And two (or more, depending on if you include Count Dooku and General Grievous) Dark Force/Sith users. When Anakin was The Chosen One, there were a lot of other Jedi out there. I was very glad there was more to it than that. Did he? Maybe he wanted Rey to throw Palpatine into another pit? I just don’t think that was the endgame after all this heavy world-building. In Rey’s communal message from all the Light Side Jedi, you can clearly hear Anakin Skywalker ( Hayden Christensen) tell her to bring back the balance, “as he did.” Spoilers follow for Star Wars up through Rise of Skywalker.
Or the inverse.įrom what I can tell after the finale of the nine-part Skywalker saga, Force balance means each aspect will have an equal amount of…let’s call it life power…at any one time. This isn’t exactly what I (okay, and Jung) had in mind, but balance definitely did NOT mean destroying Dark Side users and embracing only the Light. And that with only two Sith (roughly) at any time, each of the two would have an equal power of Dark, shared among the Master and Apprentice. Succinctly: if there were going to be a lot of Jedi Knights, their Light would be spread pretty thin. It’s kind of unbelievable it took 42 years from A New Hope until The Rise of Skywalker to make it clear what a “balance of the Force” meant.
Well, fast forward a couple of decades plus three more films, and it turns out that I - and Jung - were not wrong. And it seemed that Star Wars creator George Lucas was telling us only the Light made right._ It’s what we choose to do with our potential that makes us who we are. We all have aspects of good and evil within. I always ascribed to a Jungian philosophy, where one needs to balance the anima and animus, or in other words, walk a line between light and dark. Was Anakin Skywalker’s whole life and six movies leading up to him tossing said Emperor? THAT was bringing balance to the Force? Not too impressive after so much build-up. There’s been confusion over this ‘balance’ aspect since then. He wasn’t going anywhere good until the very last 20 minutes of Return of the Jedi, when he pitched the Emperor over a railing…and died. Which made no sense, since we all knew who Anakin would grow up to be. Anakin Skywalker was prophesied to “bring it” and at the time, we all assumed it meant to bring more Light Side and less Darkness. Since we first saw The Phantom Menace in 1999, audiences wondered what precisely it meant to bring balance to the Force. Read Time:6 Minute, 45 Second Are we balanced yet?
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