Speaking of midi-chlorians: This is a good example of a case where not explaining and just keeping it magic would have been the better idea.
I know this is off-topic, but I actually liked the concept of midi-chlorians.
One of the biggest arguments I get into with fans of my generation is that the original films made you feel that anyone could be a Jedi. And that was simply not the case. Even in the original films, being a Jedi was something tied to lineage. One could not simply become a Jedi because they trained to be one. Han, for all his determination, could never be one. Wedge, for all his determination, could never be one.
Something made one person a potential Jedi - something that everyone else lacked.
Even as a child watching the original trilogy, I never liked the Force as just some mystic thing that some individuals could tap into and that others were mysteriously cut off from. It makes sense to me that there is a biological reason that Anakin's children have a connection to it - that Leia's children have a connection to it, but that Han did not.
I have never liked the "some people are wizards and some are not" with no explanation given as to why some people are wizards trope that permeates both fantasy and space opera. A reason exists why these individuals have power and why that power is passed down through bloodlines. Otherwise, it would always be random without a discernible or somewhat predictable lineage - there would be no guarantee that Anakin's children would be connected to the Force nor that they would inherit his power.
It also makes sense in terms of potential Jedi being identified at a very young age, and why some Jedi are going to be innately stronger than others from birth as opposed to merely being a better student. I also very much like the fact that this is knowledge that Luke didn't know and thus as an audience we didn't know - that's what happens when a great society falls and part of its knowledge is lost. Yoda and Obi-Wan passed on the information they felt Luke needed to defeat the Emperor in the scant handful of months he was under their tutelage and that was all they passed - the nuances of Jedi society and all their great sum of knowledge were lost. Their primary purpose was to defeat the Sith, not pass down all that the Jedi once knew - and they only passed down what they felt critical to that goal given the restraints of time (and that Luke prematurely ran off to Bespin).
I can argue how successfully or unsuccessfully the concept of the midi-chlorians was executed in the prequels to one degree or other, but I don't have fault with the concept itself.
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)? Well, maybe because that's the best place where they can see what's going on and they may want to get an idea of what the opposition is going to be if they are going to go into combat soon. So this is not really something that doesn't make sense, it's more something that is not fully elaborated on on screen.
