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| Cerrinea wrote: |
Mara offered Jacen the chance of redemption on Coruscant. This idea of redemption comes more from Luke's experience with his father -- which is a unique one. As Skuldren said, Jedi have never had a problem killing Sith -- or Sith killing Jedi for that matter.
It's the eternal war of Light vs. dark.
No matter how you dress it up, Jacen was going down a dark path which in itself negates the whole selfless argument. |
Alright, I've got to reply some manner of disagreement.
First, in Abyss, Mara is clearly atoning for her attempt to kill Jacen. That she didn't tell Luke what she was doing also suggests that she knew it was wrong. If she was interested in redeeming her nephew, she would have told Luke and they would have figured something else out, rather than one person confronting him alone. Instead, she felt Ben was threatened, and instinctively reacted to that in an attempt to eliminate the threat with the utmost expedience, regardless of morality.
Second, I think that the idea of redemption is the boon in Luke's hero's journey, and isn't supposed to be a one-off thing that only works once. It's supposed to be something that the Jedi ALWAYS do. It's the only way to destroy the Sith, to be redeeming them back into being Jedi. Fighting fire with fire doesn't work. In the movies, that's it, and there are no more Sith, and Luke helped destroy them through that means. Although I guess you could get into a more drawn out discussion about how Anakin did it by destroying them from within and so forth.
Obviously more problematic after the NJO when every single story decided that the Sith were the only villains worth using, and in the case of the Lost Tribe in which there's no personal connection to the individuals, it's more difficult, not to mention the sheer numbers, but I think Vestara will inevitably demonstrate that it's possible.
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