Originally posted by: Tiptup

Originally posted by: Wesyeed

Star wars re-enforced the idea of having faith in your abilities, letting go of relying on techno doo hickies, and achieviing something just because you believe you can...

Star wars was a very different galaxy far far away until 1999... Mutant jedi huh... heh sure, magneto and xavier and wolverine are jedi. Yoda didn't have enough midichlorians to defeat the emperor. Size Matters. Obi-wan had more midis, that's why he beat darth maul. "Master Yoda, you can't die." "Many midichlorians do I have, but not that many..." And my favorite, "Use the midichlorians, Luke."

Hmmm, perfect explanation and illustration for why the "midiclorians" idea was way too specific. I liked how they were linked to the creation of life and Anakin's conception, but beyond that they add so many new questions and problems to the understanding of the force that the average viewer simply scratches his or her head and doesn't like it anymore.

There are a lot of things that made me scratch my head about the pt but I gave it a free pass in some vague hope that it'd be expounded on in the next film to make it more relevant than just some throwaway detail, but it never came. I think lucas came up with very interesting concepts as well, but his execution of them was very sloppy in the end indicating to me that there was no clear plan laid out for all three of the new films. Midichlorian power levels, palpatine's overly complicated plot, jar jar, anakin building threepio, Taz manian yoda, General cheezy, all this stuff amounted to something that struck me as artificial or cartoony and self indulgent rather than necessary and good for the story.

I think it's just because noone told him, "no"