What do you think will be the best

Yeah..I could see it as a religous order who developed the understanding over a long period of time.. Maybe extreme mediditation=force control.

I always saw it as far more of an innate understanding. I go with the theory that MCs created life in order to create the Force...

Lets go see the great RAZ he will know

So, Ush, you're saying the MC's CREATED the Force???? That's interesting. So they are intelligent microscopic life forms, not just communicators? If this is true I'm not sure if I still like Star Wars...

Yeah, Qui Gon's line about the MCs constantly speaking to us, telling us the will of the Force, would imply that the Force is an almighty power, which the Midichlorians may understand on a higher level to us. It depends how you mean 'created', if you're referring to the fact that the Force is created by all living things, you're probably right.

Oh, I'm pretty sure they are intelligent, in an obscure sort of way. Qui-Gon makes out thst life is impossible without them. For them to create life which would in turn propogate the Force that is their home seems a very natural thing to me.

Whatever II and III are like, they have got to be better than that appalling, plotless Disney epic 'Episode I'. 😮‍💨 😮‍💨

OUCH..you might be happier with EP1 when you see how it relates to 2 and 3. MHO...OC.

Don't agree it was plotless, there was a plot, it was just a lame plot.

I don't think it was that lame..I enjoyed it. I'll give you that it wasn't the best SW movie.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I LOVED the film, saw it 3 times at the cinema and watch it a lot on vid.

But it was hardly the most original plot idea, and it was pretty predictable.

Well, the fact that we knew so much about it before hand really didn't help.

Actually, I didn't really know that much at all until about 3 weeks before the film came out.

When I read the bopk I felt like I knew what was going to happen on the next page before I turned it.

Then again, Episode 1 was an introduction, a good one at that. It is up to Eps 2 & 3 to decide how good Ep1 was really. If it wa a set up for nothing, it'll look silly. If it's a set up for a gripping couple of sequels and a fantastic whole saga, I won't bear a grudge at paying a fiver (well, several...) to see the start of something so great.
I do hope the mood changes, though. Less CG characters, more battles between humans with meaty blaster shots tearing flaming chunks out of armour, not those pretty lame pea-shooter blasts from Ep1.

I don't think Ep2&3 will be able to save Ep1. It will never be a classic, I'm afraid. It's just not a great film, and not a very good script.

I agree about the script, everyone was waiting to say their piece, there was very little actual conversation.

I guess, in the final analysis, Episode-I had a lot to do and achieved most of it, but at the expence of some quality. 🙁

I watched it today, and I still don't think it could be much better. With Jedi taking lead roles as they did, there's bound to be some overdramatisation and pomposity in the dialogue. Jar jar being at completely the other end of the scale didn't help, an easy-going balance would have been better.

Of course it could have been better. There could have been a bit more of a background to these characters, there hardly was any as if these characters dropped out of the sky.
Also, R2 and 3PO were unnecessary for the story and most of it was quite rushed. Except for Tatooine which was fairly slow. GL could also have dropped the MC's as far as I'm concerned, I'll give him some leverage on that for the upcoming prequels.
And I think the link Sidious/Palpatine should have been made clear, that way we'd be more on the edge of our seats, feeling for Padme and how this is going to end. A bit like the ending of ANH.

Well, introducing the droids at this stage allows Anakin to get back to Tatooine, and no-one will wonder where C3PO came from, his earlier introduction will save valuable time in what it sounding like a fairly fast moving film. I don't know where he's going with the Palpatine/Sidious thing, maybe he plans on the revelation being made to the characters as it is confirmed for the audience...