Guess that kinda drowned as it was leaked just around the release of VII, but Del Toro himself accidentally said in an interview for some latino publisher that he was cast in VIII and that he wasn't sure if he is a villain or not, but he thinks he might be a villain.
First off, never use "lowkey" like that again.
I don't know...forcing this sort of pseudo-science thing into the series really sucked the wind out of prequel's sails (not that they would have been much better without Midichlorians). The mystical part has always been more appealing.
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Dunno if it's really deux ex machina but that really depends on how they tackle it. We can also have opponents that are superior to Rey in a hand-to-hand combat or swordfighting without the Force. But then again, I think it's the EU that made non-Force users like Boba look pretty powerful.
willing to kill a species that would put the galaxy's police in danger? It's not like all Jedi are good or would be good, some could live in the world of gray instead of black and white.What about the Jedi makes you think they'd have a hand in the extinction of a species?
I think they're called Gray Jedi, and while they're frowned upon by the order, Quigon was, to my knowledge, one and served alongside Jedi. He leaned a lot more to the light, someone like that would have to lean toward the dark.
It's a matter of semantics honestly. A force user who isn't a member of the Jedi Council and isn't a Sith....do they really need to be called Jedi, or is it more out of convenience?
It's about a practice, I think. Luke called himself a Jedi a long time after the fall of the Jedi Council. Ultimately it's about what you practice, if we go by the expanded universe. Sith aren't always called Sith, for example, but also Dark Jedi. Gray Jedi and just normal ol' good Jedi exist as well.
I meant for the sake of the story that the movies will try to tell. I think it's a safer bet that we won't get "gray" with any of the characters, at least not the Force-users. I'd love to be wrong though.
Well, I was reading about the visual guide to the movie and novelization and the whole grey thing is not much of a stretch. According to the extra information the reason smoke got to Ben was because he thought he had the right balance between light and dark. He is not like the sith who were entirely devoted to the dark side. It's not a stretch that his approach to the force would be about balance although in a twisted way. And that would make sense with a fee themes seen in the clone wars TV series which remain cannon. The Jedi strress detachment from emotions and ties. However that detachment is used by the emperor to make them seem like corrupt and their lack of emotional connections turns out to be a weakness. As in that making them loose focus towards important things. Such as when in rots anakin went to consult with Yoda about his visions he was told that he has to learn to let go rather than help him out to save the life of that person. The first six movies amde the point that the force was out of balance and it was anakins job to restore it, which he apparently did. However by the seventh the force had been in a slumber and then it awakened and is apparently unbalanced again. If perhaps the reason Luke left was because after his new Jedi order was destroyed he wanted to find out more about the force and it being balanced. So you have some with what presumably is a twisted version of balance and Luke trying to find balance of the dark and light side of the force. The original Jedi order was just of the light so naturally they couldn't keep balance on their own.
Well, as far as we know qui gon did not look for understanding of the dark side nor used it. IIRC qui gon's issues with the jedi related to his disagreements with them and their way to do things. I wouldn't call qui gon any sort of neutral either.