Jaitea said:
TMBTM said:
An evil Jedi is not a Sith.
There could be many evil Jedi (Jedi turning bad), but two Sith at a time, according to Yoda (who is in fact George Lucas here...)
But an evil Jedi can become a Sith (or not. He can just stay an evil Jedi).
I know but right from the start in all the merchandising & promotion in 1977 Darth Vader was known as 'Dark Lord of the Sith'......I had a T-shirt with that on it in '77
Sith wasn't mentioned on film till episode 1 in '99, but between '77 and then, if you were into SW you knew a Jedi gone bad was a Sith,...and back then you could probably have a whole host of them
J
Yep, retrospectively that's very true. "Sith" is even in the novelisation of SW, IIRC. So Sith always were, and still are the opposite of the Jedi. But "the rule of two" comes in the way when it comes to think about the future of the Sith for the sequel trilogy. Since both last Sith died in ROTJ you can't have Sith anymore, only evil Jedi, or evil users of the Force. Unless some Sith were carbon frozen somewhere in the galaxy or cloned...
EDIT: but thinking about it, even the clone of a Sith would not be a Sith without the teaching of a Master... (in the prequels they established cloning as being creating babies, who then are growing fast. Not a direct adult clone of someone with full memory of his past.)
Unless those new evil users of the Force just call themselve "Sith" in hommage to the ancient Sith... Brain explodes.