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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7689632" data-attributes="member: 177">I saw one essay that had an interesting point.  We had the original three movies, and they gave us heroes who won... and until now, we presumed they lived happily ever after (at least, most people did - barring the comparatively small number who read the EU books).  These movies make canon the idea that, quite frankly, rather than live happily ever after, they had major misery, and everything they fought and suffered for got torn down within their own lifetimes - Luke manages to help beat the Emperor, but his own apprentices all die or turn, and set him alone on the run.  Han and Leia's love turns to pain and separation when their own son becomes a murderer and joins up with the First Order that's just like the Empire they worked so hard to defeat, and Han's on son kills him.They could very well ask what the point of it all was. With great power comes great responsibility... and risk.  Note that in all the cases where we see someone turn, it is under the influence of someone who is already on the Dark Side.  Specifically, we don't see in the films anyone trained by the Jedi turn spontaneously.  What they do seems to work, and requires a full-on Sith master to break asunder.</blockquote>