You do not need a number to determine that, though. Anakin flying a podracer is a major tell that he is incredibly powerful, and if they removed the midichlorians entirely they could have demonstrated his immense potential through scenes throughout the movie. Show his capability instead of just tell us so.
I feel like you should have clearly understood what I meant by invoking the term.
Genetics were always there from the beginning with Luke and his father, who we later learned was Vader.
That's another stupid thing about the prequels. When Yoda claims that Luke is too old for Jedi training, it's easy to think okay, maybe as an adult it's too late and his personality/flaws are too developed. I guess you have to be a child.
Not just genetic matters but it's also a hamfisted attempt to establish that not everyone is capable of manipulating the mystic power of the Force. It's a retcon to anyone asking the question "why wouldn't everyone in the Galaxy study the Force and get superpowers?"
I suppose that's fair, but that still leaves the Jedi harvesting infants who have no right or ability to consent to a life as a monk. And that Qui-Gon quote still doesn't explain how they're typically found. It took Filoni retconning. The age requirement is still idiotic. I can understand not allowing a fully developed adult but requiring one to be an infant is absurd. And there's no good reason for it other than to create fallibility for Anakin. An element completely wiped away by the existence of former jedi Count Dooku.
Yeah, taking children and not embracing emotion are part of the reason the jedi fell.
It was necessary for George in trying to develop the tragedy narrative. But the assertion that, "had the Jedi found Anakin sooner, he wouldn't have developed the emotional tendencies that caused him to turn to the Dark Side" is stupid because Count Dooku presumably joined the Jedi traditionally but he still left the jedi order and turned to the Dark side. And beyond that you could have Anakin's downfall be tragic without such a stupid narrative tool.
No of course, that's how we as people with logic understand things. But that's the implication. That if a Jedi is raised as a Jedi from an earlier age they will be more pure and less likely to be subject to temptations or other personality flaws that can lead to the Dark Side. Because Anakin was discovered later there was a greater risk to give in to anger and hatred because he developed all his emotions into childhood without rigid Jedi guidance.
Regular jedi don't procreate, so midichlorians will still pop up in a high count at random.
