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Star Wars 7 coming in 2015
SubaruStephen:
IG-88?
J/k
LeeC:
BB-8 is apparently the soccer ball droid from the trailer. :-P And the girl on the speeder bike is Rey. And greatsword lightsaber dude is Kylo.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 11 Dec 2014, 20:39 ---And greatsword lightsaber dude is Kylo.
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A sith-sword... which is actually partly manufactured by focussing the Dark Side into the lasing crystals. I wonder if this is going to turn out to be a 'The One Ring' situation where, every time he uses the sword, it corrupts him until, no matter what his original intentions were, he's become a tool of the Darkness?
Neko_Ali:
Depending on how you look at it, using the Dark Side is inherently corrupting, or not. It's one of the things Lucas was rather inconsistent on. Which is realistic, but frustrating to other writers and trying to make sense of the greater whole. In some episodes, the Light and the Dark are treated as actual, almost intelligent things. Turning to the Dark, even briefly, has a cumulative and corruptive influence on a person. This unfortunately takes some responsibility to Dark Side users. They become as much victims of an all powerful, evil force. Essentially 'the Devil made me do it'.
At other times the Force just is. It is neither good nor evil. It has no sentience and only maybe some inclination. Whether you were Dark or Light or somewhere in between was a matter of what you chose to do with it, and what you did in general. The Dark Side is considered Dark because as Yoda puts it, it is easier, more seductive. Instead of restraint and control, you get to unleash your anger and fury on something or someone as a real, tangible force. Could you imagine what it would be like for most people, who suffer dozens of frustrations and aggressions at the hands of other things and people every day. And they could just lash out with their mind. I am a good person... But the kind of damage I could do when I get a burst of anger at someone cutting me off, or having a frustrating day and the copying machine or whatever jams... again. Yeah, giving into that would be easy, very easy. And now think that having such powers puts you in a position of strength over other people, where it is very difficult for them to stop you from doing whatever you want, to whomever you want whenever you want. It would be very easy to slide to Darkness based on that. But in the end, it would all be that person's doing. Not the bidding of some omnipresent, near omnipowerful Force. The power itself may be neutral, but humans being humans (or aliens...) unlimited power tends to corrupt.
In the end, there haven't been any real answers as to whether the Force itself has alignment and intelligence, or just exists and people blame their own actions on something greater than them. Which is an excuse that's been used all throughout history to try and get out of the consequences of heinous actions.
Edguy:
If they go with The Force being some kind of sentient deity, I'm going to be very, very disappointed. That's worse than midichlorians.
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