re: George Lucas talks about his Star Wars Sequels that were never made

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Actually, I think the force was best when it was mysterious and not explained in detail.

A lot of movies screw this up. Not everything has to be laid out and obvious. The force in the original trilogy was a mysterious unifying force. It had a dark and light side and you could move stuff around and shoot lightning with it. That was fine.

Then Lucas tried to get all scientific about it for no reason. He stuck in midichlorians and made a cool mysterious thing sort of boring and mundane. Movies usually benefit from a little mystery.

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I can’t possibly upvote this hard enough.

Amen, amen, amen!

It’s best to NOT fully explain stuff like this and leave mystery.

This was my problem with LOST. My beef wasn’t with the things they didn’t explain, but rather with the stuff they over-explained, clumsily.

Often there’s just no way to explain something like the Force that’ll be nearly as badass as the indefinite concept in the audience’s mind, so it’s best to not even try.

It’s like women - sometimes they look better in revealing clothing or lingere that leaves you wanting more than they actually do naked.