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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 2245704" data-attributes="member: 168">I have my own odd view of "balance" to the force.Most immediately assume that the Jedi of the Old Republic were actually "light-siders." I disagree, they were grey -siders. Only two Jedi measure up to the ideals of the force - Qui Gon and to a lesser degree Luke. All of the other Jedi fall short to thier own ideals and the ideals of the Jedi order; they become stagnatly bound to a set of traditions and rules that keep them safe from the darkside. It is their fear of the darkside rather than their devotion to the light which prompts them to do as they do. The crowd favorite Yoda is the best example of this "force bankrupsy" - even as time moves on and we enter episodes 4-6 he is still so blinded by tradition that he cannot adapt, nor does he hear the will of the force. The Jedi in 1-2 are a LN society whose entire organization is devoted to keeping its members free of the Darkside. It has putrified from within until it only has the trapings of "goodness" even though individuals within it still strive to do good. Rules replace reason, tradition replaces adapting, and they have come to believe that - no fear, no anger, no hate are the opposites of fear, hate and anger. Luke intuitively uses Love, Loyalty, and Compassion to redeem his father against the advice of his Master and the most famed Jedi Master in the history of the order. The return of balance is not the return of the Darkness that was the Sith [they never went anywhere], nor was it the winniowing of the numbers of Jedi, the return to balance was to replace the murky twilight of the Jedi with a pure and clean light that embraces the human condition and is willing to risk loss and willing to risk love.</blockquote>

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