I say to George Lucas: “You lost me at Midichlorians.”
I find Midichlorians offensive, George. The force is GENETIC? It’s … something IN THE BLOOD … rather than a mystical energy source that ANYONE can tap into??
J’accuse!
Barry … please. Not a word. This outrage is fun for us. Thank you.
I loved every second of Jerry Maguire and I don’t care who knows it.
The gutters will flow with the blood of the non-believers!!!!!
Can you get them in a transfusion?
Are they catching? (“I don’t want you playing with that Skywalker brat – Lord knows what you’ll catch from him!” or, perhaps, “Anakin’s got midis!”)
Hmmm. There are plenty of great stories out there where lineage or “birthright” play a large role. You can make a case that genetics was important to the plot. I can’t recall a single one that gets into the scientific details of it though. That’s just tacky.
When you get into the mystical, or spiritual if you will, realm, Lucas seems to be placing a genetic throttle out there. That just doesn’t seem right to me either. Nope.
I’m having a shitty week too. Hang him.
Jess- I loved it,too!!!! I love sappy movies. And I am proud to admit it!
As long as no one makes fun of me….
I figured it was a virus or something, like the flu. “I can’t come in to space-work, I’m strong in the Force today.” Except when you sneeze you end up knocking starships around. “Excuse me, I’m a particularly luminous being today.” (“You may think size is important, but it’s not.”)
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Dorkafork, THAT is brilliant.
I guess he needed some explanation for the fact that the Force is stronger with some than others. Pretty clunky. Feed him to the icthyosaurs off Five Mile Crib, I say.
Yeah, but the “force”, if you will, is stronger in people like Gandhi … or Martin Luther King … or whatever. I always saw it as tapping into that great universal power source – some do it 100%, others need more training, blah blah blah. It’s NOT GENETIC.
Jess:
Blue Crush is one of my favorite movies. And I don’t care who knows.
One of my greatest disappointments (well, aside from Jar Jar Binks) of “episode 1” was learning that the Force was not some kind of religious spiritual energy, but rather was some kind of critter that lived in your bloodstream.
In fact, I think I turned to the person I was with and said “Ohhhh, man, Lucas has RUINED it now.”
The whole concept of the Force as some sort of universal energy that could be tapped into by training or purity of heart or whatever – there was something very cool about that. The concept of the Force as a symbiotic organism, so them that’s got shall have and them that’s not shall lose – that’s just lame.
The Force was strong with Kevin Millar and Manny Ramirez yesterday. Go Sox.
Pat W – Yeah, man!
How was Baltimore? We kept looking for you during the broadcast.
Awesome. What a cool city. We had a little too much fun on Sat. night after the game, so we were all dragging ass on Sun. The plane was full of Sox fans. All in all, it was a great trip. Definitly going back next year. Oh yeah, our seats were crazy. 13th row behind home plate on Sat. and 4th row behind 3rd base on Sun.
UGH I hate midichlorians, too. You take decades out of our lives to build up this nice “Hero with a Thousand Faces” mysterious religious world, and then fuck it all up with a demythologizing riff on pseudo-cell biology? UGH.
That really was when Star Wars jumped the shark for me, too.
Having said that, I’m *really* excited about ep.3.
so basically, the jedi have this extra chromosome that gives them the force. effectively, lucas is telling us that the jedi are inbred.
I guess that explains Luke and Leia’s kiss in Empire …
It’s been mentioned that Midichlorians are rather like the Thetons in Scientology, and that George had been secretly converted to the Church of Scientology after writer/directing the first couple of movies and had established himself as a power player.
Anyone care for a little conspiracy-theory (check the bottom of the page…)?
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=951