Discussion ITT We Discuss Why "Plot Idea X" Will NOT Ruin Anakin's Sacrifice

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Sidious fomented fear, anger, and hate on a galactic scale. That was the entire point of the Death Star, to terrify the living crap outta everyone everywhere. That was the way he could "sicken" the Force.

 

Agreed. If "life creates it" and a vast majority of "life" is oppressed/depressed/sick, the impact of such a bruise on the Force's 'source' would be staggering. As one of the first few posts said... consider "balance" as "harmony". If the Force has a role in "binding us all together"... the state of the galaxy under Plapy was literally disharmony... due to the un-binding of its populace.

 

[Lo Pan]Indeed![/Lo Pan]

Which brings me to an earlier point. The possible role of the new protagonist would be to maintain balance by ensuring that no one ever causes that much fear, anger, and hate.

To dip momentarily into EU territory, this is also why I was never too bothered about the Legacy comic era Sith. They never succeeded in posing a spiritual threat to the galaxy like Sidious did, largely due the efforts of Anakin's descendants.

 

Precisely, Mr. Burton. My final thought in that initial post was to say that you could potentially have a far more powerful Sith than any we have ever conceived of, but depending on exactly what their specific scheme is, it doesn't have to necessarily have anywhere near a comparable impact on the Force, itself. If there was the need for a "prophecy" that was passed down for generations... there were countless evil Sith Lords causing varying degrees of bedlam during all of those periods and there was still no need for a bringer of "balance". Sidious' plan brought about specific effects on the Force that other similar practioners of the Dark Side did not accomplish to anywhere near the degree where a "chosen one" was required. If the next villain is Unicron, it still may not deharmonize the Force in any manner resembling Episodes 2-6. The next villain may actually get the adverse response... instead of the communal life-force being in a state of depression... the next antagonist might get the populace fired up enough to unite against him/her/it. Think of the possible effects of a situation like that on the Force.

 

Exactly. If we are still discussing this in health terms... we go from Plapy causing a vitamin deficiency to the potential of an overdose. Depending on the general unifying disposition of the people whose "binding" give life to the Force, we have some really out there possibilities to consider. It's comparable to going from anemia to an overproduction of blood cells.

 

BTW, the prologue to the RotS novelization (titled "the Age of Heroes") would be a good place to understand how even the name Skywalker would go a long way in maintaining the balance of the Force.