The Phantom Menace/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** Also, why didn't the ''Jedi Council'' take more of a hand? You send two of your people as peace envoys and they're almost killed repeatedly, not only by the people they're meant to be envoys to, but also by a living example of your "extinct" mortal enemies, whilst protecting the legitimate ruler of a conquered planet...and you send the same two envoys back with no backup whatsoever? They didn't even send a memo to the Senate to beef up their envoys' credibility! These are the protectors of peace and justice in the galaxy after all!

*** The EU goes into this in a bit more detail, and even without it you can get a lot of the pertinent info from the canon. But basically: the Jedi have always viewed themselves as peacekeepers rather than soldiers, and have always been stretched thin. The Rise of the Empire era order takes these problems [[Up to Eleven]], both from the dwindling numbers and from the increased impracticality of their military training (take a look at the form they use in the Prequels as opposed to some of those out there), not unlike Picard's protesting against military training being a part of [[Star Fleet]] training in TNG in spite of the obviousobviousobvious threats, and this being played as a *GOOD* thing. Long story short: they probably would have eventually, but they were already committed elsewhere and probably not the best choices to go in if they were able to.

** The analogy comes from the stated fact that the more midi-chlorians one has, the more Force-sensitive they are, and the more powerful they are. It sounds like measuring how many HIV are in your blood before you have AIDS. Part of the frustration comes from the fact that Yoda, a beloved character who spent 800 years honing his skills as a Jedi, is immediately upstaged by a 10-year-old boy because his midi-chlorian count is higher. Training? Action? Discipline, skill? Doesn't matter, because this kid's midi-chlorian count is higher, so it's up to him to rule the fate of the galaxy. If we go meta, midi-chlorians can also be thought as part of the disease that began leaching from the Star Wars franchise with the making of this movie.

** Err, Anakin always had a freakishly high amount of raw power, but training, discipline and skill ''do'' matter, as should be made obvious by the end of Revenge of the Sith, where we see Anakin (who's high on the dark side at the time, making him even more powerful in the arena of general destruction) get beat by Obi-wan- an average-power Jedi who knows how to keep a level head in a fight and is an expert swordsman. Raw ability isn't everything- to use a real world example, just because someone has the highest IQ ever measured, that doesn't automatically mean that they're an expert in, say, theoretical physics. A midi-chlorian count just measures potential, not whether you've ''reached'' said potential.