10 Worst Reveals In Movie Prequels

10. Midi-What-Now? - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

One of the first head-scratching moments of George Lucas' The Phantom Menace for many fans, was the reveal that the dreamy otherworldly magic and mystique of The Force was instead a cold, hard matter of science.

In the original Holy Trilogy of movies, the very concept of The Force was introduced - with that being a power and ability that was, as shown in the case of Leia, often one that a person didn't even know they had.

By the time of 1999's The Phantom menace, however, it was revealed that The Force could be detected by testing somebody's midi-chlorian count. Simply put, the higher the midi-chlorian count, the more powerful a person would be.

With it being possible to run this test on anyone and everybody, that means that the mystery of The Force and users of The Force was stripped back in place of instead revealing how a simple science-based biological test could give a distinctive yay or nay as to what abilities someone may have within them, and how powerful those abilities could become if harnassed in the right or wrong way.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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First Posted On: 12th Aug 2020

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