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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Star Wars outside of the original trilogy is just silly made up magic powers whenever the plot requires it.
In the original trilogy, Force powers were quite subdued. You could mind trick someone or use mild telekinesis and minor acrobatics. Even Master Yoda took a lot of concentration to lift up an X-Wing.
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I liked the idea of seeing the Jedi at their height in the OT, and really they didn't have super exaggerated power. I mean we saw force speed, We saw Sidious' lightning. We saw clearly trained swordsmen. If there were cringing force moments in was the ST with Sidious' fleet killing lightning. Rey lifting a field of boulders after getting 3 hours of training.
When we look at the force users that were left. Yoda was 900 years old and at the end of life, so he was weakened. Luke was relatively untrained compared to the Jedi in the PT. Vader was rusty but also a old battered man. Ben was basically out of practice and old, and looking for his sacrifice. Sidious still retained his power and he should have been the most sneakily powerful force user of his time.
At the time of the Phantom Menace you could argue that the Jedi were at their height of power. In AOTC, we saw the acendance of Sidious, the Jedi arrogance and the tipping of the Force to the Dark side was starting to deny the Jedi their power. By the time of ROTS the Force was completely tinted to the Dark Side. Even Yoda couldn't beat Sidious. But that was the will of the Force, that it was the end of the Jedi, the great metaphysical purge.
By the time of ROTJ, that had flipped on its ear. Sidious who could see events through the force had been blinded by his own arrogance and lack of challenge and the Force tipped back towards the light side.
In the end though, the balance of the force promised by the prophesy had indeed been misread. by dying and killing off in theory Sidious and even leaving just Luke as pretty much the sole Force user in the galaxy, the Force had tipped to the Light side, which put the force back out of balance again.
I suppose at the end of the ST, that Rey encompassed the light side, and the dark side by her bloodline and left the Force in a state of grey.