11 Ways Star Wars: The Last Jedi Was Basically The Empire Strikes Back
7. The Force Is Explored More Fully Than In The Previous Title
The Empire Strikes Back, being the second in what was now certain to be a trilogy, gave George Lucas the first opportunity to really explore and explain the Force. Obi-Wan gave us a very memorable introduction to it in A New Hope, but here we meet Yoda.
Discovered by Luke, Yoda explains the Force in many different ways over several key scenes. He describes how size matters not, that control is needed, that it can be used to see the future or find friends who are far away and that while the Dark Side is not stronger, it is quicker, easier and more seductive to use.
In The Last Jedi, when Rey confronts Luke, we are given more information about the Force from a Jedi Master than we have had for years. He sees it somewhat differently, given his frustrations, and we see Rey really reaching out and feeling it under guidance for the first time. Luke explains how it is generated from living things, and even the ground and the sky, but that it can really be felt inside and also exists between all of these things.
The Empire Strikes Back gave us far more detail in the second film. Now, despite being the ninth of the Star Wars films, The Last Jedi gives us more information and more to think about regarding the Force than we have had for many installments, and from a special source in an aged, grizzled Luke Skywalker.