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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9248206" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>For me? It's the perennial difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.</p><p></p><p>Star Trek is science fiction. Star Wars is fantasy in space.</p><p></p><p>The difference can be subtle for some people. But it's like... in the Orig Trig the Force was practically magic that a religion had been built around. Rogue One carried that forward -really- well. As did the Rey Saga. They don't try to ground the magic in the world it just -is- what you need it to be.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the books did the same thing. As did the games and comics. The Force worked the way it does because that's the way the Force works.</p><p></p><p>The prequels coming up with Midichlorians felt like trying to Trek the Wars. Trying to invent a science to explain away the magic and make it less Fantasy and more Sci-Fi. In that regard it was a betrayal not of what had been written... but of Genre.</p><p></p><p>Midichlorians being the true "Source of the Force" or the way people are able to interact with the Force doesn't change anything Mara Jade did, or invalidate anything. She's still the same character with the same stories and interactions.</p><p></p><p>So it doesn't erase anything to have Midichlorians. It just feels like an unnecessary touch which tries to make things less magical when the magicalness was part of the appeal.</p><p></p><p>While I get what you're saying, here, it's perhaps the greatest example of Retconning in the history of the world that we ABSOLUTELY CANNOT DISCUSS on these boards.</p><p></p><p>So I'll ask we drop the real-world-religious references, please.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9248206, member: 6796468"] For me? It's the perennial difference between Star Wars and Star Trek. Star Trek is science fiction. Star Wars is fantasy in space. The difference can be subtle for some people. But it's like... in the Orig Trig the Force was practically magic that a religion had been built around. Rogue One carried that forward -really- well. As did the Rey Saga. They don't try to ground the magic in the world it just -is- what you need it to be. A lot of the books did the same thing. As did the games and comics. The Force worked the way it does because that's the way the Force works. The prequels coming up with Midichlorians felt like trying to Trek the Wars. Trying to invent a science to explain away the magic and make it less Fantasy and more Sci-Fi. In that regard it was a betrayal not of what had been written... but of Genre. Midichlorians being the true "Source of the Force" or the way people are able to interact with the Force doesn't change anything Mara Jade did, or invalidate anything. She's still the same character with the same stories and interactions. So it doesn't erase anything to have Midichlorians. It just feels like an unnecessary touch which tries to make things less magical when the magicalness was part of the appeal. While I get what you're saying, here, it's perhaps the greatest example of Retconning in the history of the world that we ABSOLUTELY CANNOT DISCUSS on these boards. So I'll ask we drop the real-world-religious references, please. [/QUOTE]
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