[LMB] (Slightly) OT: Mitochondria (No spoilers) back on topic

[Scott Raun]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:58:30PM +0100, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote:
> He's keying off of the original _Star Wars_, and the retconned midichlorians.
> 
> Okay, but what in the original Star Wars has anything to do with blue
> milk?  And the who shot first?  I suppose power converters were in
> there somewhere, but I wouldn't have noticed or paid attention to
> them.  But I don't remember blue milk.  Nor the who shot first
> controversy.

Blue milk - when Luke is being served a meal by his aunt, there's a
container of what is apparently blue milk on the table.

Who shot first - Han Solo in the cantina in Mos Eisley. In the
original movie, Han shot first, in the ... updated version of a few
years ago, Greedo the bounty hunter shot first.

> How did they retcon the midichlorians?  I remember a bit more
> explanation in the newer movies, but nothing to clear things up. It
> was all still very vague to me.

They added midichlorians in as the technobabble explanation for
control over The Force in _The Phantom Menace_.  A number of people
have expressed a ... distaste for this added bit of explanation that
was not included in the original trilogy.

> -Tora, who is pretty sure Scott's "he" is referring to the Sundance
> Kid, but is also pretty sure the Sundance Kid is female (Heather?).

Could be - I'm using a generic he - the one you use when you don't
know the sex of the referenced individual.  I supposed I could have
rephrased it to use 'they'.

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org