Anakin had also pedestalized Padme and might have even been force controlling her to be in love with him from the start depending on which fan theories you subscribe to.
To answer the question though, it’s not so much romance alone as obsession. The common thread of all stories of falling to the dark side involves fixation on some prize or goal or object of focus that the Jedi chases to the point of losing all control over themselves and their presence in the force.
Not to mention how fallen Jedi tend to be depicted as much more…angsty than their full fledged sith counterparts. Especially in media like SWTOR there’s a deep contrast between people who adopt the dark side and people who are part of it from the start. For adopters it’s a drug you can overdose on, for people steeped in it from the beginning it’s a steroid that still eventually destroys them but which isn’t a high to pursue in itself.
might have even been force controlling her to be in love with him from the start depending on which fan theories you subscribe to.
Man, that is a hilarious idea for explaining away the stiff dialog and delivery. Do you have any links handy? I really hope there’s more to that theory than that.
Idk if there’s any actual evidence for it. Just theory brought up by EU storylines. Like force connections where two people are connected through the force in a way that they can influence each other.
It’s the same power used in the theory of Padme’s death. The theory is that Anakin stole her energy through the force without realizing and killed her to save himself. So if they were already connected to the point Anakin could subconsciously push her into loving him he could just push that a step further and steal her life energy.
I’m reading the entire legends/EU series chronologically, about 1/3 the way through right now, on The Cestus Deception. Which is during the Clone Wars.
To answer the question though, it’s not so much romance alone as obsession. The common thread of all stories of falling to the dark side involves fixation on some prize or goal or object of focus that the Jedi chases to the point of losing all control over themselves and their presence in the force.
That’s a great point, but it doesn’t account for all the cases where it allows the Jedi to get through a tough situation and be better for it even. I didn’t want to broaden it too much myself, but a lot of jedis have other attachments, wheter it be their padawan braid… a specific look, or fighting style, almost every padawan is an attachment, if they weren’t, their training wouldn’t work.
For example, Obi wouldn’t be Obi and be able to handle his padawan if it wasn’t for the hardships of overcoming his attachments and using it to help him keep Ani in line.
The Jedi is a cult of hypocrisies and using others to achieve their goals. Also, the main reason why they indoctrinate children is too prevent the sith from getting them first, not such a good look.
Haha in all seriousness though, it’s great how deep the lore goes and how back and forth the black and white goes between the sith and jedi.
IMO Chaos from 40k represents what the Dark Side should represent better, pure bottomless descent.
It keeps taking and taking and taking until there’s nothing left, and then it makes you into a vessel to take from others to sate what you alone no longer can.
It’s damnation, but it’s also an addiction, it’s always eluding you and dancing further away for you to pursue for the next high, and no matter how close you get in that high, no matter how horrified you are by the true face of what you’re chasing when it’s in view, the new low you’ve brought yourself to for what you’re chasing, the new feat of horror you’ve subjected yourself and at this point your victims to, once it’s beyond your reach once more you can’t help but fall for the beautiful lie once more and resume the chase.
Darth Sidious isn’t a pinnacle of the dark side, he’s just the strongest crab in the bucket.
Anakin had also pedestalized Padme and might have even been force controlling her to be in love with him from the start depending on which fan theories you subscribe to.
To answer the question though, it’s not so much romance alone as obsession. The common thread of all stories of falling to the dark side involves fixation on some prize or goal or object of focus that the Jedi chases to the point of losing all control over themselves and their presence in the force.
Not to mention how fallen Jedi tend to be depicted as much more…angsty than their full fledged sith counterparts. Especially in media like SWTOR there’s a deep contrast between people who adopt the dark side and people who are part of it from the start. For adopters it’s a drug you can overdose on, for people steeped in it from the beginning it’s a steroid that still eventually destroys them but which isn’t a high to pursue in itself.
Man, that is a hilarious idea for explaining away the stiff dialog and delivery. Do you have any links handy? I really hope there’s more to that theory than that.
Idk if there’s any actual evidence for it. Just theory brought up by EU storylines. Like force connections where two people are connected through the force in a way that they can influence each other.
It’s the same power used in the theory of Padme’s death. The theory is that Anakin stole her energy through the force without realizing and killed her to save himself. So if they were already connected to the point Anakin could subconsciously push her into loving him he could just push that a step further and steal her life energy.
It’s theorized that palps the one that did it, iirc in EU he steals other people’s life force to stay alive already.
Cant recall the sith Holocron it came from, but there’s definitely past sith who abused it.
If it’s legends material it could have deffo been Nihilus, man eats entire planets to sustain himself
Stang, it was Bane, not Palps.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Holocron_of_Heresies
I’m reading the entire legends/EU series chronologically, about 1/3 the way through right now, on The Cestus Deception. Which is during the Clone Wars.
That’s a great point, but it doesn’t account for all the cases where it allows the Jedi to get through a tough situation and be better for it even. I didn’t want to broaden it too much myself, but a lot of jedis have other attachments, wheter it be their padawan braid… a specific look, or fighting style, almost every padawan is an attachment, if they weren’t, their training wouldn’t work.
For example, Obi wouldn’t be Obi and be able to handle his padawan if it wasn’t for the hardships of overcoming his attachments and using it to help him keep Ani in line.
The Jedi is a cult of hypocrisies and using others to achieve their goals. Also, the main reason why they indoctrinate children is too prevent the sith from getting them first, not such a good look.
Haha in all seriousness though, it’s great how deep the lore goes and how back and forth the black and white goes between the sith and jedi.
IMO Chaos from 40k represents what the Dark Side should represent better, pure bottomless descent.
It keeps taking and taking and taking until there’s nothing left, and then it makes you into a vessel to take from others to sate what you alone no longer can.
It’s damnation, but it’s also an addiction, it’s always eluding you and dancing further away for you to pursue for the next high, and no matter how close you get in that high, no matter how horrified you are by the true face of what you’re chasing when it’s in view, the new low you’ve brought yourself to for what you’re chasing, the new feat of horror you’ve subjected yourself and at this point your victims to, once it’s beyond your reach once more you can’t help but fall for the beautiful lie once more and resume the chase.
Darth Sidious isn’t a pinnacle of the dark side, he’s just the strongest crab in the bucket.