@Infantry31st there is an article, The Mythology of ‘Star Wars’ with George Lucas from 1999, with Bill Moyers, he said:

"[One of the themes of Star Wars is] that you have control over your destiny, that you — you have a destiny, that you have many paths to walk down and — and you may have a great destiny. If you decide not to walk down that path, your life might not be as satisfying as if you wake up and listen to your inner feelings and realize what it is that you have a particular talent for and what contributions you can make to society."

He also said the Force is the "the larger mystery of the universe," and "to trust your feelings is your way into that." He said in Star Wars archives, the Force is the "metaphor for God" as he understands it.

He more or less repeats that in this this video that we have a destiny, we live for a reason, and we must find out what it is, but we can decide not to follow it, and in the book version of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (it should be visible in the preview part of google books) he explained, he believes, destiny is genetics, there is a talent innate to one's genetic code. Genetics has some spiritual meaning for him, since he says, "the Force is life" and the Force is given to cells by midi-chlorians, and he believes in a unified reality to life, a shared collective consciousness, spirit and life-force that produces but also transcends individual life forms.

Also on commentary tracks he explained pretty clearly that Anakin and Padmé should never marry each other, explicitly saying, "she married the wrong guy" despite they truly loved each other.

Depends whether the cosmos is deterministic or free will has sway. Mortis suggests determinism.

^ Thankfully, they haven't made one canon over the other. A fictional deterministic universe isn't even fun to watch.

It made no sense to me with that one. Even though the son was trying to manipulate him he still had a point that the future can still be changed and yet he decided to side against the jedi which is exactly what he ended up doing in what he saw. If you wanna change the future you gotta do the opposite of what you see yourself doing.

Yeah I’m just going to say it the Mortis Arc wasn’t TCW at its best, probably some of its worst episodes actually.

^^Ngl that part confused me too but it's also why I believe Anakin was destined for the dark side. He literally sees what he becomes and the atrocious acts he commits but instead of not allow himself to succumb to the darkness altogether he trades one devil for another devil. In order to prevent a tragic future he sides with a Sith in order to prevent his life from becoming hell. Sound familiar?

I mean it was stated in the Chosen One prophecy that Anakin was supposed to stop the Sith not join them

But according to Yoda it could have been misread meaning that it could have happened.

In the point of the Jedi who followed the Prophecy, he wasn't destined for evil

In the point of view of the Sith, I believe Palpatine wanted him to always be evil.

So I guess it depends on which point of view side you are looking at

@OmegaFramework I don't understand why a fictional deterministic universe wouldn't be fun to watch. All of the same things would happen, we just wouldn't know the cause. We may well exist in a deterministic universe but life seems to be very interesting and varied. It would be like saying history cannot be interesting because the stories have already been fixed.

If the Father is to be believed, Anakin will do what he does unless he stays on Mortis. Anakin refuses because he thinks he has free will and as such can change what will happen. And also because he's an arrogant mader chot. If we assume the Father was telling the truth then the SW universe looks likely to be deterministic but still fun.

^ But that isn't fun to me, because that implies that Anakin had no choice in the manner. Meaning his fall wasn't his fault, but the force's fault.

I know what you are saying. The force created him to be a tool for a specific purpose though so is that the same? Maybe not, not sure.

Problem is GL pulled both the chosen one prophecy and the rule of two out of his arse without thinking them through properly. That means that fans and the EU have to tie themselves in knots to retroactively explain it.