The fact that prequelcels STILL deny that midichlorians reduced the Force to space-blood magic is definite proof of how irredeemably awful the prequels are. It’s right there in The Phantom Menace. Qui-Gon literally whips out a space razor and says Anakin’s Force potential is off the charts because of his midichlorian count. And yet, to this day, prequelcels act like that scene is a collective hallucination. “A-ackchually midichlorians aren't the force!” they cry, as if George Lucas didn’t turn a mystical energy field into something that can be observed and measured with a microscope. The denial is Olympic-level mental gymnastics. At some point, you just have to admit: the prequels completely ruined Star Wars, and no amount of revisionist fan theories can change what’s on screen.
The fact that prequelcels STILL deny that midichlorians reduced the Force to space-blood magic is definite proof of...
jedi in the prequels lack spirituality and have devised ways to quantify holiness
not introduced as a way to show to the audience that these Jedi are fundamentally different from the ideal image embodied by Luke
Work on your ability to read
are midichlorians ever mentioned again?
the prequels suck on purpose!! having Jedis be boring and shit was the ENTIRE POINT of the ebbin story
Another weird standard reply from prequelcels
Lucas said that his plan for the Sequel theory was entirely about the Midichlorians and other single-cell organisms involved in creating the force
the Jedi in the prequels are extremely boring, soulless characters who are almost comically incompetent
UMMM THAT IS ON PURPOSE TO SHOW THAT THE JEDI ORDER HAD BECOME CORRUPT BY THE TIME OF THE END OF THE REPUBLIC!!!
they speak entirely in monotone and show zero emotion, it’s like watching a senate hearing acted out by mannequins
YES EXACTLY!!! THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DETACHED FROM EMOTION!!! IT’S DEEP LORE STUFF YOU WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND!!!
but even when they're supposed to be passionate—like Anakin yelling about Padmé—it sounds like he's reading a cereal box
GEORGE LUCAS WANTED IT TO SOUND ARTIFICIAL, IT’S A STYLISTIC CHOICE TO EVOKE 1930s RADIO DRAMAS!!!
Yoda literally leads a clone army into battle, which directly contradicts the Jedi's philosophy
THAT’S ACTUALLY HIM FAILING ON PURPOSE TO SHOW THE TRAGEDY OF THE ORDER’S FALL!!! YOU JUST DON'T GET CINEMA!!!
Palpatine’s plan only works because every Jedi is too blind or stupid to see he’s evil
THAT’S A COMMENTARY ON COMPLACENCY IN RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND YOU’RE JUST TOO SHALLOW TO APPRECIATE IT!!!
you mean to tell me that Obi-Wan never once thought to check in on Anakin’s emotional stability?
IT’S BECAUSE THE JEDI ARE BAD AT PARENTING, IT’S A SATIRE OF BAD PARENTING IN MONASTIC ORDERS IN SPACE!!!
they have the Force, they literally sense things, how did no one notice Palpatine until it was too late?
BECAUSE THE FORCE ITSELF WAS OUT OF BALANCE, IT WAS ALL PART OF THE PROPHECY, READ WOOKIEPEDIA SOMETIME!!!
the prequels are a mess of tone, pacing, and flat characters with awkward romantic tension
NO THEY’RE ACTUALLY A GENIUS TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS AND YOU JUST LACK THE MEDIA LITERACY TO GET IT
No.
Cool that means George Lucas never introduced them in the first place. Checkmate, Plinkett Disneyshills!
I used to be mad about that, then I read the Darth Plagueis novel and saw it for what it was: a demonstrable condemnation of the Jedi's clinical parochialism about the Force.
can't be a mystical force because it takes place in the same universe as us.
Ackchually you need to read some SW novels to understand that it sucked on purpose!!
The cope never ends
anakin: are midichlorians the force?
qui gon: no
Actual dialogue every OTfag somehow misses
Palpatine brings them up when reciting the Tragedy that Reach the Man.
Lucas is a poor enough storyteller one has to read what others write in order to fill in the gaps in logic.
i say all of this to myself, much like you do
boring
That's your opinion.
