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Minor point in case someone asks: he mentions "Werner’s granular meclosis". I think he might be thinking of a transient mention he heard once of Wegener's granu
by killjoywashere 10y ago
Minor point in case someone asks: he mentions "Werner’s granular meclosis". I think he might be thinking of a transient mention he heard once of Wegener's granulomatosis, but he's probably just making something up. Sort of like George Lucas might have been naming midichlorians after mitochondria, and misremembered the word, but it didn't really matter, and it's probably better this way in both cases.
- eutectic 10y agoOr maybe it's a transcription error.
- stevenwoo 10y agoMidichlorians versus mitochondria, arguably either are actually wretched because he is saying being a Jedi is a genetic gift and no one else is eligible. It's no different than the tradition of being suitable for ruling a country solely by accident of birth via the European Middle Ages monarchies.
- tnecniv 10y agoWas "force sensitivity" not a concept before Episode I? I'm a Star Trek guy.
- throwanem 10y agoNot outside the mostly deuterocanonical, and sometimes outright apocryphal, "Expanded Universe". I think Episode I was the first time anyone postulated a mechanism.
- dwringer 10y agoFirst, I can't imagine Lucas was confused between the two words. Second, in reply to your point, midichlorians were not used to judge someone's suitability for ruling, and even if they had been that would be a societal attribute of a fictional setting - not a prescription for reality. They were simply a scientific measure of force sensitivity, at least as depicted in the movie. Would it be wrong in your view to associate bigger lungs with increased breath capacity? Again, that is merely a physical attribute.