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Originally Posted by N-E-B
I never understood why people got so butthurt over midichlorians. All it is to me is a way to explain why some folks can use the force and others can’t.
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I get why people get upset, it does remove some of the mysticism of the force. It removes the idea of the energy field that surrounds us and binds the galaxy together concept and replaces it with parasitic blood cells that talk and interpret the will of the force.
To me it was a good idea in terms of answering the question, how do we know how powerful someone is, how do we quantify that Anakin was the chosen one, because Fans for some reason want to know in almost hard numbers. They just can't accept it, and having Anakin pulling planets together would be groan worthy.
When you look at how they measured power in the books legend and otherwise.
in the Force unleashed they completely over powered the force when Star Killer pulled down a Star Destroyer.
In books that talked about the ancient jedi's they had Sith creating super novas, pulling planets together, and simply mind murdering thousands. Even Palpatine became too powerful, when he was creating massive Force Storms.
In one of the EU books a group of Novice Jedi's pushed a super star destroyer out of the Star System.
At one point I think in the Jedi Knight Academy trilogy, they tried to quantify Force Powers by making it a mutation in the brain that made you able to access the force, and the Empire had a way to scan people to find this nub.
Could Midichlorians been executed better? Absolutely.
Honestly until the ROS the one thing I liked about the new Canon books and even the movies was that they tempered Force Powers. You were faster, you could anticipate your opponents moves ahead of time, and you could get some insight into the future and past via visions. But while Ray was over powered for one not formally trained, she wasn't pulling planets out of orbit and playing pinball with Star Ships.
However that Palpatine lightning destruction of the Rebels was to me was to over powered and silly.