QUOTE(SubRosa @ Mar 30 2017, 01:11 AM)

So I wonder why he wrote the Jedi Order as being so unbalanced toward the light? Was it intentional, because he wanted it to be clear that their own straying from the path of balance was in part responsible for their downfall? Or was it just a [censored] up in the writing?
I think Lucas was kind of boxed in really.
In the original trilogy, Obi-Wan and Yoda are training Luke to kill his father, and are keeping him ignorant of that fact. They're weaponising him. Especially when you consider the fact that Vader knew exactly who Luke was, because they didn't even try to hide him.
And then in
The Empire strikes Back, when he has a vision of his friends in trouble, Obi-Wan and Yoda both urge him not to leave, to sacrifice his friends in order to complete his training.
And then, in
Return of the Jedi, Luke steps out of the entire Rebellion vs Empire battle to try to save his father. And just for some bonus points, there's that moment when Luke goes to Jabba and force chokes the guards. And there's always the question of where those mind tricks he and Obi-Wan used fall on the scale.
In the original trilogy the Jedi were not the good guys. They were very much grey, at least in their methods, compared to the black and white of the Empire vs Rebellion struggle.
But the Expanded Universe missed that, and built up thousands of years of war after war between the Jedi and the Sith, light side versus dark side. Now, however much Lucas might have disliked the EU, he had to acknowledge that they've kept the franchise going with that, and dropping the Jedi/light vs Sith/dark would have risked alienating a lot of the long standing Star Wars fans.