.livejournal.com]

Interessting aspect, Una. And after seeing Episode 2 for the first time tonight, I very much like to agree with you.
But in general I have to admit - I still prefer Episode 4-6. Somehow knowing the outcome, spoilde the fun of the first 3 Episodes for me. I found them rather disappointing.
I mean, the time frame is completly wrong. Anakin was about 10 in the first movie and now he is about - what- 20 - 22. And then he meets his half brother and he is already about the same age as he is. That is stupid or am I wrong???
I prefer Luke and Han and Leia!!!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm a Original Trilogy girl myself too :) That is why I started to read the EU books, even though I don't like much of the New Jedi Order stuff. I'm more a Luke/Mara shipper than anything else ... and of course young Mark Hamill was my ever first crush *big grin*
I watched ep. 1 for the second time tonight and I was - again - so disappointed .. the whole charm of the trilogy is somehow lacking, it is all too smooth, too stream-lined and just all in all too boring. I can't relate to the characters the way I still relate to Luke, Han and Leia.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Good question ... but perhaps the Force likes to think of Balance as to have good and evil in both one individual. To accept the dark side in you in order to be a balanced being.
I think that is what always bugged me about the concept of Force, that there had to be good and evil on opposite sites. With the Expanded Universe books it became clear that it meant more the character of one individual. Look at Luke and Mara Jade, they wouldn't be the Jedi we really admire and like if a) Luke didn't have his dark side episode and ever since accepting that he has this side in himself too, and b) Mara Jade having been the Emperor's Hand. They both have experienced the dark side and have accepted it thus the Force accepting and blessing them.
In the old times of the Republic Mara and Luke would have never found each other or better yet would have found each other but would have, like Anakin and Padme, kept their love secret thus submitting one way or the other to the wrong path of the Force, i.e. choosing the light or dark side instead of accepting both, and accepting that life and marriage and children are a natural part of the Force.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I see. But then why was Anakin the one to bring balance? Because others who had once been good had turned to the dark side, such as Dooku. Right?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But Anakin also went beck from being evil, something Dooku didn't.

I think the balance was getting Jedi "restarted"

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He is not his half-brother. Owen is the offspring of Lars' first marriage.

I prefer PT by the way :)

[koellegirl.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, but it explains a lot.
Thanks for telling me.
Alice

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

I guess that's true, but it sounds so...strange.

I don't know, I always thought that balancing the Force would be some sort of super mysterious task.