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Does this mean that when Anakin loses his legs and arms (a lot of cells) he also loses about 40% of his midichlorians and therefore much of his force ability?
From what was said in PT they live within our cells, I don't know if less cells=less Midi-chlorians=less force ability. I do know they throw physical limitations into the mix. It has now become the more midi-chlorians you're born with, the stonger your are with the force. This isn't how the force was explained by Yoda.
At this point, I think we're just better off without his prequels.
"I over-estimated Lucas's creativity and discovered that he's nothing but a cognitive creator with a good imagination, but can hardly direct and definitely could not write himself out of a wet paper bag (even if the pencil was sharp). However, someone with such a creative wit could never be stopped from exercising what they feel to believe their genious no matter how many people try to convince them they can't do it. Lucas established his influential powers early with the first Star Wars film and buddying up to other noted talents like Steven Spielberg. To do what Lucas wanted to do with Episodes I, II, and III, he strategically surrounded himself with a bunch of butt-kissing "yes" men. Those people gave him the liberty with 20th Century Fox he desired and was able to create a whole slew of crap without being hinged upon that was guaranteed success merely by name. He could have written the phonebook into either film, and they still would have grossed as well. They're "Star Wars" for crying out loud."
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I like this idea. But instead of actually building him, maybe anakin could take home a broken astromech droid that Watto was going to throw out and repair him and program him in his own fashion, which would explain R2's personality (he's the only astromech who has one it seems).
Makes sense to me, Artoo is a astromech with attitude and spunk, why not. Or better yet, he could of left C3PO and R2 out entirely, maybe cameos. Why can't we have original characters with the same amount of appeal as C3PO, R2-D2, & Chewie. Oh wait ... we had Jar-Jar Binks and General Gravious!