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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2277580" data-attributes="member: 4720">That's an extreme (and difficult to support) statement.&nbsp; Did Georgie, by some chance, run over your dog?He has actually been relatively consistent on the nature of the Force.&nbsp; By that I mean, he has been consistent twice.&nbsp; Back when he was doing the originals, he was consistent.&nbsp; And since he started the prequels, he has been consistent.&nbsp; I think there was some drift during the gap, but we can probably chalk that up to the personal growth of the man and his recognition that (thanks to his quirky fans) he could no longer get away with treating the Force as a mere plot device.Besides which, if anything, his explanations of the Force have been grossly UNcommercial and even opposed to what his market seems to want (of course, they're all very coy about what they want, with naught but certainty that &quot;that ain't it.&quot;)&nbsp; Example: There has not been universal love of midichlorians, has there?&nbsp; And yet, there they were again in Palpy's explanations this time.&nbsp; Example 2: People seem to insist in surprising numbers that their misinterpretation of Taoism mixed with a strange Gigaxian preference for &quot;Neutral&quot; is the proper explanation of &quot;Balance&quot; in the Force.&nbsp; He keeps telling them &quot;No.&nbsp; It doesn't work that way.&quot;It is not good marketing to tell your audience that they are wrong.&nbsp; Nor is it good marketing to keep telling a story that they claim they don't like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 2277580, member: 4720"] That's an extreme (and difficult to support) statement. Did Georgie, by some chance, run over your dog? He has actually been relatively consistent on the nature of the Force. By that I mean, he has been consistent twice. Back when he was doing the originals, he was consistent. And since he started the prequels, he has been consistent. I think there was some drift during the gap, but we can probably chalk that up to the personal growth of the man and his recognition that (thanks to his quirky fans) he could no longer get away with treating the Force as a mere plot device. Besides which, if anything, his explanations of the Force have been grossly UNcommercial and even opposed to what his market seems to want (of course, they're all very coy about what they want, with naught but certainty that "that ain't it.") Example: There has not been universal love of midichlorians, has there? And yet, there they were again in Palpy's explanations this time. Example 2: People seem to insist in surprising numbers that their misinterpretation of Taoism mixed with a strange Gigaxian preference for "Neutral" is the proper explanation of "Balance" in the Force. He keeps telling them "No. It doesn't work that way." It is not good marketing to tell your audience that they are wrong. Nor is it good marketing to keep telling a story that they claim they don't like. [/QUOTE]

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