TheBoost said:
Vaderisnothayden said:

As for the Sith, logically if there's only 2 Sith and many Jedi and the Jedi are sitting pretty as the guardians of the republic and the Sith have to work in secret, then the imbalance is that the Jedi are too powerful. But I don't think that's what George meant by imbalance.

The Dark Side itself is the imbalance. Jedi and Sith aren't two equally valid viewpoints. The Dark Side is intrinsically bad. The imbalance was that the Sith existed and had been growing in power and influence for 1000 years.

If that's Lucas's intention that's dumb. The traditional view of balance (re good and evil) in fiction is that good and evil are both part of the natural order and both have a place. To talk about balance in the films while favoring a view of only-the-good-side-is-allowed is idiotic. If he wants to knock out the dark side entirely he shouldn't put in talk about balance. Balance is when you balance between opposing things, not when you have only one thing and eradicate the other. George, if you're not interested in balance don't talk about balance.

And there's identifying passion with the dark side. Passion is what makes us human. It's an essential part of life and human nature. To identify passion with the dark side while portraying the Jedi ideal as basically not feeling is pretty awful. That's a message that feeling is evil and that we shouldn't feel. Horrible message.

So balance is when the side that's associated with feeling is gotten rid of? That's a bent message.