Lol so basically grey Jedi are the ideal?

Still pissed off that they never showed Ahsoka bite Vader's saber! It's so damn annoying how one-sided the show is! I swear if all the members of the Ghost Crew make it all alive in the finale I'm going to kick Felonious' ass personally!

I finished reading Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void. It was neat to have a look 25,000 years in the past, before the Jedi or Sith were invented. Before lightsabers were invented, or even hyperspace travel. The vastly different philosophy of the Je'daii is what really interested me though:

A Je’daii needs darkness and light, shadow and illumination, because without the two there can be no balance. Veer to Bogan, and Ashla feels too constraining, too pure; edge toward Ashla, and Bogan becomes a monstrous myth. A Je’daii without balance between both is no Je’daii at all. He, or she, is simply lost.

Then I started reading Outbound Flight, and one of the first things I read was:

There is no emotion; there is peace.

A complete rejection of balance, or emotion entirely. What is interesting is that I have seen several interviews of George Lucas in which he describes the Force as the Je'daii would, a balance between light and dark, passion and reason. He says that if you reject one or the other it would put you out of balance. So I wonder why he wrote the Jedi Order as being so unbalanced toward the light? Was it intentional, because he wanted it to be clear that their own straying from the path of balance was in part responsible for their downfall? Or was it just a [censored] up in the writing?

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And then there was the whole "Anakin is the 'Chosen One' who will bring balance to the force." thing. What was that all about? As far as they knew, Anakin was a light side Jedi. To bring balance, he'd have to do something really bad.

Can't remember if posted a picture of this or not, but if I did here's a replacement photo: AT-ACT Replacement.
The first one I had completely malfunctioned as the NERF launcher broke and the Bluetooth controller stop working but I wanted an AT-ACT Walker so I bought another one but this time its mostly a display piece. Still when the old one worked it was a fun little toy to play with.
I also have a scout walker but I'm at odds with it cause in someways I like it and in others I hate it. What I do like is its well detailed but what I hate about it is its VERY unstable standing up. I really wished they did something else to the legs to make it more stable.

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Man Khajiit loves the Walkers! Impractical as all hell, but there's just something about the slow, steady, seemingly inexorable advance of the ATs and the STs are just cool (in Khajiit's opinion), no matter how ridiculously they were treated in RotJ.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Apr 3 2017, 07:27 AM

I think Lucas was kind of boxed in really.

In the original trilogy, Obi-Wan and Yoda are training Luke to kill his father, and are keeping him ignorant of that fact. They're weaponising him. Especially when you consider the fact that Vader knew exactly who Luke was, because they didn't even try to hide him.

And then in The Empire strikes Back, when he has a vision of his friends in trouble, Obi-Wan and Yoda both urge him not to leave, to sacrifice his friends in order to complete his training.

And then, in Return of the Jedi, Luke steps out of the entire Rebellion vs Empire battle to try to save his father. And just for some bonus points, there's that moment when Luke goes to Jabba and force chokes the guards. And there's always the question of where those mind tricks he and Obi-Wan used fall on the scale.

In the original trilogy the Jedi were not the good guys. They were very much grey, at least in their methods, compared to the black and white of the Empire vs Rebellion struggle.

But the Expanded Universe missed that, and built up thousands of years of war after war between the Jedi and the Sith, light side versus dark side. Now, however much Lucas might have disliked the EU, he had to acknowledge that they've kept the franchise going with that, and dropping the Jedi/light vs Sith/dark would have risked alienating a lot of the long standing Star Wars fans.

I'm watching Rogue One on my laptop.

Just saw the Battlefront 2 leaked trailer.

From a story mode to Darth Maul facing off with Yoda, plus the Force Awakens era, I'd say things are looking dandy and good. 💯💯

Yes! And we finally get a glimpse of the campaign! We play as a female Imperial pilot. This is so awesome

"Avenge our Emperor!" Gives me chills!

Dude the shot of the Death Star exploding had me going whoah

NOW we get to see what that event looked like from the perspective of the other side! Freaking amazing

And Maul rushing towards Yoda? Juyo va Ataru? Let's go baby

SNAP SON THE TRAILER FOR EPISODE 8 JUST DROPPED

WHOAHOHOHOHOHO

Gotta say, Kylo Aden looked downright murderous when he appeared. Like, legit.

Is this the one from the Celebration?

You betcher furry behind!

Khajiit thought Kylo looked the same as he did in TFA, lol

He's got the "I hate you!" look down, we need to see if his skill has improved!

Dude, with the scar over his right eye he's looking more and more like Anakin! And there's something more ... fell with him this time around. I'm actually disappointed they didn't show the rest of the Knights tho; I'm honestly sick of the whole few!Sith vs many!Jedi shindig. Here's hoping the situation is reversed this time around!

Well you heard what Luke said. This one wonders if he really feels that way or if he's just depressed, lol

I just saw episode 8 trailer and I'm disappointed they're not going to Bespin . J/k this looks great can't wait to see it.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Apr 14 2017, 07:15 PM

He's depressed af lol

This one wonders how that will effect his teaching. It sounds like he's realized that the traditional "Jedi way" isn't practical, hence his comment about them needing to end. As SubRosa has pointed out many times, the original force users embraced more balance than what we saw later Jedi and Sith teach. Perhaps they are moving to that sort of mentality, considering that both the Jedi ideal and Sith ideal have failed.