Jaitea said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Jaitea said:
he was a evil Jedi....who are called Sith
I miss the days when "Sith" wasn't synonymous with "evil Jedi".
What was 'Sith' synonymous with before Star Wars?
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Was the above a typo? I didn't make the claim that the Sith preceeded Star Wars.
Anyway ... my comment was referring to the Sith as they were developed in the EU prior to the PT, when they were portrayed as a distinct culture of darksiders in their own right rather than just a pack of nondescript Mirror Universe Jedi.
Owyn_Merrilin said:
Also with the whole Sith thing, Timothy Zahn mentions something kind of cool in the annotated version of Heir to the Empire, which is that when he was writing the book, nobody aside from Lucas himself actually knew what a Sith was -- for all anyone knew, it could be a species or a group that Vader ruled over in his spare time. He actually wanted the Noghri to be called the Sith, and he described them to look kind of like Vader's armor, and imply that it was based on them, but Lucas nixed the name. It's also why older EU novels were so big on the phrase "dark Jedi." The writers weren't entirely sure what a Sith was, so they went with something a bit more simple and descriptive, starting with Zahn.
It should be noted that the idea of the Sith as a species actually found its way into the EU later on (long story short: the Sith was a race which was conquered by, and later interbred with, a group of exiled Dark Jedi); I wonder if Zahn's original idea was the inspiration behind that development.