Who do we cheer for? Who do we want to win?

Whihc is an extreme oddity in itself...

Speaking in general terms, if the two sides are the same strength then the Dark Side had an evens chance, before you calculate the intelligence that either side put it.

But then you get into the whole "Are Sith 50 zillion times more powerful than Jedi..." problem...

Maybe it's just that Palpatine is more intelligent than the Jedi and beats them by wit.

Oh yeah. In fact, I really hope it IS that way. If it;s just sheer dumb (and possibly non-existent_ luck..

My (somewhat unclear) point was that when I nsay that the Light and Dark Sides are balanced, I often here people say that 'in that case, as there are only two Sith, do they have ALL the Dakr Side power, and the Light Side is diffused among the Jedi?'

Which wasn't what I was trying to say at all.

I know you didn't. That story sounds really weird. People have this idea of "balance", that it can ONLY be Yin AND Yang. And GL said quite clearly that balance is created in the SW universe by goodness only.

His problem there is that balance sounds cool, but it was bound to be misinterprted. People always like to over-complicate.

I've always thought he could have explained it in another way.

That said, there are plenty of mythological definitions of balance which define it the way GL wants it, rather than the yin-yang approach- and of course, GL knows all of these mythological bases. He probably just didn't foresee that many fans would misinterpret it; easy to do when you have the knowhow, becase it;s easy to forget that othe people don't

But then again, now his fans are debating it for five years in a row until Ep3 comes out. Maybe he won't explain it until then. An interesting way of customer relations, I'd say.