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Star Wars Midichlorian Counts

Star WarsI don’t know how they came up with this, but Supershadow.com has a Star Wars Midichlorian Count List for the major Star Wars characters. For those of you don’t know what that is, Midichlorians are:

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.

Personally, I was extremely pissed off with this revelation when I first heard it in The Phantom Menace. 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 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).

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 trilogy, although I’ll admit that Revenge Of The Sith 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

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.

via Neatorama

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