re: #530 Salamantis

The midichlorian thingie was one of the weakest, lamest postulates of the Star Wars substructure. How’d the rascals get on all the planets and into all those different beings, anyway? Panspermia? And why, being phagic rather than genetic, did they tend to cluster in families?

They’d have been much better off going with the occasional recurrence of an inheritable genetic pattern that occurred (rarely) in many sentient species, simply as a result of the response of consciously self-aware life to its surroundings.

Totally agree. And let’s not forget that it completely undermines the story as laid out in the original three films, that “the Force” was developed through a process of enlightenment. If it were just some bacteria thingy, wouldn’t the Empire be serving it to their Star Troopers in yogurt or something? Or put whatever the active ingredient was in skin patches? Slap on a couple of those, along with an erectile dysfunction patch and WATCH OUT, BABY! I mean, an empire with the technology to keep a deep roasted quadriplegic alive and kicking, and build moon-size planetary destroying weapons can’t figure out how to make use of technology equivalent to churning out moonshine?

Gad, what were they thinking? The sponsors should have paid a security guard to keep Lucas as far away from a word processor as possible. Even JarJar seems like a deep, complex character when held up next to midichlorians.