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.
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.