Hi, this is Eric. Hopefully you guys haven't gotten to the Midiclorians yet, but when I worked on Revenge of the Sith, we asked George one day about why the Midiclorians weren't mentioned in the original trilogy and his response

with something around the lines of, well, maybe the Jedi and quagon are wrong, implying that maybe the midplurians don't actually have anything to do with the

force and the Jedi have it all wrong. So take that for what it's worth.

Bye. Welcome back to Star Wars Minute. It's the Daily Podcast where we analyze, scrutinize, and celebrate

the Star Wars movies one minute at a time. I'm Pete the Retailer from Pete the Retailer.com.

I'm Alex Robinson from comicbook Alex.com.

I'm Joseph Scrimshaw. I exist on the internet and kind of in real life, but mostly on the internet.

As do we all.

Internet apparition Joseph Scrimshaw

is decided to join us.

And thanks for coming back again today.

I'm thrilled.

I know yesterday we didn't ask if you were going to come back today

but then we stayed at your place so

yeah so you can't get rid of us I mean we can go for a walk if you want I think that's a trick

okay that's a way I mean that's it's a trap yeah. Yes.

Wrong movie.

It's a trick.

D'Amat, Mark, get your line right.

Well, today we're not talking about Return to the Jedi.

We're talking about Star Wars episode one, The Phantom Menace, minute 52.

52 starts with Quaigon telling obiwan that no Jedi has a midoclarian count that high and this minute ends with

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