Thinking about Star Wars, and the Jedi, and
Thinking about The Broken Earth Trilogy, and removing children from their homes to force them into a system that makes them 'safer.' Thinking about how there were other ways to live that weren't so cruel, that didn't require them to break children's hands.
(did anyone ever kill their child rather than allow them to be taken by the jedi, or the sith?)
Thinking about Babylon 5 and telepaths. [and removing children from their homes to force them into a system that makes them 'safer'], and the telepathic rating system.
That one episode about the guy that was pushed to be more and more to the point where he stopped being human, and became the universe instead.
(thinking about the Mortis Arc in Clone Wars--the father and the son and the daughter and balance and dark and light)
Thinking also about how weak telepaths are ignored but still forced to conform to the system. How they're kept apart and 'what happens when the gloves come off' and banding together.
Thinking about how much time we spend in star wars with only the strongest, most impressive jedi. Never the ones in the agricultural or medical or whatever else corps. There was a series of books when I was a kid about Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's time together that starts with Obi-Wan almost not being chosen as a padawan and ending up in the agricultural corps instead.
I would very much like to see, some day, a story like that, about less sensitive, less 'talented' jedi (or other force users, tbh) coming together to accomplish something no one thought they could. No saviours but we save ourselves.
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Did the entire galaxy have access to the force the whole time, or is it a thing that arose on one planet and then spread? A symbiotic relationship between one species and midichlorians, where the midichlorians have a collective consciousness/identity/whatever, akin to the protomolecule builders in The Expanse?
A relationship that took time to build so that people maintained their sense of individual self, instead of being consumed by the collective.
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thinking about other ways to relate to the force, outside of the Jedi and Sith. Older and stranger ways. We get peeks sometimes (force witches, but also older entities on this planet or that in Clone Wars and Rebels...hopefully in other media as well)
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Probably some or all of this has actually been addressed in parts of the canon, or is totally irrelevant, but whatever, we get to play, too.