Yet you sure seem to have no problem taking to the internet in a movies defense:lol
I’m not even defending the movie, I’m pointing out these attack’s on the people making the movies and the idea they are pushing an agenda are dumb.
Yet you sure seem to have no problem taking to the internet in a movies defense:lol
I can however suggest a critical review I watched awhile ago by MauLer from youtube and highly recommend it to everyone for its cathartic properties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7pcCj0ORk
There was no SW film when TLJ was put on screen. It was nothing but dumb jokes, Luke tossing the graphlex over his shoulder, Luke being a depressed psycho, BS about about Poe being emasculated , dumb middle part about people making a profit off of weapons, Space horses retardation, and endless persist across the galaxy, Mary Poppins Leia, Luke projecting himself and being written off like a bitch. Oh and porgs... what a nightmare TLJ was and is.
Midichlorians aren't necessary for the mythology, but they don't offend me.
It took them as pseudoscience that the Jedi bought into.They offend me and most other classic Star Wars fans because they just arbitrarily altered the whole operation of the Force for no reason. That's why they died a quiet death after TPM and good riddance. It's just one more place where nobody dared to tell George Lucas that his ideas are really, really stupid.
I don't mind the midichlorians. They aren't actually the force, just a small being that can understand it.
Midi-chlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all living cells and communicates with the Force. [...] Without the midi-chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to you, telling you the will of the Force.
Except, per Qui-Gon,
Despite our after-the-fact scrambling to have them just be a secondary way to measure someone's Force-use potential, George obviously intended them to be much more directly essential to the whole thing. Not saying I like that -- I don't -- but there it sits, unable to be overwritten.
I'll readily admit I'm a sucker for retconning that seems even remotely plausible. The "tech" part of Star Wars has always been my favorite part, and any excuse to bring something new into the fold and have it doing whatever, no matter how seemingly illogical, is still met with a seven year old's eyes that loves something cool looking going pew-pew.
But I'm not even a half hour into this video and not only am I facepalming, but I'm thinking I need to buy the TLJ DVD as a means of atonement. Going in spoiler-free opening night, I truly felt that I was going in prepared for anything; now I see that despite still being disappointed, I now have even more reasons to disappointed, due to setting the bar so low in the first place and giving it the benefit of the doubt while watching it. Serves me right.
Good word choice, calling that video cathartic. Some six months removed, there is still relief in feeling a sense of community.
EDIT: The more I watch, the more I see that this video needs to be required viewing for all Star Wars fans. Good stuff (even though it's a shame it needed to be made).
It took them as pseudoscience that the Jedi bought into.
During the prequels, the Jedi we're at the top of their game. They we're so full of themselves that they needed to justify their power in society.
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Which might be a defensible position to take if they weren't using medical tests that showed that midichlorians were real. It isn't a justification, it's a demonstrated reality, at least within TPM. After that, due to fan outrage, they just didn't talk about it again.
OR, it's like when they make you hold those rods to measure your thetans.
I’m not even defending the movie, I’m pointing out these attack’s on the people making the movies and the idea they are pushing an agenda are dumb.
Except, per Qui-Gon,
Despite our after-the-fact scrambling to have them just be a secondary way to measure someone's Force-use potential, George obviously intended them to be much more directly essential to the whole thing. Not saying I like that -- I don't -- but there it sits, unable to be overwritten.
Behind the scenes, I think George always had this concept about how the Force worked.
"It is an energy field and something more," Kenobi went on, almost mystically. " An aura that at once controls and obeys. It is a nothingness that can accomplish miracles." He looked thoughtful for a moment.
"No one, not even the Jedi scientists, were able to truly define the force[sic]. Possibly no one ever will. Sometimes there is as much magic as science in the explanations of the force. Yet what is a magician but a practicing theorist? Now, let's try again."
Maybe he was dumbing down a very complicated concept as if explaining it to a child...