Do you think Lucas will mention mini-chloridians in the 3rd prequel?
Or was that a major New-age mistake
that he probably regrets slipping in there?
That’s midichlorians, for the record.
Carry on!
I suppose they have something to do with chlorophyll.
Whether he regrets it or not, there may not be any need to mention them again anyway. Where they mentioned in Ep 2?
[color=“purple”]Midichlorians are the worst thing ever to happen to Star Wars, next to George Lucas and Jar-Jar. First it diminished a great mystical power to some infestation that may or may not have anything to do with genetics. “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter” can not be quoted enough to diminish the mediocrity of Lucas’s invention. Also it implies that if one only has a certain level of midichlorians then that individual could never aspire to greater heights and if someone lacked midichlorians then they would never be able to aspire to being a jedi knight.
Of course Lucas is out of touch and unsuited to being a director.
http://events.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Movies-X!ArticleDetail-59894,00.html
If you want to get really technical, it’s midi-chlorians, with a dash. I found that out when my non-dashed search failed on starwars.com.
The compleat midi-chlorian:
I remember when the US Godzilla came out, its tagline was “Size Does Matter”. After it turned out to be crap, the Star Wars site put up the tagline “Story Does Matter” or something like that. If only he had meant it
Thanks, Revtim! Another piece of useless trivia to add to my embarrassingly vast collection. 
Midchlorians or not, the idea that only certain people were “strong in the Force” has been around from day one. Why else would Obi-Wan and Owen, for different reasons, care so much about Luke? If any shmoe could become a Jedi, then he wouldn’t be “our last hope”–Obi-Wan could just find another willing learner, preferrably someone without the family history of succumbing to temptation. Vader wouldn’t say “the Force is strong with this one” in the Death Star trench. Leia wouldn’t presume, pre-familial-connection, that she “could never have” Luke’s power.
There’s hundreds more examples if you allow the books and comics in, of course, most notably a mechanical device in Jedi Search which can test a person’s Force potential. I don’t think the story loses anything to the midi-chlorians, because it was never about “ordinary people” turning into Jedi. It was about a very elite group of people resisting the inherent temptation in such a rare power, or failing to do so.
What about the MIDI-chlorians?
Assuming only the information presented in Star Wars, before Lucas had even come up with the idea that Vader was Luke’s father:
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Owen cared about Luke because Luke’s father was a risk-taking adventurer who got himself killed by Darth Vader, and Owen was afraid Luke might follow in his father’s footsteps.
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During the Death Star attack, Vader sensed that the force was strong in Luke because Luke was being accompanied by the disembodied presence of the late Obi-Wan.
Even assuming the extra baggage added to the Star Wars franchise in The Empire Strikes Back: -
Obi-Wan’s disembodied spirit saw Luke as the last hope. Perhaps because Luke was the only living person, outside of Yoda, that Obi-Wan knew about who was interested in becoming a Jedi.
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Yoda said, “No, there is another.” This was likely a result of Yoda looking into the future, which he’d done earlier in the movie. (“Always in motion the future is.”)
It is not until Return of the Jedi that we are given any direct indication that Force-ability is something that runs in families.
And a good thing the jedi wipe it our by forbidding love, therefore no kids. no wonder the dark side is stronger, they are relying on random chance!
The MP3-chlorians sound better.
If they are a “microscopic life form” wouldn’t there be a virus?
But the MP3-chlorians are lossy. How about the FLAC-chlorians?
Okay, I’ll stop now.
Nothin much to add, I just had to have my 1138th post happen in a Star Wars-related thread.
Oh, and I think Uncle George is (wisely) pretending the midi-chlorian foolishness never happened…
Now if only George Lucas could pretend that he still had talent and the last two prequels never happened in the first place
Oh for a time machine, a map to the minefield surrounding Skywalker Ranch, and a bullhorn:
"Mr. Lucas! Put the Playstation controller down, switch off your game of Parasite Eve, and come out of the house. We understand you think you’ve just come up with a good plot twist, and we’d like to talk with you about the merits and more importantly, the flaws of it."