[CaptainCrunch]

I love the concept of the rule of 2 and think its hugely important in understanding the Sith, and why they rose to power the way they did and probably why they fell. It also did a great job of making the Jedi look like what they were when they fell, arrogant, cocky and blind.

Basically 2 guys (well really one) toppled a thousands of years old order with thousands of powerful force users, without even needing to use the force until the end. That's power.

the Jedi were every bit as corrupted as the Senate, you could argue that the Sith and especially Palpatine was pure.

The biggest difference between the two was outlook, but their end goals were pretty much the same, they both wanted the power to change the galaxy to their own ends. The Jedi wanted a galaxy at peace and filled with compassion. The Sith also wanted a galaxy at peace, however they felt that lesser beings (those without the ability to use the force) couldn't be trusted to run it, they were meant to serve the greater good, which was one powerful being making all the decisions in bringing about a galaxy built around the concepts of Peace, Order and Justice.

The Rule of 2 guaranteed that the person that eventually ruled would be powerful enough and ruthless enough to do it.

The whole revenge against the Jedi was to the Sith a bonus for the Jedi exiling them and then trying to commit genocide on them. But when Sidious sat on his throne the day after Order 66 went out, his first throught was now I rule the galaxy and I can shape it to my designs, his second thought was "In your face Jedi".

The Midi's was kind of a heavy handed way of answering the question of why can't everyone use the force. In the EU it was a basically a mutation in the brain at one point. It was pretty clumsy in that you needed microscopic parasites to hear the will of the force and be able to use it. But it was better then some of the early books of the EU, when Force Users were literally popping out of everywhere.