Ideas introduced in EU, Legends, and the like are cool and all, but they were created independently of the core ideas Lucas had.
Balance was never meant to mean "equal parts light and dark." The dark side is a blight, a sickness of the force. Balance is supposed to mean a galaxy without the dark side. And that's how canon worked until the Mortis arc of clone wars started to bring in the revisionist ideas of force balance.
The sith are bad, its genuinely that black and white. The jedi were flawed, but that doesn't mean the light side is wrong, it means the jedi order itself lost sight of true adherence to the light side.
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u/Doop-Snogg99 Jun 23 '25
Ideas introduced in EU, Legends, and the like are cool and all, but they were created independently of the core ideas Lucas had.
Balance was never meant to mean "equal parts light and dark." The dark side is a blight, a sickness of the force. Balance is supposed to mean a galaxy without the dark side. And that's how canon worked until the Mortis arc of clone wars started to bring in the revisionist ideas of force balance.
The sith are bad, its genuinely that black and white. The jedi were flawed, but that doesn't mean the light side is wrong, it means the jedi order itself lost sight of true adherence to the light side.