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Originally Posted by manephelien  It may well be that to be balanced, the Force needs both a dark and a light side serving it, no matter how tragic the consequences may be for an individual user to fall to the dark side.
Light is only light as long as there is something dark to compare it with. |
A house divided falls in on itself. If the Force is somehow or directly connected to a Deity or God in their universe, then it does not need the dark side serving it and is complete in itself. Developing selfishness, greed, or envy will introduce the individual to the path of the dark side. How far one wants to go down that path is a matter of choice, not predestination. It was more than Anakin leaving his mother at an early age that led him astray. But it was still his choice. He had many events happen in his life that he could have gone either way with. Whatever bad seeds were in Anakin even from an early age, they really were nurtured over many years by those who did not have his best interests at heart. The Jedi and the Sith were both guilty of this.
If you do not have the dark to compare with the light, you just have innocence. And without the antagonist or a conflict, one does not sell many books. I am familiar with very little EU stuff, and I'm sure a lot of it is quite good, but the bad has to end sometime. An eternal conflict sounds so exausting. How long does the bad/dark side have to exist before the point is established,
it does not work! It only serves itself and does not give a damn about anyone else. Life works best when we are our brothers keeper.
What I would like to see is how the Sith were started in the first place. I think that fall from grace would make an extremly interesting story (trilogy?)