Re: questionable conception

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:c0OPj.203$506.178@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:_vzPj.9658$V14.5506@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>> In article <02dPj.3522$h75.3149@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>> In article <1208801575@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Wayne Throop
>>>>>> <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Apparently, he doesn't know who's conception was
>>>>>>>>>>> immaculate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A****in Skywalker's?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, Shmi Skywalker.  She was born without the original
>>>>>>>>> defect that
>>>>>>>>> normally suppresses midichlorian development in fetuses
>>>>>>>>> at much lower levels.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt)
>>>>>>>> Is that what they wound up saying?  I never saw Eipisodes
>>>>>>>> II or III.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, not really.  A****in's midichlorian count remains
>>>>>>> unexplained, and
>>>>>>> in fact is rarely mentioned again, and Shmi just goes off
>>>>>>> and gets
>>>>>>> killed to provide enough angst/anger/whatnot to start
>>>>>>> A****in on his
>>>>>>> path
>>>>>>> to the Dark Side.  But hey, it's a theory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another explanation is that the Jedi who knocked her up
>>>>>> then erased her memories so that his little transgression
>>>>>> would never be
>>>>>> detected
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the few instances where the finger wave wasn't done
>>>>> with a finger.
>>>>
>>>> Meh.  There was such a simple explanation, and Lucas didn't
>>>> bother to go for it.  She was a SLAVE.  Slaves get raped a
>>>> lot. How is a slave to know which of a dozen trans****t
>>>> workers, slave-market staff, and miscellaneous passersby
>>>> fathered her baby?
>>>
>>> Lucas was trying to make A****in's conception mysterious and
>>> intriguing, not commonplace and distasteful.
>>>
>> Pity he failed. That would have been interesting.
> 
> Failed miserably, both in concept and execution.  I don't dipute
> that. But the point of the "virgin birth" business was
> *supposed* to be "He's special" not simply "We don't know who
> his Dad was". 
> 
If you're referring to A****in Skywalker, I believe the point was 
"Spend money on Star Wars merchandising, because I want a new 
boat."

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