@Edent In the podcast Story and #StarWars, which I think went defunct before Episode VII, the guy argued that the climax of A New Hope was not the Death Star exploding but rather the moment when Luke turned off his targeting computer. His broader theory was that the original trilogy's conflict was not empire vs. rebellion or technology vs. nature or even good vs. evil, but harmony vs. disharmony. The Empire was wrong because it attempted to impose unnatural & unbalanced uniformity on the galaxy. It could never work, regardless of its badness or goodness. Like you argue (I think), in the first movie the Force was presented as more of a sensitivity to the natural rhythm (harmony) of things. Only later it became more of a traditional comic book superpower of telekinesis and fighting ability. starwars