Star Wars: 5 things we want to be erased from canon instead of The Last Jedi

1. There is no excuse for Midichlorians

This one is just stupid. Give us one good reason Anakin Skywalker doesn’t have a father. There’s absolutely no need to have his existence explained as an immaculate conception caused by an abundance of magic cells. It’s just utterly bizarre, uninteresting, and unnecessary.

At this point, maybe the entire prequel series was unnecessary. It could have been so good but my goodness, the execution.

As Dork Side of the Force points out, midichlorians also appear in Madeline L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time. They are “cells inside living beings” and they are present in every Force user, according to The Phantom Menace at least.

But Dork Side of the Force also points to an article by Charlie Anders at io9 called “The Real Problem with Midichlorians”.  The eponymous real problem is, yet again, continuity. They contradict everything we were already told about The Force.

In A New Hope, Obi Wan tells Luke that the Force is “an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together…. A Jedi can feel the force flowing through him.”

As Anders says, “midichlorians actually contradict this explanation. All of a sudden, instead of there being an energy field that “binds the galaxy together,” there are little microscopic life forms inside of the Jedi, allowing them to… do what?”

Quite.

However, George Lucas’ terrible memory notwithstanding, there’s still no good reason to not give Anakin a father. Could he not have been a Jedi who betrayed the code and slept with Shmi only to abandon her?

Would this not have been an interesting footnote in Anakin’s past, contrasting with his deep love of Padmé and yet another example of why the Jedi Code is unfair? Would it not explain Qui-Gon Jinn’s feeling of responsibility towards Anakin because he is a Jedi and he was abandoned by one?

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Disney, hire us to rewrite the prequels. We have so many ideas.