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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1694696" data-attributes="member: 5171">But that's not what I want.  "Not mentioned" doesn't satisfy me, because I know that it's still the default.  In "Empire Strikes Back", Master Yoda should help Luke gain confidence by saying, "There, there.  Readings I have taken.  Enough midichlorians you have the X-Wing to lift."What I want is for Episode 3 to have Senator Palpatine say, "Ignorant fools!  You had no idea how powerful I was, because you measured the power of the Force in midichlorians.  They are only microorganisms attracted to the Force, not a measure of the Force itself.  By simple medical treatments I cleansed them from my system, so that none of you would ever know the extent of my dark power!"  Explain it and then give us a legitimate reason to put it in the closet and never look at it again.And while we're on the subject of ruining the Star Wars universe...Kevin J. Anderson.This is probably a matter of taste.  I was so jazzed after the Zahn books came out -- the Force was handled well as a beautiful and mysterious thing.  And then Anderson comes in and gives us a headset that can measure the Force in people, as well as Luke throwing out inappropriate Yoda quotes and letting his Jedi students become Sith masters under his nose, all the while throwing out more and more powerful Force stuff that turned Star Wars into Dragonball Z.One of my favorite comebacks is the Zahn two-book series that essentially serves as a response to Anderson.  Luke gets ready to mind-control some Imperials or rip their Tie-Fighter control systems apart from miles away, and he sees the ghost of the Emperor laughing at him.  And when he talks to Mara Jade about it, she says, "Duh!  Look at all the screwups you've had while using the Force in more and more physical ways.  You let your students turn into Sith masters!"  Zahn also retcons the entire section where Anderson ignores what Zahn had previously set up between Mara and Luke in order to have Lando and Mara hook up by having Mara inform Luke that it was just a big trick they were using to travel incognito.That is how you redeem a universe.(At least until the prequels came out.)</blockquote>

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