Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

This is by far my most hated point of the prequel trilogy.

It took it from a pretty awesome, magical thing to bacteria level. Totally, totally, totally sucked.

 

Agreed. IF Anakin needed to have built one of the droids (for whatever story purpose), I thought it should be R2-D2. Anakin always wanted to be a pilot and see the stars. He lives in a starship junkyard. It seems like it fits to have him construct a rather quirky and unique astromech droid out of various parts. C-3PO would have fit in well as a protocol droid on Padme's ship.

 

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Grrr, Imrahil

 

You are all welcome to join me in my own personal head canon of what is going on with the midiclorians.

They don't produce the force, or anything like that, they are just attracted to strong force users, so the stronger with the force you are, the more congregate in your blood.

One thing the prequels were supposed to show, but largely failed, was the old, stagnant Jedi order, and I use midiclorians as part of that narrative. Sometime long in the past the Jedi figured out they could get a sense of a person's connection with the force by looking at the number of midiclorians in them, then over the generations it turned into thinking they were what actually powered the force.

 

Also how has nobody listed Anakin's virgin birth as one of the stupidest things in the prequels?

 

Wow… I don’t even remember that one…

 

Ahhhh... the good stuff!

 

Spreading chaos by killing the cute things

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Looks like the prequels are taking a verbal beating and are in dire need of their greatest defender. Time for my new favourite meme template...


@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl

 

I like this explanation. I will also add this to my head canon.

+1 to this.

I can think of two conclusions:

1) mitochlorians (mini chlorines? mitti cloridians? mido corodonodians?) actually do have and generate force powers and were so present in Shmi that they somehow generated the requisite y-chromosome genetic material not previously present in her body (females have two x-chromosomes) to cause a surprise virgin pregnancy.

2) she is lying about the virgin-birth thing. I mean, if you look in the wiki in one of the various star wars fan sites it states she grew up as a slave and amongst pirates, and the only reason they kept the girl alive despite being an extra mouth to feed was to perform "essential" services to them. Really horrible life to live.

I have never been a jedi, but I am surprised Qui-gon (or however you spell his name) didn't come to conclusion #2 as it makes a bit more sense to me.

Regardless she seems to come from a family with extreme force sensitivity... wonder how that came about? Medical experiments? Good genes? Where did the rest of her family go after her parents were lost?

Never saw that one before

 

I like this a lot. I've added it to my head.

 

Sadly, based on the story of the prequels and the sequels, the line of Skywalker is technically the line of Palpatine. In the opera scene, I gathered that Palpatine is alluding to the fact that he created Anakin from the force. Apparently, midichlorians or not, Palpatine is the really strong source of the Force (hey, that rhymes) in all the movies. His "progeny" are super powerful Force users, able to pick it up quicker (Anakin) and/or just be great right away (Rey).

 

The first iteration was here


More of them will be created... as the need arises!