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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Is that a change to old lore? Thought Star Wars has always talked about a balance between the light and dark.
I kinda thought that the last quote was a very clunky way of saying the force will always balance.
Darkside and Lightside always in balance, if dark side gets too powerful then an equal power will be added to the light side.
Whether that is between life and death, peace and violence, warmth and code. The force always providing a balance between the darkside and the light side.
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Except that fundamentally the Force, the Dark and the Lightside are rarely in balance. The force practically allows itself to fall out of balance.
Just look at the history of the thing.
It starts all light. the some jedi find out that there's a darkside and explore it. they get beaten up and exiled and find the Sith Empire. So in theory the force is in balance, but its not because its a perpetual state of war.
Flash forward. The Sith turn on each other, the Jedi beat them and promote a war of genocide (Pretty dark stuff) the Sith Vanish and find another Empire.
The Light side kind of rises. Then the Sith invade and conquer a bunch of the galaxy. This is the balance.
The Sith Empire collapses, the Jedi win. The Sith basically vanish.
The light rules, until another Jedi or two turn and we get another Sith Jedi War, but in this case the Sith are basically destroyed by one of their own in Darth Bane, who kills all the Sith but himself and takes on an apprentice and vanishes to plot his revenge. The light rises the Dark Side in retreat.
A few thousand years pass the Light its at its height. Then the Sith strike back and start darkening up the Force reducing the Jedi's ability to use it. The Sith rise, the Jedi are crushed and exterminated the darkness rules the galaxy.
a few decades pass, The light triumphs the dark gets thrown down the well. Hurray. but the Darkness rises again. The Jedi are wiped out again. The Dark rises and the spark goes out.
The force has never been in balance. Even when you looked at the Celestials (The father, son and daughter) the force never truly allowed balance there as the son killed the daughter and the son died as did the father and the force went even further to the darkside instead of retaining balance.
You could argue that the force is like a teeter tooter that never balances it slams to the dark and then slams to the light, it rarely hits the balance point.
Even at its lightest the Jedi are still doing things that would be considered dark. When you look at Star Wars Lore, frankly the Force is a incredible force for destruction and repression of the non force users. The force is meant to be dark to reflect mans base nature. You could argue that when its light, its as Sidious put it a power that many believe to be un-natural.