While that’s true, let’s not pretend JJ or Rian cared about that concept either. In fact, no one actually cared about it other than Lucas, since Lucas’ idea of the balance is no Sith. Pretty much everyone who wrote things past ROTJ ignored this, EU or Disney, since no Sith villains make for a less exciting franchise.
Sure, but at least none of the ST movies we got ended with “it turns out the Dark Side IS good after all, and that Gray Jedi, something that deeply go against everything about how the force has been depicted thus far in any canonical media and how it was set down by George, are totally right as a concept, even though using the dark side is genuinely inherently corrosive to the user’s soul and unavoidably corrupts their moral core when people are under its unfluence.”
Because that’s where Treverrow’s script goes. You can have a little corruption, as a treat.
since no Sith villains make for a less exciting franchise.
At the the announcement of the Lucasfilm buy-out I had my hopes up for a villian akin to the Yizhon Vohng, an outer galaxy threat. An enemy that threatened the force itself.
Seriously. When I saw TFA, I had figured Luke had been forced into exile to focus on a much larger threat. The tragedy would’ve been he KNEW the First Order was rising and killing his friends, but was forced to see the bigger picture.
This is confusing to me, because TFA straight up tells us exactly why Luke went into exile. When asked, Han says:
He was training a new generation of Jedi. One boy, an apprentice turned against him, destroyed it all. Luke felt responsible… He walked away from everything.
This seems pretty clear to me.