What do Jedi ghost do when they aren't interacting with the living?

[Owain Taggart]

My assumption would be that upon death, living creatures join with the Force. Certain Jedi and other force wielders have already attuned themselves and forged a link to the Force and so manage to preserve their personality in some form during that transition.

That's been my impression as well. And it's likely that the form itself is a manifestation based on the familiarity of the force user, but that in actuality, it's probably the force guiding them rather than any particular person.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Force Kenobi: Dials up on a ghost Force phone, "Annakin, how are you?

Force Annakin: "Still dead."

Force Kenobi: "Me, too. Well, good talking to you. I gotta go -- have a whole lot of nothing to do for eternity, dead."

 

[Kor]

Well in the original version he'd aged pretty badly then. Anakin was only 44 in Return of the Jedi. I'd be a bit peeved off with the Force when it made me look like the 77 year old Sebastian Shaw.

Getting barbecued on Mustafar will do that to you.

Kor

 

[Leviathan]

They become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

 

[Set Harth]

^ But none of that (the quotes) were clearly explained or used in the finished OT films, particularly the ideas about all that happens when one dies.

But none of it is inconsistent with the OT. The OT establishes nothing which contradicts any of it, and certainly does not establish Christian eschatology anywhere.

And the point was that Lucas' ideas about 'all that happens when one dies' had predated the prequels by twenty years and had nothing to do with the EU. So blather about 'the convoluted Force meanings from the prequels and the now thankfully erased EU' is irrelevant here.

(and there was no such thing as a Force ghost during ANH's production).

"Both Alec Guinness and I came up with the thing of having Ben go on afterward as part of The Force." - Lucas, quoted in Rolling Stone, 1977

Lucas changed his ideas on the Force so much

Nope. He changed his ideas on how many movies there would be. Some seem to see this as a bludgeon to be wielded against other subjects.

that he ended up creating contradictions in the series about its basic nature--the worst example being his revisionist PT midichlorians

Midichlorians contradict precisely nothing from the OT. The revisionism is on your part, as you seem to ignore the fact that ROTJ established high-level Force potential being passed down genetically in a certain bloodline. Midichlorians are merely the details underscoring this phenomenon.

But in addition you make another even more fundamental misrepresentation, as you conflate the nature of the Force itself with the nature of Force sensitivity, in order to fabricate make-believe 'contradiction':

and rating Force ability of users, which was not a part of any definition of the Force in the OT.

Maybe because a 'definition of the Force', as its name suggests, would stick to defining the Force, as opposed to exploring the Force ability of users?

As you seem unfamiliar with the content of the films:

The Force is defined in ANH (and TESB). The mechanism of differential Force sensitivity, however, is not defined.

In TPM the mechanism of Force sensitivity is defined, but the film neglects to actually define the Force.

Learning about midichlorians in TPM does not define the Force. Midichlorians are not the Force. The definition of the Force as presented in ANH (or TESB) remains intact. Nothing about it is overwritten or removed. TPM can't be contradicting the definition of the Force when it is talking about a different subject.

And this is all before we even get to the fact that variance in innate Force ability is a thing in the OT. It is inescapably baked into the narrative. What do you think it means when it is said that the Force is strong with someone?

You refer to Han using Hell as colloquial speech, but such speech is derived from established ideas, concepts or places, thus Han's use of Hell obviously is based on his thinking Hell is a location.

Bullshit. I use that word, and I don't think it's a location. And again, Han thinking something would not necessarily make it true. At one point he believed the Force did not exist ( in a way that made him look irreligious if anything ).

 

[1001001]

They're all hanging out with Han

 

[Reverend]

Well since they exist in a place where time has no meaning (Qui-Gon's words) the question of what they "do" at any given time is equally meaningless. But mostly they probably just heckle Anakin for laughs.