But either possibility is intriguing, if the implication is that what we have seen of The Force in all of the past installments will seem to be a sleeping thing compared to what we will see of it beginning in this new film. Naturally, another interpretation is that the title continues to refer to the practitioners of Force-manipulation, and some awakening of the power of The Force which uniquely appears for the first time in this new installment. But the current title is one which most strongly suggests that The Force is itself in some sense a sentience, a thinking thing capable of experiencing long unawakened states, and undoubtedly awestriking wakefulness. I have contended before that the metaphysical operations of the Star Wars mythology are well-consistent with Pandeism as an underlying theological model, though they might as readily be pantheistic as pandeistic. Two of the titles previous to now - Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi - have invoked the two major practitioners of manipulation of The Force, but none has been about The Force itself, as a thing proper. This may turn out to be purely an exercise in focus-group-tested marketing, but I'd like to hope that it signifies something about the trajectory of the franchise. But today we do know one more detail: the title of the first new film:
Nobody outside the carefully policed world of the film's production knows much about the coming next Star Wars trilogy, other than the fact that the cast of the original trilogy has returned to their original (if considerably elder) roles, and that Harrison Ford was on the receiving end of a brutal foot injury when a Millennium Falcon fell on him.
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