revisiting well-known lore for nostalgia’s sake (or at times to overexplain it). But in a way, Lucas did this first too with the Prequel Trilogy and additions like midi-chlorians being responsible for the Force
The machete order has a lot going for it and may very well be the best way to introduce a new fan to Star Wars. It keeps safe many of the franchise’s best reveals so they deliver the same punch. Showcasing the prequels in this way adds depth to characters like Vader, Yoda, Obi-...
. He decided that Darth Vader needed a deep origin story (he didn’t!) and also that the Force needed more explaining (again, everything was fine!). And so with 1999’sThe Phantom Menace, Lucas went deep into both — by introducing the rather exhausting concept of “midichlorians.”...
Qui-Gon then Jedisplained that symbionts are “life forms, living together for mutual advantage” adding that, “without the midichlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force.” As Obi-Wan Kenobi noted at one point in thePhantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker has...