Coincidences in Star Wars

First off, with everything we know about The Force Awakens it seems like an absolutely epic film. But if your like me, when rumors started circulating that Luke's ESB lightsaber magically floats from outer space and finds its way into the hands of TFA's protaganist, you got a wee bit nauseated. Questions like this come to mind: "How is that possible?", "Abrams and company couldn't come up with anything better than that?". I hate to be that guy, but lets face it, the odds of the lightsaber's voyage from Bespin to Jakku are like 3,720 to 1. If your struggling with accepting this plot line, read on. This is how I moved past solemnly accepting this plot (like I do Jar Jar, or the singing alien in blu-ray ROTJ) to genuinely loving the idea.

In Star Wars, the Force is a living thing with a will of its own. It doesn't matter if your Luke and you believe in it the first time Old Ben mentions it, or if your Han and you never accept it, the Force influences you and everything else in the universe. Lets look at some of my personal favorite coincidences in Star Wars

Episode 1: Of all the places in the galaxy Qui-Gon could have landed the busted Nubian after escaping Naboo, they park it not only on Tatooine, but the outskirts of the town where The Chosen One lives. WHAAAT!????

Episode 3: We find out Chewy and Yoda were friends. Then later Chewy and Luke are friends. Then Luke and Yoda are friends. And none of them ever new they had important mutual friends. (Ok I know thats knipicking)

Episode 4: C3P0 and R2, carrying Death Star plans, get ejected off of Leia's ship in escape pod. Of all the places on Tatooine, escape pod lands near home that Luke, Anakin, C3P0, and R2 have lived in or visited at some point. Jawas abduct droids and sell them to Luke, the protaganist of the OT. Luke uses Death Star Plans to blow up Death Star. You've gotta be kidding me right?

Episode 5: Vader is tirelessly searching for Luke and the Rebels. Empire launches probe droids to find them. Of all the planets, or even total surface area of Hoth, a probe droid lands a couple hundred yards away from Luke on tauntaun. NOOO WAAAY!!!

The point is, we are stressing about the ESB lightsaber landing on Jakku, when in fact we should be more surprised that when the lightsaber falls out of the sky it doesn't hit Rey square in the head. I mean come on, is the lightsaber thing driving the story in TFA any crazier than the coincidence I mentioned for Episode 4. Like I said the Force is alive guys. We shouldn't look at any of these things as coincidences, but as the Force working in mysterious ways. A lot of times we say "I want someone to prove that the Force is stronger than the Death Star like Vader says"........Well there you go guys. The Force is stronger because it had a plan for Luke, and through a series of unbelievable coincidences it led farm boy Luke off of Tatooine and into an X-wing to destroy the Death Star. Isn't that awesome. And its AWAKE for Episode 7 and through very extraordinary coincidences, its leading Rey, Fin, and Poe on what will be an unbelievable journey. Let's put aside our skepticism and enjoy the ride

Peace