Archived While Darth Vader is renowned for being a great villain, he was a pretty subpar strategist (flickeringmyth.com)
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Archived While Darth Vader is renowned for being a great villain, he was a pretty subpar strategist (flickeringmyth.com)
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[–] Shagoosty 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
He brought balance to the force. He killed every skilled force user on both sides. That's way more balanced than 100 light side users and 2 dark.
[–] Chiefpacman 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
That is true. I wondered why Yoda and crew figured killing the Sith would bring balance. If anything it would do the opposite.
[–] 3050530? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They only said that because the screenwriter thought it sounded cool. He didn't put one more yotta of thought into it, and it's painful for me to take it as seriously as the things in IV and V.
Lucas himself describes the culmination of the prophecy as Vader throwing the Emperor down a mineshaft, which actually makes less sense, because at that point there are more Jedi than there are Sith. With a prophecy to "bring balance to the force," he would've succeeded after killing the Jedi, and that would be the logical end of the prophecy.
Like I said, this shit is so poorly written that you break the fourth wall just by giving it the smallest amount of scrutiny. The only way to patch it up is to invent fan theories and cherry-picked nonsense from various expanded universe stuff.