Uinted Communist of Africa wrote:The Imperial Reach wrote:Honestly how the Force works has been explained so many times in so many contradictory ways since day 1.
IIRC Lucas himself said that there is no "Light Side" of the Force and that the Dark Side is more like a cancer than an opposite power. So it's not Yin and Yang so much as it is Purity and Corruption, with the Jedi adhering to the Force itself while the Sith corrupt it. "Balance in the Force" thus means an absence of the Dark Side, which was in and of itself an imbalance. But then a bunch of other writers got confused and we got this generic "Light v. Dark/Good v. Evil/Yin and Yang" dualistic dichotomy that Western Civilization was more familiar with.
Personally I like the former idea more than the latter. The Dark Side being more like an infectious growth or a tumor or something rather than one side of a whole. It helps paint the understanding that those who follow the Dark Side are "lost" and how one "falls" to it's influence rather than joins willing. The rhetoric that both Jedi and Sith use makes a lot more sense this way, and it better explains why and how the Dark Side takes a toll on one's body and soul.
But thats my point it wasn't balanced and the universe made it so. The universe wants balance so even though the dark side didn't exist at first doesn't mean its a cancer. It helps just as a wild fire kills anything in its path but also makes the forest revitalized. Sith burn throughout the galaxy anytime the lightside gets to complacent and vice versa. They literally cannot wipe each other out its nt the universes will. The jedi need to come to terms with the balance and accept the sith and unite their religions so they can better understand the force. The sith need to be more aware that the jedi are just as.powerful and in many ways equal with how they view things.
That's another reason why I was upset that the newest trilogy wasn't a sith one. I wanted to see from a siths perspective( not a rule of two sith because they are clearly a blood thristy cult) on how the force speaks to them and what they would do in certain situations. Like I want the next trilogy to start right after a long reign of jedi in the galaxy and many systems are beggining to hate the jedis interference and then the force brings a chosen one for the sith to power. Not sure of the details but I would like to see more of a religious view into the star wars universe unlike disneys "pew pew pew...boom" sci fi gasm. Of course a little bit goes a long way.
But the Sith just want power. You can't negotiate with them. Their whole ideology is based on gaining as much power as you possibly can regardless of how other people will be affected. Redemption is possible but rare, and even then it's always actually balancing in the idea that the light side is true balance. Rule of Two Sith was not "clearly a bloodthirsty cult", they were how the Sith had always been. The difference was that now they limited themselves to prevent infighting. Even in Legends, pre-Bane Sith were always based around gathering power constantly.
This isn't a forest. Billions of people dead for personal gain is not balance. The Sith were like that since day one.
