Originally posted by Ushgarak
Ok, people are seriously out of control about Balance, and getting it all wrong, as demonstrated by eleveninches there.
agreed balance thing seems to be skewed a little. A little too much emphasis on numbers. As far as just two sith that was a choice made by Darth Bane to keep themselves in check.
As far as why Vader died, I would have to go with a little too much juice fried his circuits. I cant remember what he said when he and luke where getting on the ship, might have to pop the movie in. But I think he knew it was going to kill him, thus killing the only two sith, and bringing balance back to the force. Fullfilling the prophecy, and he probably dident know it untill it was ready to happen. Dident yoda say futures cloudy hard to see, or something like that.
If there were no sith, it would NOT be balanced, as the light side and the dark side are BOTH aspects of the force. If there was no dark side, the force would not be balanced, as there would be an absence of the dark side. Also, for millenia, there were no sith or dark jedi known by the jedi, but there were thousands of jedi (very unbalanced). This is why the prophacy of the 'one who will BRING balance to the force' exists. If the force was not unbalanced, they would not have created a prophacy saying that it needed to be brought back into balance.
Eleven, I just told you why that is not so! What else can I say? You are wrong to see it like that!
Please read what I said again. it is nothing to do with numbers, and there can only be Balance if the Light Side is in power.
The Force has become unbalanced by the Dark Side, in the time of the Prequel films. That is what the Dark Side does.
Here is that directly from GL:
"The Phantom Menace refers to the force of the dark side of the Universe. Anakin will be taken over by dark forces which in turn destroy the balance of the Galaxy."
See? Nothing to do with all the Jedi. They were preventing imbalance.
As I say, you have to stop looking at it in such simplisitc terms as 'Balance' being so banal as to mean the amount of people praciticng it on each side on some giant cosmic set of scales.
As I say, if that were so, it would not even be desirable to have balance!
Originally posted by yerssot
I doubt that the academy is where you go and study, not become a TIE Pilot.
Why would Luke be so eager to get off the planet and join the Empire which he absolutely hates? To get shot down at the first fight they run into cause they have no shields?
No, it was the Imperial academy. He decided he hated the Empire when they killed Owen and Beru.