Since Rey likely isn't a Jedi...

I believe they were added in as a way to show Anakin as being special. Basically, George needed some additional way to convince Qui Gon that Anakin was the chosen one; beyond how powerful with the force Anakin was and a mothers word that there was no father. Qui Gon wouldn't have taken just those two things as faith and named Anakin the chosen one. Thus the reason (I believe) for the insertion of midi-chlorians as an identifier.

I do not believe Disney will follow the same path. Daisy has said Rey's parents are obvious. The most obvious to me is she is a Skywalker, likely a Solo actually. The reason Solo and Leia didn't tell her in ep7: bigger things to deal with at the time. Solo was trying to hide from his past and likely felt he was responsible for Ben's change to the dark side. Leia (always business first) had to deal with the First Order. Then, after the death of Solo, she was dealing with grief at his loss. She likely didn't want to put undue strain and pain on Rey at the time.

Why was Rey dropped off on Jakku? What makes sense to me is: Rey was likely beginning her training with Luke, probably 3-6 years old. Luke had a vision of Ben going to the dark side and made a deal with Unkar for her to be 'taken in'. While Luke was away, Ben made his move and slaughtered the remainder of Luke's new Jedi order. Luke returned and saw the carnage which led him to go into isolation.

"Kissycat;c-1025910" wrote:
I believe they were added in as a way to show Anakin as being special. Basically, George needed some additional way to convince Qui Gon that Anakin was the chosen one; beyond how powerful with the force Anakin was and a mothers word that there was no father. Qui Gon wouldn't have taken just those two things as faith and named Anakin the chosen one. Thus the reason (I believe) for the insertion of midi-chlorians as an identifier.

I do not believe Disney will follow the same path. Daisy has said Rey's parents are obvious. The most obvious to me is she is a Skywalker, likely a Solo actually. The reason Solo and Leia didn't tell her in ep7: bigger things to deal with at the time. Solo was trying to hide from his past and likely felt he was responsible for Ben's change to the dark side. Leia (always business first) had to deal with the First Order. Then, after the death of Solo, she was dealing with grief at his loss. She likely didn't want to put undue strain and pain on Rey at the time.

Why was Rey dropped off on Jakku? What makes sense to me is: Rey was likely beginning her training with Luke, probably 3-6 years old. Luke had a vision of Ben going to the dark side and made a deal with Unkar for her to be 'taken in'. While Luke was away, Ben made his move and slaughtered the remainder of Luke's new Jedi order. Luke returned and saw the carnage which led him to go into isolation.

That would be a horrid storyline after the events of EP7.

I would find the idea of the Force being some magic stuff based on faith lame, what i like the most about the whole idea of the Force is the fact that it can be proved. You can literally measure/count midi-chlorians... They're there.

If you think about our society and the great wall between believers and atheists, if there was something in this world like the Force, most people would believe in god, i would probably be one of them! Having micro organisms that react, but only with and through some sensitive existences, and it's capable of bending reality rules? We could call that a miraculous power, no doubt...

One of the greatest questions is: Is there a god? a supreme existence that takes care of us all? Now, in real life we don't have any proofs that god is real, as we also have no proofs he is not... So we get divided between believing or not... And at the end of the day, there's no physical evidence, just faith and hope.

BUT, if we had something like midi-chlorians in real life, that would pretty much be a physical evidence of a higher power. That's how awesome the midi-chlorian idea is. All IMHO, obviously.

PS: Also, the Force it's alive and in everything, even the little things happen through the will of the Force. It's a mystical hype bruh!! xD