midi-chlorians

• “Sure, not everyone is going to relate to his observation that chi and midi-chlorians may in fact be the same thing.”

  The Huffington Post: Derek Beres: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

• “Just when you think we squoze (yes, that's a word) the blogosphere dry, we've added a new "SF Signal Irregular", His name is Pete Tzinski and while you trying to figure out if you liked Watchmen, he posted part 1 of an article that will make your midi-chlorians spin: Why the Star Wars Prequels Are Actually Good (Part 1).”

  March 2009

• “It wasn't lazy writing at all, no sir, it was midi-chlorians.”

  What Would You Like to See From The New Star Trek?

• “Kirk must be stuffed full of midi-chlorians -- that's why he has so many ridiculously improbable coincidences, close calls and last-minute saves.”

  What Would You Like to See From The New Star Trek?

• “Try to explain the significance of this remark to people outside the beltway and their eyes would glaze over like you were elaborating on the relationship between midi-chlorians and force sensitivity to a first date.”

  The Washington Post: Palin says nothing in particular about Egypt, still gets headlines

• “Also, this is blessedly ~3500 years before midi-chlorians were realized.”

  EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Hey George…you should have let Bioware make Episodes 1 2 and 3.

• “As lame as midi-chlorians are and as bad as all the awfulness they lead to (the 'royal' blood to be a Jedi, Annakin's miracle birth), the series didn't jump the shark here because it had already been jumped.”

  When Did Star Wars Jump The Shark?

• “And with the example that Carlton gave of the midi-chlorians and how unnecessary it was to explain how the Force works, there are some explanations that if given are not only disappointing but are also very uninteresting.”

  Lost News: Not All Will Be Explained By the End, Franchise May Live On | /Film

• “The study, which made use of mitchondrial DNA,Or midi-chlorians, depending on your movie taste. showed that the human population of the planet was nearly destroyed during the early stone age, with perhaps as few as 2000 members of the species left alive in Africa: before Global Cooling returned and allowed the expansion of the human race to its present-day numbers.”

  Climate Change, Human Destruction and Bikinis

• “He is often confused or inaccurate about the details of science fiction televisions shows and films he mentions – he seems unaware that the new Battlestar Galactica is neither a continuation nor a remake of the earlier series from the late 70s (p.168), and he calls the midi-chlorians from Star Wars “midi-chlorines” (p.184).”

  Archive 2008-07-01

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