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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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I don't know what's up with that. Maybe it was set up as a way to make sure that 'the chosen one' would be able to be spotted easier. And having attachments leads into the 'fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering' line that Yoda mentions in The Phantom Menace so perhaps that was put into place to avoid that problem. I don't know much about the novels just the movies for the most part.