[Coach]

Yeah CC, obviously all of what you say makes plenty of sense. I don't know anything about Plagueis outside of the Sith conversation and anything brough up here. I just think that:

A) The Sith weren't always with the rule of two. As you said, it was chaos before they brought it in, so there was obviously a time before it. Just because it's canon, doesn't mean the Sith themselves can't make a change to their own dogma.

B) The Jedi have, at least, had rumours of attitude changes. Possibly allowing romantic relationships, the Force Ghost was a new technique developed by Qui Gon (right?), using feelings as a means of maintaining self-control rather than forcing their souls to fight them.

It just seems to me that you are caught up in what's canon like that means they can't use the story to make interesting changes. If we just said "well it's canon so it stays that way" nothing would ever change.

It'd be like if the Prequels were the first movies, and people were all like 'No way Anakin could be a bad guy, he is supposed to bring balance! It's canon!" and then people being mad for him changing. Well, if you interpret the prophecy one way it still makes sense. It's all up to interpretation, and I'm just trying to look at things with a different view to see how they could be otherwise interpreted. The Dark Force Ghost thing, for example, you say that they can't become Ghosts in canon, well who says someone super powerful can't break that rule somehow? Ghosts weren't a Jedi thing either until their very last days.So they say it's not Plagueis, so what? Maybe it's not. Maybe Snoke somehow absorbed Plageuis' power, maybe Plageuis is using him as a host somehow, maybe he has nothing to do with it.

My point is that it's fantasy, and the Force is, quite literally, magic, and thus can be used to explain almost anything. Don't let what happened before limit the possibilities going forward. The only reason we fear these things is because of the midichlorins. It was a stupid idea, and I don't think anyone at Lucasfilm had the balls to tell that to George.