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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This one has always interested me.
Anakin did bring balance to the force, it was just misinterpreted by the Jedi. The Jedi were the overpowered faction at the time, so in order for one to bring balance to the force they rightfully had to join the dark side.
At the time of the Prequel Trilogy the Jedi were a large group, that pretty much held all the power in the galaxy.
The Sith were a back room organization that were in hiding and had very little influence or power.
By the end of those movies the force was balanced: you had Palpatine and Vader on the dark side, and Obi Wan and Yoda on the light side. A perfect balance.
The only reason the dark side truly took over is because after the Jedi lost all of their political power, and the mass numbers advantage the Jedi once held, both Yoda and Obi Wan gave up and went into hiding.
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Except that balance left the galaxy in darkness and firmly tipped to the dark side.
I've always believe that the idea of the balance of the force was that the force was light.
So when Luke got rid of the practitioners of the darkside, the force was left in a balance of goodness and not evil.
Its interesting because the Jedi had their prophesy about the chosen one, the sith in legends had their prophesy of a perfect dark being that was the embodiment of the dark side of the force. The Sith'ari.
Palpatine believed that it was him, and he was considered to be an event horizon of the force as pure of a dark side master as there was.
But you could argue that Anakin was both because for most of his life he was the embodiment of both.