KilroywasNOTHere
"BEEP!"
I regret that I have but one "like" to give this post. This captures so much correct about Star Wars and why I find the Jedi and Force aspects so important to it too. It also explains why there is no such thing as gray Jedi you cannot be both good and evil there is no balancing good and evil. And this is strongly reflected in the Original Trilogy... "Once you start down the Dark Path, forever will it dominate your destiny" as Yoda said, because once you begin to compromise with Evil, it invariably becomes easier and easier to compromise with it just a bit more... until you are simply evil.
This reading is also something I expect chafes a lot of modern people because they subconsciously recognize it and hate it, because the Force is not an abstract. It solidifies morality, makes it so there is actual Good and Evil in the setting and thus prevents the underlying framework that so many people accept: that good and evil are relative and social constructs.
I expect that one of the things Disney will be doing going forward is completely rejecting this old reading of the Force and relationship between the Jedi and Sith, and instead they will embrace the entire "Grey Jedi" thing where neither the Light or Dark sides are Good and Evil, but instead it's all about personal balance and personal choice, there will be no objective Good and Evil, but rather it will be about acceptance and inclusion.
To be fair both Starkiller, Kyle Katarn, and even Luke to an extent in ROTJ took that approach...but in that case it was less about the force powers themselves and the actions people committed. They used powers like lighting and force choke on occasion but when push came to shove and they were presented with the choice of killing a defenseless person they *Gasp* said no.
As much as we roll our eyes about the mustache-twirling puppy-kicking villain Sometimes the light side choice and the dark side choice IS as simple as "Kick the Puppy" or "Don't Kick the Puppy". and the fact that so many jedi within the Prequal Era order had to do mental and philosophical gymnastics just to convince themselves not to kick the puppy is honestly more disturbing than anything, BUT I think that comes down to less issues with the Force itself and more of Lucas's kind of warped view of humans and human behavior. (Cough cough Anakin and Padme's relationship Cough Cough)
The problem instead is of Disney painting the Jedi Order as fallen and corrupted with a broken code they are doubling down on its code to paint the whole concept of the force and Jedi as flawed so they can then replace it with...whatever they are going to with Rey.
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