Royalties mixed with the delusion they can make something better and contempt for aliens since they take away from fictional ethnic struggle since they are too retarded to be trusted around a writing implement. They'd rather 100% of nothing than 90% of something.
It's basically the ego of these new creators who waltz in and think they can do something better than what was already established, so they try to throw out as much of the old aesthetic as possible and go with what they want. It's been there since the 2008 Clone Wars, where a lot of things got changed despite the Clone Wars EU being airtight about a lot of things.
Jar Jar is the perfect allegory for the morons who vote for their own doom. He convinced the Senate to grant Palpatine emergency powers, two movies later, the old man shuts down the Senate.
Didn't he do that in the episode 2 ?
Given that the Acolyte is leaning towards making the sith come off as the protagonists and have called them the underdogs, they're probably going to be treated as good guys in that pile of shit.
This is their brain on post-modern.
That's a given.
I doubt it'll go that far. I mean, in the end, we are talking about Disney and the current crop of writers who usually scream ''fascist man bad'', and the Sith are space fascists in every sense of the word. Hell, they made the Empire and the Sith in the main OT timeline less sympathetic, removing more of the redeemable traits of Vader, Palpatine, and their Empire, just to preach the message that they're evil. Bad Batch especially, they removed the fact that the Emperor remained faithful to the Clone Army and only replaced them seven years into his reign, and that was because the Kaminoans betrayed him first. And even then, Fett clones continued to serve; 1/4th of all Stormtroopers by the time of Endor were Fett clones.
The Sith do and should exist during the time of The Acolyte - it's just that they can't be out in the open. They're literally running a secret society of just two individuals - Rule of Two in full action, a master and an apprentice - working behind the scenes to manipulate the galaxy and move events in their favor. Darth Sidious finally gaining control of the Republic and turning it into the Galactic Empire was the culmination of over 1,000 years of planning.
Unless everyone that encounters or knows about them dies.
He already had emergency powers before the Clone Wars started proper. The issue in Revenge of the Sith was that he was still in office longer than he was supposed to be (12-13 years after he was elected) and the Jedi were concerned he might not give up those powers once the fighting was over. Mace Windu's initial reason to visit Palpatine was to make sure he ceded control back to the Senate.
How does this reconcile with the whole "balance in the force" concept? I may be talking out of my arse here but I thought the Star Wars universe prohibits the forces of darkness being so limited whilst the forces of light are so much more prevalent. Though maybe with Harvey's chief enabler ditching good/evil, right/wrong in favour of who's allowed to exercise power, balance in the force becomes redundant.
Frankly, the whole prophecy of the chosen one and "bringing balance to the force" just came off to me as one of those half-cocked ideas George had that sounded great but he just wasn't able to successfully execute in the span of three movies. The furthest they tried to explore it in the Clone Wars TV series that came afterwards was that one weird trippy-ass arc with the "Force Gods" that none of the characters involved made any mention of again.
Oh yeah, it's the Rick Worley special edition video. It has been shared here on this thread before:
And frankly, it's your loss for not watching it. This is one of very, very, VERY few videos about Star Wars that is actually worth sitting through. Do you have any idea how much of a rarity it is to find one of those? To find a video about SW on YouTube that isn't either surface level, full of misinformed "common knowledge" or just plain grifting? You might not care about his conclusions, but I do think Rick brings a lot of interesting points, and I genuinely agree with pretty much everything he says here.
Perhaps they'll be nuSith. They'll call themselves GRAY Sith! Neither light nor darkness, only POWAH! Don't mind the red lightsabers, selfishness, and power-hungry attitude, the gray Sith are the real good guys because both Jedi and oldSith are 'too narrow-minded'. Expect lots of whining about the damn Jedi being too passive and the Sith too exclusive due to the rule of two. What about all the black women who want to use and abuse the Force as they see fit?! Who is this little green man to tell me torturing my oppressor with Force lightning is bad and I should not do it?!
