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Oh, are we not doing the spoiler thing? Fair enough. I think I'm the last one on here to watch it most times, anyway.
Well, I don't think there's a canonically correct stance - either balance between dark and light, or darkness being eradicated - is there? With one official source backing one, and another backing the other. Now, don't know where they're going with this, but it looks like they're still not clearing it up - which is fine, it provides a lot to think about, it's just annoying when you try to figure out which one you should believe to be true.
As for the episode itself, it was okay. Well, I liked it. No idea why. I guess because it didn't go too much against what I already knew. As for Qui-Gon? I can actually believe that he wouldn't think it was really him. I just thought that, at the time he'd readily think it was his old master, but afterwards, after hearing about Anakin's apparition of his mother, he'd not entirely believe it to be true, that it was simply a trick. As I watched it, I remembered Ewan's face in episode III, when Yoda told him about his future training, that look of surprise and seemingly contemplative eyes. Retroactive fitting, I know, but re-watching it in my mind's eye I could easily think that he was reliving his night in that cave.
The only thing that didn't ring absolutely true was when the old man said only the Chosen One could have the power to rescue them both. To me, being to Chosen One was never about power, but rather being the person that made the choices, the person who was there, to bring balance to the Force - through his actions, not his power.
But, earlier, when I said how many times can they bring balance, was referring to the other times where it looks like someone has done so - most noticeably during KOTOR II, I believe.
I ask you, when has his absolute power come in to play? I mean directly. I believe it was only a tool of the Force to get him recognised, but beyond that it wasn't used much. In episode I, he gets recognised as very powerful, yes, but was it raw power that made him win the podrace, or simple basic skill in the Force, combined wih Qui-Gon's trust in him. I feel that having someone's faith in you is more potent than any measure of skill or luck. After all, he was the only force sensitive in that race. Who's to say Obi-Wan could not ave easily won it?
In the battle above Naboo? Did he force the shields down, destroy the Trade Federation ship with a wink of his eye? Or was it his ability, or some could say luck, to merely survive?
In episode II, he took out an entire village of Tusken Raiders. Through refined absolute power? Or was the element o surprise and his will and bloodlust and ire and competency with a lightsabre enough to pull him through?
Later, in the arena, he does well to last as long as he did, but so did others, and he was supposedly much more powerful than those - even Padme. I think it was merely skill and, again, his luck to get though unscathed that saw him through - but that didn't last long against Dooku, did it?
In episode III he was a great warrior, the best starpilot in the galaxy. But was that a demostration of his powr? He was a seasoned veteran, who honed his natural skill through years of training and battle combat. As did Wedge, and he had none of this power. He defeated Dooku, at last, but I saw no power, only skill that most weaponsmasters have. Besides, all those hours of frustration of bickering with Ahsoka had to be let out somewhere. Poor Dooku was simply the unlucky outlet.
Later, he takes the fight to the Temple - against younglngs and old Jedi. Yes. He needed a lot of power there, didn't he?
And against Obi-Wan on Mustafar. Okay. He may have had power flowing through him, fueled by hate and anger, but it got him nowhere but a walking life support suit.
In the dark times, he fought the last of the Jedi. He fought with Legions of stormtroopers against singular Jedi. But he had the suit, so he must be powerful enough to overcome that, surely? Ah, but this he overcame through training.
In episode IV he fought Ben who, I'm convinced, put on a very half hearted show. He knew Luke needed something to drive him on to become a Jedi, and sacrificed himself.
And, later, in the Trench he was taken out by a green pilot. Very powerful.
He commanded with an iron fist, but his power was untested in those years, save for a half trained Jedi.
And, finally, episode VI, he fought his son. The irrascible scamp beat him, of course, but that is not the point. Because I direct your attention to the death of the Emperor. He did not use unlimited power to defeat hm in a duel that lit the heavens. He threw him down a shaft. He used not a jot of his considerable power to bring balance to the Force there.
It was his choices, I believe, that made him the Chosen One, not his power. He chose to race, and his skill got him through. He chose (albeit in a roundabout way) to fly, and luck (or the will of the Force?) got him through.
He chose to kill those Raiders. Skill, yes, but anger gave him the day. He chose to kill them, just as his skill saved him in the arena, fight Dooku, and he chose to deny the teachings of the Jedi and marry Padme.
He chose the Dark Side ad killed the Jedi, chose to turn his back on his wife and friend.
He chose to kill the Jedi and chose personal power.
He chose to redeem himself and defeat the Emperor.
Who's to say that any other Jedi, one less powerful but sufficiently trained, would not make the same choices and thus bring balance to the Force?
So, yeah, that bit about only the Chosen One being powerful enouh to sve his two friends? Didn't annoy me much at all 
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