Speaking as someone who only saw the movies and never read any of the EU:
I never really got the midichlorian hate either. If I recall correctly, it just cropped up once, when they were testing the level for Anakin. In the webcomic El Goonish Shiv, a Star Wars fan protests the concept on the basis that it was completely pointless. In a world set up like the Star Wars universe, audiences will just accept that there's a mystic thing like the Force that lets the characters summon stuff and do backflips and whatever. Adding medichlorians just needlessly complicates the issue. (The webcomic does use this as a set-up to poke fun at how the current story arc is doing just that - making a needless explanation for a magical object in that fictional world)
(Incidentally, your reaction is basically how I feel about the whole OMG REFRIGERATOR thing for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Yes, people, that wouldn't work in real life. In real life, the Nazis never had their faces melted off by the Ark of the Covenant. Deal.)
If I remember right, Lucas was very fond of greenscreens and CGI because he had so many problems filming on location for earlier movies. I don't mind CGI personally, but I can see where it can be annoying if it's over-used pointlessly.
Not sure why the idea of Han shooting first would be so offensive. Like you said, he was facing a dude who clearly had harmful intentions towards him. Han was being set up as a badass outlaw-type. It wasn't until he'd hung out with Luke and Leia that he started to be close to idealistic or more noble. Shooting before he could be shot would have been perfectly in-character.
As for the Jedi thing, I kind of got the impression that their attitude was a result of an ideology going wrong. By the time we see them in the movies, they're so far in the rut going the wrong way, that they've screwed themselves over. The two Jedi in the movies that tried to act differently where Qui-Gon and Luke. Qui-Gon tried to get both Anakin and his mother freed, which would have kept Anakin from going dark. Luke repeatedly went against what he was told (left his training earlier, refused to kill Vader, etc) and ended up bringing about an end to the Sith and redeeming his father.
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Date: 2012-11-06 05:02 pm (UTC)I never really got the midichlorian hate either. If I recall correctly, it just cropped up once, when they were testing the level for Anakin. In the webcomic El Goonish Shiv, a Star Wars fan protests the concept on the basis that it was completely pointless. In a world set up like the Star Wars universe, audiences will just accept that there's a mystic thing like the Force that lets the characters summon stuff and do backflips and whatever. Adding medichlorians just needlessly complicates the issue. (The webcomic does use this as a set-up to poke fun at how the current story arc is doing just that - making a needless explanation for a magical object in that fictional world)
(Incidentally, your reaction is basically how I feel about the whole OMG REFRIGERATOR thing for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Yes, people, that wouldn't work in real life. In real life, the Nazis never had their faces melted off by the Ark of the Covenant. Deal.)
If I remember right, Lucas was very fond of greenscreens and CGI because he had so many problems filming on location for earlier movies. I don't mind CGI personally, but I can see where it can be annoying if it's over-used pointlessly.
Not sure why the idea of Han shooting first would be so offensive. Like you said, he was facing a dude who clearly had harmful intentions towards him. Han was being set up as a badass outlaw-type. It wasn't until he'd hung out with Luke and Leia that he started to be close to idealistic or more noble. Shooting before he could be shot would have been perfectly in-character.
As for the Jedi thing, I kind of got the impression that their attitude was a result of an ideology going wrong. By the time we see them in the movies, they're so far in the rut going the wrong way, that they've screwed themselves over. The two Jedi in the movies that tried to act differently where Qui-Gon and Luke. Qui-Gon tried to get both Anakin and his mother freed, which would have kept Anakin from going dark. Luke repeatedly went against what he was told (left his training earlier, refused to kill Vader, etc) and ended up bringing about an end to the Sith and redeeming his father.
Erm, sorry if I don't make sense. ^^;