>>64691198
Yes.

>>64691198
you know it's odd you should mention this

I think Lucas was trying to say something here about the Catholic Church getting too involved in worldly affairs, weakening their moral authority.

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>>64691198

Wait, the force wasn't with the Jedi?

>>64693379
Mentioned a few times in the second and third movies.

"Clouded by the dark side, my vision is."

He says that when he speaks with Anakin about his nightmare of Padmé dying.

>>64691198
Why did Yoda run away from Sheev like a little bitch?

Yoda didn't specify, but the "diminishing" of the Force seemed only to apply to their clairvoyant abilities. This is kind of like in Dune where the Guild Navigators' ability to see the long-term future is clouded by the presence of a more powerful psychic - the Kwisatz Haderach. It's kind of implied later in the Dune series that the most powerful clairvoyant, Leto 2 (the half-sandworm) has such a powerful vision of the future it locks in everyone else, so no free will is possible.

So maybe Palpatine's dark side power is so great it kind of locks out the Jedi from being able to predict or influence the future and the Jedi have become so used to having the ability that, like the Guild in Dune, they can't see what's right in front of their faces.

>>64692224
pretty much this. the catholic church is so heavily invested in politics and governments that their foundation becomes shifting sands.

>>64691198
if you think the prequels was remotely good writing

The force is about balance. Did you see how many jedi there were compared to sith in Ep 1-3? That's why the Sith are so strong; the force is divided equally between the sith and the jedi.

Anakin literally brought balance to the force by killing jedi children.

>>64696017
>he actually believes the light and dark side are sides of the same coin
top kek
>inb4 but muh clone wars
the dark side is a perversion of the force, not a part of it