if you would join us hey everyone and welcome back to another video today
we're gonna be covering more of labyrinth of evil now if you've been
keeping up with this series then you're all cut up so let's continue today's is
gonna cover something pretty cool now my question to you is how is Darth Sidious
seemingly always ten steps ahead of his opponents and allies alike is it because
he's become so powerful in the dark side that he can always discern events to
come that he can literally see the future if you will the answer I have is
not really at least not according to his set apprentice Count Dooku as the
separatist leader awaits Anakin Skywalker and obi-wan Kenobi who are
making their way to his chamber on the planet tithe the book labyrinth of evil
by James Asano talks more about how Count Dooku compares Yoda and Sidious
the count reflects on the difference between how Yoda and Sidious view the
force with Sidious embracing it fully while Yoda deliberately limits himself
or at least that's how duke who sees it here's the excerpt and then as usual
we'll talk about once again Darth Sidious had divined the actions they
would take well in advance of their own deciding the talent had less to do with
being able to peer into the future than with having access to streams of
possibilities Sidious wasn't unerring he could be surprised or taken off his
guard as at Genesis as in the case of gunray's mech no chair but not for long
his mastery of the dark side of the force endowed him with the power to
decipher the currents that comprise the future and to comprehend that while
those currents were manifold they were not boundless such mastery was one of
the skills that distinguished Sidious from Yoda who believed the future was so
much in motion it could not be read with any clarity especially during times when
the darkside was on the ascendant but how could you oughta be expected to see
the whole picture with one eye closed deliberately closed the Jedi accepted as
a matter of faith that embracing the dark side meant cutting themselves off
from the light when in fact the darkside opened one to the full range of the
force there was after all only the force it was unfortunate for the Jedi that
they believed the force was theirs alone to use an honor that sense of
entitlement was evident in the way Kenobi and Skywalker called on the force
in their fervor to come front him opening doors with waves of
their hands clearing obstacles from their path with similar gestures moving
with what appeared to be numinous speed and agility flourishing their blue
blades as if they were powered by the will of the force itself while at the
same time oblivious so as we can see Sidious can't really know the future for
certain but the dark side does allow him to narrow the possibilities towards
outcomes that are more probable than others can even manipulate events in
order to help shift the future to what he wants kind of like qui-gon in the
chance cube but on a grander scale whereas Yoda can see the future
possibilities as well but he considers them to be too in flux to ever really be
certain what the outcome will be is that because the Sith try to push for a
certain future while the Jedi simply accept whatever is to come canna seem so
sometimes it's the will of the force after all as they say whereas the Sith
really want to bend that will and make it what they want now I'm not too sure
but the Jedi have glimpsed the future and altered it before so there have been
various apocalyptic visions in the history of the Jedi that the order has
attempted to prevent and at time successfully so also is there just one
force as Dooku stipulates and the so-called dark side clouds the future
for the Jedi only because their order deliberately limits their power due to
being too conservative with what the force can really offer is the dark side
actually another name for the full spectrum of the force dark just means
unknown instead of evil while the light is just one side of it or are the Jedi
correct in order to truly embrace the dark side you have to cut off the light
completely wasn't that Vader's constant struggle wouldn't the full spectrum be
an even balance between the light and the dark so our grey Jedi the only ones
using the force and balance or does balance mean something else something
more complex than simply having the galaxy being tipped on an even amount
between light and dark sides for me I always felt like Yoda and the Jedi Order
at least on the prequels really limited themselves to everything and the true
power that they could have had when they just looked at the force as two
different sides when they could just use it in its entirety force lightning and
all but they would be the governors over how they would use that power Dumbledore
said something that I think really puts Yoda to shame in this philosophy here he
said it is not our abilities who make us who we are but our choices
or at least something like that I'm paraphrasing and it's really true it
just shows you that Hugh and Dumbledore really knew exactly what was going on
with someone's power so like Voldemort had super okay I'm going on the Harry
Potter theory train now but what I'm trying to say is Vader could have used
his powers for good Sidious could have used his powers for
good Yoda could have used his powers for evil it really doesn't matter how strong
you are or what type of the force you use sure I understand that once you
start down the dark path forever will it dominate your destiny but there have
been those that stray in between and just use the force as the force itself
and I think if you can master this I think if you can truly level up to the
point where you can master this fully and be in control of your powers and
emotions then you can really use the Force however you see fit
so the Jedi could use it for good but using the entirety of the force and the
SIF could use it for good as well also using the entirety of the force or of
course vice versa so it's interesting to see Dooku's take on both of his masters
I enjoyed this little excerpt from the novel hope you enjoyed it too and I'll
see you in the next one until then remember the force will be with you
always
fulfill your destiny
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