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- Embed this notice@polarisera That's complicated but, all in all, Favreau is right but not for the reason some people might think. It's true that in Star Wars, only Jedi have been shown as force ghosts. Favreau's character was a Mandalorian warrior with no known sensitivity to the force. People might also say that even being a Jedi =/= automatically becoming a force ghost.
Let's take Qui-Gon Jinn, for example. He didn't simply die and become the ghost of Christmas Past. He died and, over the next however many years, made his way back from the "netherworld of the force." Not only did he do that, but Yoda had to then learn how to connect with Qui-Gon once he achieved this.
As the recent Obi-Wan series shows, despite Yoda declaring that he would teach Obi-Wan to commune with his dead master, he spent the next several years rather destitute. It was only after accepting that Anakin was no more and had been consumed by Darth Vader (arguably Obi-Wan's biggest hangup) that he was able to perceive the presence of Qui-Gon who says that he has always been there, Obi-Wan was just not ready until that point to actually see him.
Personally, according to Star Wars lore (and conveniently reflective of many real world spiritual beliefs) I think everyone exists within the force after death but it takes a certain type of force sensitivity to still be aware of both this different kind of existence and the world of the living (on the part of the dead person) and a certain type of force sensitivity to be able to perceive and interact with any of the deceased who accomplish that task.
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey hears the voices of many Jedi urging her to get up and keep going. Does that mean they were all hanging around, watching, waiting for someone to be able to perceive even just a few words from them? Did they only attain awareness of the world of the living for that moment? Who knows. JJ Abrams sucks and probably didn't think much about it. Nonetheless, it is canon.
So yeah, long story short, Favreu's character is not up to snuff. But who knows. Perhaps on the verge of death, his now orphaned child might have a moment when he perceives similar words of encouragement. Because *faces camera* love is the most powerful force of them all.
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