I've been letting it go in the interest of actually having some discussion around here, for the first time in years, but I'm going to have to put the mod hat on right now. The talk in these show threads has skirted too close to politics for my liking. Please watch phrases like "progressive ideologies" "too much agenda" etc. Also watch the skirting close to foul language. (I'm talking to everyone, not just one person.)
News flash: ideologies and agendas extend far beyond the realms of religious and political theatres.
Why would there always be only two? It made sense that at some point someone said enough infighting and implemented that rule. But it's way too dangerous to have always been in effect.
To paraphrase what DSW has continually shown with their incompetent handling of the franchise: if a preestablished character's limited knowledge of galactic history said it, then it HAS TO BE. I.e. Yoda: "Always two there are. No more, no less." So George's character said it and that makes it an all encompassing world build point.
In contrast, I devised a way to circumvent the groan-fest mechanic of midichlorians being the connection to the Force. I know George wanted a way to have a definite metric with which to measure Force strength, and he was kind of onto something. But instead of the MC count defining Force strength, why not flip it: MCs thrive in Force sensative beings. So the stronger you are in the Force, the higher your count is. It achieves the same goal, but without the painfully dogmatic McGuffin.
I've always thought the same kind of thing. All your eggs in one basket. Just having two doesn't make them any safer from outside threats. Only two doesn't makes the odds better for more than two to survive. I've got twelve and six get cracked? Six remaining is better than two at the start.
I would love to hear more of your thoughts or opinions on this idea in more details!
Pro-con. Bane instituted Revan's logic, and refined it. Revan believed that there should always be 1 master to 1 apprentice to ensure that a strong master could not be usurped by multiple weak apprentices....like what happened to Treya
. Only a strong apprentice would have what it took to take the place of the master, and thus strengthen the Sith as a whole. Bane went further by limiting the Sith to number ONLY 2 so that they would exist only in rumor, since the Jedi believed that the order was completely exterminated on Ruusan. He believed that the power of the dark side was like a bottle wine; there's only so much to go around, and the only way to make it go further was to dilute it. With only 2, the dark side power would be concetrated and more potent. I also heard it theorized, and have explained before, (some believing that Bane understood this and counted on it, others that it was merely a side effect that aided his cause) that because there were tens of thousands of Jedi and only two Sith for over a millennium, that the Force pushed back and allowed the Jedi to be destroyed in order to "bring balance to the Force." Something about Anakin fulfilling some prophecy and a green dude conjecturing that it was misinterpretted.
