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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 5226882" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>Wow. Yes. Some serious threadamancy! I started reading and only noticed most of the way in that it was originally from 2006.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, if I may comment, I'd just like to say that if you go by George's vision, it's not just the Sith that get destroyed at the end of <em>Return of the Jedi</em> but also the dark side itself, which GL has described as being like a "cancer". It is <em>not</em> a natural part of the Force. There is no Yin/Yang thing going on here, so a "balanced" Force is a Force that is purely "light side" with no dark side whatsoever. This does not mean that there is no more evil in the galaxy. Just that people can no longer twist the Force to perform unnaturally evil "magic".</p><p></p><p>Obviously that throws the entire post-film EU out the window ... and, to be honest, I'm perfectly fine with that. I think the majority of it, <em>particularly</em> the Legacy era stuff, does a huge disservice to the point of the original films. If the galaxy is just going to be plunged into an even deeper darkness with an even stronger Sith Empire than before a mere 150 years after Palpatine and Vader are destroyed, then what's the point? Doesn't that belittle the entire classic Star Wars story? Everything that the movies' heroes fought (and, in some cases, died) for is entirely undone and rendered moot a mere century and a half later. Not only that, but the movies' heroes don't even get to rest on their laurels and "live happily ever after", as Palpatine comes back multiple times, then some blue dude tries to take over, then the galaxy gets invaded by a whole bunch of aliens, including some weird dinosaur guys, some emos, and some extra-galactic S&M freaks (and Palpatine gets retconned into a more benevolent dictator who was merely trying to prepare the galaxy for the YV invasion).</p><p></p><p>Anyway ... just throwing my two credits down on an old, much-flogged horse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 5226882, member: 54629"] Wow. Yes. Some serious threadamancy! I started reading and only noticed most of the way in that it was originally from 2006. Anyway, if I may comment, I'd just like to say that if you go by George's vision, it's not just the Sith that get destroyed at the end of [I]Return of the Jedi[/I] but also the dark side itself, which GL has described as being like a "cancer". It is [I]not[/I] a natural part of the Force. There is no Yin/Yang thing going on here, so a "balanced" Force is a Force that is purely "light side" with no dark side whatsoever. This does not mean that there is no more evil in the galaxy. Just that people can no longer twist the Force to perform unnaturally evil "magic". Obviously that throws the entire post-film EU out the window ... and, to be honest, I'm perfectly fine with that. I think the majority of it, [I]particularly[/I] the Legacy era stuff, does a huge disservice to the point of the original films. If the galaxy is just going to be plunged into an even deeper darkness with an even stronger Sith Empire than before a mere 150 years after Palpatine and Vader are destroyed, then what's the point? Doesn't that belittle the entire classic Star Wars story? Everything that the movies' heroes fought (and, in some cases, died) for is entirely undone and rendered moot a mere century and a half later. Not only that, but the movies' heroes don't even get to rest on their laurels and "live happily ever after", as Palpatine comes back multiple times, then some blue dude tries to take over, then the galaxy gets invaded by a whole bunch of aliens, including some weird dinosaur guys, some emos, and some extra-galactic S&M freaks (and Palpatine gets retconned into a more benevolent dictator who was merely trying to prepare the galaxy for the YV invasion). Anyway ... just throwing my two credits down on an old, much-flogged horse. [/QUOTE]
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