So, is maybe a twist too clever for George Lucas to have actually pulled off, but post-Disney buy out George admitted to his crazy “Fantastic Voyage” plot ideas for the sequels where the Midichlorians turn out to be tiny aliens (the Whills) and for whatever reasons some characters need to shrink into the bloodstream of a would be Jedi to chat with them.

It’s a weird twist certainly, but that raw idea isn’t entirely terrible: that these things that Jedi had thought they had almost a scientific understanding of that they are using Midichlorian counts thinking they can determine power levels when it’s a bit like deciding your Chosen One on the count of gut bacteria or deciding the most Chosen One of US cities must be New Orleans because it has the most people, in part because you tested it on Mardi Gras.

Again, I don’t think Lucas could have actually pulled off that twist and the 1970s acid trip sci-fi idea of “Fantastic Voyage to meet the Whills” is awful and likely would have made terrible sequels, but I appreciate that idea that Midichlorians were never intended to be read as genetic and were misunderstood by the Jedi.