To write more random thoughts down Lucas for all that he's terrible at making movies his ideas ain't too bad, and so I want to comment on his naming choice specifically calling the sides of the force Light and Dark.
Now obviously we know what these two are Light Jedi Dark Sith ect. simple easy ect., but this has a lot more complexity then just light and dark.
If Lucas intended for the Light to just be good and the Dark just bad then he made a really poor choice in naming them and while for all I know there is a language out there where light and good are the same thing, Light has never = good it has synonyms of Bright, Rich, Luminous ect. and generally makes us think of good things as it should we are naturally day time creatures we do stuff during the day and can see in it, but at the same time the light is blinding, especially if we look straight at a bright light source.
On the Other Hand Dark has never = evil either it has synonyms of Black, Cloudy and Dim. None of these are good things in fact most of them are not good at all, and thus makes people think of bad things which again makes sense, we're not nocturnal creatures we sleep during the night, we can't see in the dark its scary there are things out there and I don't like it. However, it also is one of my favourite times because its the time when I sleep and do all that nice stuff (and other things I won't talk about). Its still scary and I don't like it much.
In short if he was trying to make the Light and the Dark inherently and explicitly evil he did a poor job.
Official canon is that he brought balance to the force by wiping out the Sith, leaving only Jedi in the galaxy. It was not by killing all the Ones. You have to consider that maybe "balance in the Force" does not necessarily mean making both equally powerful.
No I interpreted it to mean wiping both out so that something new could arise from the ashes of the old, which is what he did, the Jedi he created and the First Order having very few similarities I can see with the Jedi and Sith of the Republic era.
Seriously how can light alone be balanced, wiping out the darkness would mean there would be no light at all.
Also where is this stated?
That the Son and Daughter both have to live to avoid destabilizing the Force says absolutely nothing about the morality of the actions of the Jedi or Sith. Honestly, nothing in this arc says much of anything about the Jedi or Sith, excepting the ones that are on Mortis at the moment. The ternary division of the Force tends to provoke this discussion about whether Balance is better than Light alone - a discussion with no real conclusion, because sources vary wildly on this, and people's interpretation of those sources varies more wildly still - but we shouldn't project the Jedi's issues onto the Daughter, nor vice versa.
And if I was commenting on that then that'd be great, but I'm not (for the most part) I'm trying to examine the interactions between the light and the dark and give my own conclusion (activate sarcasm mode: w
hich is totally the right one guys, and anyone who says other wise is an idiot Sarcasm mode deactivated)
That said ye are correct, though if I think of things I may just pop em here any for people to mull over.
And yes lookin forward to getting back to shooting that creepy pedo in the face
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