What they were depicted as was something different, which I pointed out; causing you to seethe like a bitch
Write like a normal person that is not melting down
Anyone that played Parasite Eve as a kid simply nodded when the prequel series came out and they revealed the midichlorians stuff as an explanation for how people could use the force. Everyone else simply forgot this is a SCIENCE FICTION series of movies
ackchually midichlorians aren't the force
Because they are, in fact, not the Force and now you gotta cope with the fact people like you misinterpreted that fact for 20 years until people started correcting you and you got mad over it. Reminder there was never nothing wrong with them unless you were a RLM-grade retard mad that the movies you grew up with and based your personality around got their lore expanded with complementary themes
"Midichlorians are a microscopic lifeform that reside within all living cells"
"They live inside of me?"
"Inside your cells, yes. And we are symbionts with the midichlorians"
"Symbionts?"
"Life forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midichlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force"
"Telling us the will of the Force". As in, the midichlorians were only ever the conduit for the Force, not the Force itself. Retarded YT critics 15 years ago got confused and thought they were said to be the Force when in reality they were just *the explanation for Force Sensitivity*: why some had the potential to be Jedi and others not. Qui-Gon's words, when analyzed, really are not that different from Ben Kenobi's own "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together". If anything it just adds a footnote at the end by going "so yeah the *way* it's created within all living things is cells btw". That's it. And contrary to popular opinion they didn't reinforce the notion that your bloodline exclusively determined your potential in the Force; they did just the opposite, precisely because the explanation was not genetic. What the Prequels did was introduce the idea that the Force could choose youhence Chosen One
It's funny because even with this reasonable explanation, midichlorians are fucking retarded
Not really stranger than mitochondria itself influencing life
that's only because they didn't let george cook with the whills
Prequel fans are not normal people.
I don't know, I guess. Like is mitochondria telling me about the will of my bowels?
The force is a magical force that exists everywhere in the universe. A Midichlorian count tests a person's sensitivity to the force. Force powers were always heritable, otherwise Luke wouldn't have been important at all, and the "new hope" could have come from anywhere.
It changes literally nothing.
Yeah. No one thinks the midis are the Force. You're actually a dumb person for thinking that. They are, however, completely useless to the idea of the Force at all. You don't need them to explain anything. They literally, literally, add nothing.
It's techno-babble. Standard science fiction convention(you're just supposed to kind of ignore it and think "well that sounds sciencey, and the person saying it must be very clever"). Don't ever watch Star Trek, or steam will come out of your ears.
A big problem with a lot of Star Wars fans is they're turbo normies, who only like turbo normie entertainment, and whenever Star Wars gets "a bit weird" they can't deal with it. I was watching Lexx when I was a kid, and reading Dune when I was a teenager, so midichlorians never struck me as an offense.
No one thinks the midis are the Force
You'd be fucking surprised
In the Phantom Menance, the idea of midichlorians serve two purposes: they show us that before they were creepy old men hanging around in caves, the Jedi used to be quite sophisticated (and maybe that they had lost their way spiritually, if you want to go for that kind of a reading), and they give Qui-Gon a specific reason to take interest in Anakin.
It's a simple plot device. Just get over it.
We do not have a mystical energy field in our universe. But mitochondria are the building block enabling sentient life as we know it.
Midichlorians as a concept essentially means "something separate from us that we can't live without", which again is part of that universal interconnected mess that Lucas wants to emphasize
Medieval monks and theologians were at the forefront of the sciences in their day.
pretty sure in the disney+ era of star wars, we've only heard the term "midichlorian" once
every other time it was the "m-count" bullshit
They literally, literally, subtract nothing.
But we do have a mystical energy field though
We do not have a mystical energy field in our universe
Its called the Higgs field. Try to keep up mang
We do not have powers. Psychic superpowers
akshaully....
he doesn't know
idk man my mom can somehow always tell when i haven't showered in a while
Lol this nigga doesn't know
Midichlorians are not the force, Mike.
The audience seethed incredibly hard about them and would never shut up, so George dropped them