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Originally Posted by crich70
Answer to question 6,789,435,218:
It is forbidden for a Jedi to marry. That is mentioned in the course of the 2nd movie "The Clone Wars." As I understand it Jedi are born of normal families just like everyone else and once detected as children they are sent to the Jedi temple for training.
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DU-uh.
Yeah, got that. BUT...if, as we have seen, the dreaded mitichlorians (so help me, if I have to go look that up on some Nerdy-nerd website, just to ensure that I'm spelling it right, Crich, I'm gonna beat you!) are heritable--which one might think that the mighty Jedi would have noticed by now (now being...whenever), why would they preclude Jedi from breeding? It seems utterly DAFT and self-defeating! As I said, it's not like the Priesthood, is it? Ok, sure--for some reason, they are precluded from Marriage--although nobody said that they had to remain celibate, as near as I can see/tell--and there are FEMALE Jedi, too. (And thus, you'd think, they'd be even more inclined to breed selectively).
The whole, "Jedi can't marry" storyline seems to be one of those short-sighted storylines created strictly to explain Vader. And (thinks back to when she was a paid book reviewer, in ye olden days, long e'er the time of Amazon and eBooks)...isn't there a post-movie storyline in which Luke has a romance? Yes, there is. I've read it, and reviewed it, somewhere. In the early...90's? So, whassup with the forbidden love thing?
Hitch