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[–] Chiefpacman 0 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.

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[–] 3050530? 0 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.

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[–] Chiefpacman ago  (edited ago)

Fair enough, but 'bringing balance to the force' is a vague prophecy. The Matrix took the same path, hard to poke holes in a prophecy that's hard to pinpoint to begin with.