Poll of the Day > Do you fancy yourself on the Light or Dark Side of the force?

(+) Yeah! (+)

well?

Dark is more interesting.

Considering the official canon basically treats the Force like everyone has a giant "Evil" switch inside them where they flip into full-on psychopath villain the moment they let their guard down and do anything bad, if I discovered I had the Force in the morning, I'd probably be full Sith by the afternoon.

In the middle. Also, who the hell voted for smooching their siblings? Gross!

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Considering the official canon basically treats the Force like everyone has a giant "Evil" switch inside them where they flip into full-on psychopath villain the moment they let their guard down and do anything bad,

That's just George Lucas not understanding order and chaos are not the same as good and evil.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Considering the official canon basically treats the Force like everyone has a giant "Evil" switch inside them where they flip into full-on psychopath villain the moment they let their guard down and do anything bad, if I discovered I had the Force in the morning, I'd probably be full Sith by the afternoon.

light side can still use things like lightning

The force cant stop a bullet.

John j Rambo can solo the whole Star Wars universe

bullets are better than the force like steel is better than magic.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

That's just George Lucas not understanding order and chaos are not the same as good and evil.

But he created the universe and established the rules, so whether or not it's stupid or oversimplified doesn't change the fact that it's objectively true for the setting.

Sort of like how people have pointed out that the Dark Side of the Force should still be a natural part of the Force (because death and anger/passion are implicitly natural and potentially even beneficial/necessary parts of life), or that the cleverest way to interpret the prophecy of Anakin bringing "balance to the Force" was that he did because he helped kill off both the Sith and the Jedi (because hundreds of Jedi but only two Sith is itself blatantly unbalanced). But then Lucas said no, both of those are wrong, so they're objectively untrue for the setting as it exists.

Sure, there's an argument that EU stuff or Disney movies might reinterpret things to change the underlying principles, but both of those are shit so I don't really care what they say anyway.



Krazy_Kirby posted...

light side can still use things like lightning

That doesn't really matter, because it's less about what you do and more about the intent behind it.

So, for instance, Light Side Jedi can basically mindrape people, mutilate them, just straight up kill them, or otherwise ruin their lives, but it's okay as long as they're doing it dispassionately and for a "good cause".

The movies as presented tend to present the morality of the Force as very black-and-white, and somewhat borderline hypocritical. But those ARE the facts of the setting.

Conner4REAL posted...

The force cant stop a bullet.

John j Rambo can solo the whole Star Wars universe

it can stop a rocket launcher, it can stop bullets

Krazy_Kirby posted...

it can stop a rocket launcher, it can stop bullets

only on a universe that universally changes its guns to shoot slow moving lasers to help these shit sipping frittata jedis stop guns from shooting cause bullets are too fast for them.