{"id":12176,"date":"2007-01-19T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/19\/star-wars-midichlorian-counts\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T14:47:00","slug":"star-wars-midichlorian-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/19\/star-wars-midichlorian-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Midichlorian Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Star<\/a>I don’t know how they came up with this, but Supershadow.com<\/i> has a Star Wars<\/i> Midichlorian Count List for the major Star Wars<\/i> characters<\/a>. For those of you don’t know what that is, Midichlorians<\/a> are:<\/p>\n

microscopic life-forms that reside within the cells of almost all living things and communicate with the Force. Midi-chlorians comprise a collective consciousness and intelligence, forming links between everything living and the Force. They are symbionts with all other living things; that is, without them, life could not exist. The Jedi have learned how to listen to and coordinate the midi-chlorians. If they quiet their minds, they can hear the midi-chlorians speaking to them, telling them the will of the Force. In order to be a Jedi or a Sith, one must have a high concentration of midi-chlorians in one’s cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I was extremely pissed off with this revelation when I first heard it in The Phantom Menace<\/i><\/a>. I never really expected a detailed explanation for Jedis’ use of The Force from George Lucas. From what I gathered from the original Star Wars<\/i> trilogy, I viewed it as an ability that some people had to tap into an almost-mystical pervasive energy binding all life together. Why some were more adept than others wasn’t really clear, but I didn’t expect Jedis’ abilities to be explained as basically a random massive infection of some fake-sounding organism (albeit one whose name was obviously somewhat appropriately tied to that of mitochondria<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After watching the prequel trilogy, I eventually overcame my disappointment and resigned myself to the fact that George Lucas had not come up with additional masterpieces to complement the original, classic Star Wars<\/i> trilogy, although I’ll admit that Revenge Of The Sith<\/i><\/a> wasn’t too horrible. However, this half-assed Midichlorian concept casts a shadow over the entire series, ruining in my mind the whole concept of Jedi; quite a kick in the nuts if you ask me. :-p<\/p>\n

Now that I’m done with my rant (for now), I figured I might as well mention that a scientist who discovered microbes living in mitochondria named the new organisms Midichloria mitochondrii<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

via Neatorama<\/a><\/div>\n

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