Midichlorians worse than anything in the ST

Think of them as connector receptacles for the Whills.
On a mixing board for music, right, you are limited by the total lines you can hook into that mixing board (roughly speaking).
So, the more connection receptacles you have (lines in), the more instruments can "hook" into it and "make" music via the mixing board.

In a sort of similar fashion, Lucas' idea of midi's was that the more a person has of these microbial lifeforms, the more "lines in" the Whills have to "hook into" the person to "make" the cosmic opera that is the universe.

In Lucas' words, "we" are like vehicles for the Whills, and the midi's are the way the Whills connect to their "vehicles" (us). And the Whills are the, in short, sort of hippy-like super cosmic controllers and maintainers of the universe. A sort of god-like collective that is the universe itself.

It's super cool in concept as a sort of hippy one-with-the-nature-of-the-cosmos kind of way, but it does present a troubling interpretation for, say, Luke making his big moral choice in the throne room. Because if he has a bunch of microbes in him that allow the Whills to take him for a spin like a vehicle, how much free will was his in that choice and how much was the Whills "steering" him?

Inversely, it gets really muddy. Dark Force users also have midichlorian microbes living inside of them. The Whills therefore also have connection to them as well to use as "vehicles". Are they rogue vehicles like self-driving cars going wrong, or are the Whills also "riding" them around according to a cosmic opera?
And if so, how bad are the bad guys if cosmic near-parasitic super beings are in some manner influencing their moral trajectories?

I would say that Lucas would clear this all up in his later movies, but he does unfortunately have a history of not really doing that very well and letting it fall to Lucasfilm to release follow up material that goes into explaining away all of the oddities that the movies cause. The problem there is the vast majority of the population on this planet would never see such material or hunt down Lucas' interviews where he explains his ideas. Instead, they would see the movies, take them at mostly face value interpretation, then a bit of second layer interpretation maybe via discussions and social media et. al. and that's about it.

What is most likely is that, regardless how well he articulated the idea or not, there would be a very sizable kick back of hate thrown at him over him continuing into the sequel series in the manner in which he was thinking about doing with exposing the Whills and midichlorian system much more deeply and showing that everything in Star Wars was ultimately about the Whills. The great cosmic beings through which all are connected, and essentially - whether he looks at it this way or not - governed.

Again, it's a really fascinating idea. It's just one that would work a heck of a lot better being unfolded up front rather than sprinkled in at the tail end of things decades apart from each audience generation's understandings of the meanings of the movies.

It's a bit like having Jesus be a guy who has to choose to be sacrificed for everyone's salvation by adopting his place with God, and then decades later finding out that Jesus was inhabited by the Holy Spirit who sort of drove him through his mortal actions, and then a decade later finding out that Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are all one in the same being - just different sides of a three-sided coin.

If you are the recipient of that story a hundred years later, no real big problem. If you lived through the evolution of that story and started where Jesus was just a guy who had to make a choice... there can be a big problem.

Cheers,
Jayson

 

This is veritually every schism in and fight for the future of early Christianity, the -- how the heck do we interpret all this weird stuff -- and it was a bitter conflict indeed, I can tell you... rather like the schisms in Star Wars fandom, one could say

Excellent analysis, @Jayson

 

Cheers,
Jayson

 

Oh, you've got photographic evidence of the early schism? I didn't know that existed! Very cool
I wonder which of these are Valentinians, Sethians, and Arianists, or are these Irenaeus and his mob?

 

You know....'midchlorians' as a word makes me think of the stuff they put in swimming pools to disinfect the waters....