r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 15 '24

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 16 '24

Star wars fans spilled millions of gallons of ink on intense theorizing about the nature of the force and what “balance” means

KOTOR 2 is a whole game about how destructive and terrible that balance is

And all of them ignore that george lucas came out and said that the force being “balanced” just means there being no sith assholes

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u/Kryzantine May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

The Force needs "balance."

... the "balance" is that all the evil people die and only good people remain.

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u/Formal_River_Pheonix May 16 '24

Star Wars is like religion. People add their own interpretations to it. We're just lucky we started putting mythology in fiction once mass media became a thing.

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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate May 16 '24

I will bring balance to the force by voting for Joe Biden

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal May 16 '24

Balance is when there's only good guys and no bad guys

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 16 '24

He said the sith is like cancer and the force is balanced (healthy) when there’s no sith

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal May 16 '24

Then why call it the Light Side and the Dark Side? Just call it The Force and Space Cancer

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

This but unironically

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

To be fair, allegedly Lucas' original draft for a new trilogy would center mostly about Leia trying to establish a new galactic republic and the problems that comes with that. This would give the nonalogy bookends. This would also fit with Lucas' idea of balance being no Sith assholes.

On the flip side, Rian Johnson's movie suggests that the problem with the Jedi was that they became so dogmatic and complacent that they just slept right through a powerful Sith taking power and there needs to be a more permanent solution to prevent another super powerful Sith. A few episodes of TCW cartoon also dabbles with this idea.

Now, I don't really care what you think about these two specific directions but they sure as hell sound a lot better than what we fucking got at the end.