Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"
Canconda@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Luke can use dark and light side force abilities. What makes him different from other similarly capable users like Darth Tyranus or Yoda is that he didn’t use the force to create a power structure. Everyone else, including Obiwan, was using the force to perpetuate an empire, a jedi temple, a senate, some sort of artificial construct that in would inevitably lead to imbalance in the force.
Luke trained Jedi with the goal of protecting life in general.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I always get kind of annoyed with Avatar’s squeamish around blood bending. Like, why? Why is that worse than hitting them in the head with a giant rock?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Oh, there’s a Nickelodeon TV show called Avatar: The Last Airbender where people have telekinetic ability called bending, but limited to a single element (Earth, Air, Fire, Water). There’s an episode where a character is forced to bend the water inside someone’s blood to prevent her from killing people and it’s made out as a step towards evil, like a dark-sided Force power, whereas it’s really just one more way to use bending to force people to your will, just like bending a rock at their heads.
Avatar has some impressive depth to it and the writing is impeccable; definitely and always a kid’s show first, but I discovered it as an adult so it has a lot to offer. Just make sure to watch the original animated series and not the Netflix live-action caricature (and not to be confused with Avatar: Dances with Wolves in Space).
Canconda@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago