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Caspar · **04-09-2016, 02:50 PM**

(04-08-2016, 08:47 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:
(04-08-2016, 08:41 PM)Chris Ganale Wrote: It really is, and people sadly forget that. The main six movies just show the space opera side of Star Wars. People were shocked by things like Republic Commando and the Dark Forces games showing a darker, grittier universe, but that's sort of the reality of the setting when you look at places like Jakku and Tattooine were there's abject poverty, thousands of years worth of cycles of warfare, and two factions of mystical glowbat swingers who have this alarming tendency to grind the rest of the galaxy to dust trying to wipe each other out every fifty or so years.

Yep, and several times the Jedi Order is almost as bad as the Sith are - they either ignore rampant corruption (which eventually led to the purge during the last days of the Old Republic), ignore threats that really shouldn't be ignored (the Mandalorian Wars come to mind), or end up adopting an "ends justify the means" mentality, which leads to Very Bad Things™.

I like that Rogue One will involve some of the "little people" stuck in the middle of all this shit going down, just trying to survive an Empire determined to crush them.

While this is readily apparent to anyone watching the prequel trilogy, Lucas himself never intentionally characterized the Jedi Order as morally ambiguous, which makes taking the franchise out of his hands so much more promising. Other writers clearly saw the potential in giving the Jedi some real moral questions to struggle against rather than sitting around spouting blithe psuedodaoist philosophy.

It was popular to think Anakin DID bring balance to the force: by killing most of the Jedi. But then Lucas immediately dispelled that theory. He never did meet a good plot turn he liked.

Rogue One: Cannot Unsee

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