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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1458744" data-attributes="member: 4779">Ah, okay.  I understand what you were getting at now.  I was confuzzled. Allow me to expand upon my point.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Lucas' intent may not be what I am saying about balance.  However, the byproduct still works.  Whether or not he meant for the prophecy to mean that the number of Sith and Jedi would even out or not, it still ends up that way.  It may not be at the end of Episode III, but A New Hope supports the theory. Despite what I think the public thinks about Lucas and Star Wars, it's not a light-hearted romp where good always defeats evil.  There is a definite darkness to the story and while Empire Strikes Back was dark, Episode III should be darkest.  The fall of Anakin Skywalker gives life to the original trilogy.  Without Vader, those movies don't exist. I agree that things had been going pretty well for the Republic but the rot that destroys it I'm sure has been going on for at least a 1/2 century.  The senators have been squabbling with each other for a bit and the Jedi have been blind to it all. So the balance will certainly happen in the form of the Purge.  The power and influence will even out.  And while I do agree that the movies may imply that the darkside unbalances thing, I do think it can be looked at 2 different ways, the other being what I've been saying here.  That is one of the cool things about the story, to me.  The strength has always been there in that reguard.</blockquote>

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