@fille-lioncelle replied to your post: “@fille-lioncelle replied to your post: “ok but one thing that’s...”:
I just assumed everyone has midichlorians in the blood but true there was that whole thing about how Anakin has "an unusually high concentration".... totally forgot about that.
Yeah, it seems like it kind of varies between materials (because like... Luke can tell just from Feeling when certain people, apparently, are highly FS, but couldn't tell that he has the same force signature as Leia and that she's the other most powerful person in the galaxy?? Rey can sense not only when someone is approaching, but differentiate people's signatures, but she can't tell that Finn is also FS?? Anakin "son of the actual Force" Skywalker couldn't tell that Padme was having twins or that Leia was his daughter when he was torturing her??) but it generally seems like "Force sensitives" are like, A Special Breed Who Move Differently In The Force Than Everything Else, which, I guess, fine, but also, a) be consistent about how it works, and b) ...boring, and also, a weird departure from Lucas' Campbell fanboying?
Part of the whole ~schema~ of the monomyth/Hero's Journey is that the hero doesn't have a superpower or any innate reason to Be The Hero, they're the hero because they answer the call and choose to be Good/A Hero. So like, in that way, ANH -- Luke doesn't become a Jedi because he's so Force-sensitive, he becomes a Jedi simply because he finds out his father was a Jedi. "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." Not "because something inside me has always been there, and now it's awake," which like, yes re: Rey because by the time TFA came out they'd changed how the Force works, etc, but also... Rey taught herself to attune to the Force TO SURVIVE AS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD ALONE IN THE DESERT, yk?
Rey LEARNED to differentiate who was approaching her from great distance, she LEARNED to soften her own falls, she LEARNED to be able to sense when there was water or growing things or food sources nearby, etc. THAT is what makes sense.
It makes sense that when, in canon, Poe tells Rey how he feels when he's flying, she says it sounds like he's using the Force -- Poe might have learned to tap into that rhythm of the Galaxy when he's flying because that's when he needs that "muscle" to be able to stay alive and keep track of his friends/loved ones/people, but the rest of the time, he doesn't use that skill because it like, doesn't... affect him the way the stakes of flying do? So he doesn’t. He’s not “Force-sensitive” per se because he... chooses not to be, except when he’s flying, and that MAKES SENSE. (It would make sense for Han, too!)
So for Finn to have CHOSEN to tap into that sensitivity, ESPECIALLY IF THEY EXPLAIN AWAY THE LACK OF HIM HAVING A PLOTLINE WHILE IN A COMA AS "FINN SPENDS THIS TIME FLOATING IN THE CURRENT OF THE FORCE LEARNING HOW TO TAP INTO IT AND USE IT" TBH, would also make sense with Poe and Rey.
Like, he felt Slip die on Jakku! We've known this since 2015! We've known he was FS! But the idea of Rey NOT knowing, or that Leia didn't train him alongside her, makes NO SENSE unless NO ONE "feels powerful in the Force," not just that HE doesn't. Harrumph!
