Oh no, I didn't think you were; you could probably remove issues of heritage from myth, but I think it would be a bloody operation. I think I was afraid of giving you the impression that I was somehow sneering at what is a legitimate and useful trope. That said, I'm also really interested in how you subvert it as well. To a certain extent, it is what it is, embrace or reject, it remains the same... unless someone had the means of retroactively altering their own heritage.

Hoom...

The midi-chlorians! They burns us!

A tiny part of my brain has been taken over by this mad little gnome who works day and night to make those movies suck less. He's made it through most of Phantom Menace, but when he looked at Clones I think he just started crying.

Midgard Serpent, or something with mad metal skillz

See I had this dream where I was looking at an advance copy of a novel I wrote, entitled Jukebox Hero with the cover art being a person with a long coat and guitar, in sillhouette, jumping between two buildings, against a midnight blue sky.

I wish I knew what it was about. It sounds deliciously cheesy.