• Nobody@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    8 months ago

    My kid saw phantom menace for the first time today. He said, “That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    . . . And the Insta-Death of the narrative.

    Well. We’ll always have the first one.

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    8 months ago

    Honestly never understood the hate for midichlorians. It never bothered me or struck me as stupid, silly, whatever people call it.

      • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        8 months ago

        The criticism is that in creating the midichlorians the force became less metaphorical and more literal. Before TPM the reason the Emperor lost wasn’t because he had fewer “force points” than Luke or Vader it was because of a grander poetic narrative that some felt was cheapened by having the bigger number go brrrr

      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        8 months ago

        I mean, they were fairly unpopular among the fandom when the movie came out, and I think they are still somewhat unpopular.