On measuring the Force (Score 1)

I agree that medichloridians are a simple, let downish, answer to a complex, seemingly unanswerable question. However, there are two important thoughts to keep in mind... First is the audience. Lucas, just like you and I, would like to make as much money as possible for doing the least amount of work. Simple answers to complex questions make it possible for a ten year old kid to understand what the hell is going on in the movie. 100,000 ten year old kids paying $6-$8 for a ticket is good money. If you were George, would you sacrifice audience size (cash money) for the sake of keeping all the die hard Star Wars super fans totally happy? Probably not... Second, the refernces to the systematic genocide of the jedi in later novels. The Empire used medichloridian measuring machines to screen every individual on the planets they occupied during the Clone Wars. If you could manipulate the force, they would kill you. Measuring the Force was a part of the story line long before the Phantom Manace was even becoming a reality... We're talking 9-10 years ago. Just check out the sequel trilogy (episodes 7,8 and 9). The Clone Wars and jedi genocide is described in detail throughout these and many of the other Star Wars novels.

Anyways, these movies aren't about 100% stick to the laws of physics and get everything in the plot to fit together 100%! Have some fricking fun! Sit back and enjoy yourself. Many of you called in sick to watch this... How could you let anything that convinced 2.4 million working Americans to skip work be a bad thing?