~ essay on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic saga.
The Star Wars mythos has always been something of an fascination to me. A fascination, and an oddity. So much of what makes the universe and saga is already past in the initial films — Episodes IV, V and VI; the last of an order of space samurai calls a forgotten son into rebellion against a giant imperial state led by a hooded, yellow-eyed ‘Dark Lord’ and his demon-voiced cyber-warrior Dragon by his side who can choke a man out with a thought.
Who were the Jedi and Sith? What is The Force? How did we get here, rebels and the empire, blue sabers versus red?
Beyond being extremified, black and white notions of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ for the sake of crafting a mythological space opera with its requisite heroes and villains in constant opposition — what defines the philosophy of the “Light side” and the “Dark side” of this Force?
https://thresholds-of-transformation.blog/2021/04/27/good-and-evil-in-knights-of-the-old-republic/
