TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

Maybe I need to give up my vision of full on Jedi vs Dark Jedi battle.

The way I see it, Vader is special. He betrayed and murdered the Jedi. If he's one of a giant army of Dark Jedi, he beceomes significantly less special.

I also don't see in the OT any sense that the struggle of the past was bad Jedi vs good Jedi. The Jedi were guardians of peace until the dark times... until the Empire, not "until a bunch of Jedi either turned bad, or another competing force of bad Jedi had war with us."

I think the delted scene about the lost 24 seems to back you up here. Personally, I don't buy it. How could there not be Dark Jedi? How could there not be Dark Jedi in almost equal number to Light Jedi? It's the line that all Jedi must walk, right? Does the Force only speak to the pure in heart? If so, then there is no threat of Luke becoming Vader II (or III or IV or LXI) and you need some kind of convoluted reason for why Anakin fell.

If the Jedi can just as easily be bad as good, then it makes them a big X-factor for the normal citizens of the galaxy and it just might be easier if they all went away and the proverbial baby was thrown out with the proverbial bath water.