Nice in theory, doesn't fit the OLD EU/Clone Wars Cartoons lore (which was heavily supervised by Lucas.) Though I get the whole need to try and place blame on someone! In the old EU the Jedi and the Sith had been going about this war for a very long time. Sometimes the Sith won. Sometimes the Jedi won. This whole thing with Sidious was just the next part of the cycle. Qui Gon, Sidious, Jedi Order, all pawns. To Chaos or rather Abeloth.
The whole prophecy regarding Anakin bring balance to the force is not addressed in the movies, it got addressed in the Clone Wars cartoon. (Not a good decision.) If anyone is interested: So, there were original beings/users of the force, a Father, who was balance, and he had a Son and a Daughter. One represented the light side (Daughter), and the other represented the dark side (Son). They had a "mother" who kept the peace. And when the "mother" who was mortal, became Abeloth or Chaos, they had to imprison her in the Maw. Whenever she escaped, the three would imprison her again. Without the mother being peacekeeper, The Son tried to kill the Father, the Daughter got in the way and died. The Father mortally wounded himself to cut the Son off from the force essentially and Anakin killed the Son. What Anakin was SUPPOSED to do... was take the Father's place as the "Balancer" of the force and Anakin refused. Leaving Chaos imprisoned, at some point going to escape... and no one to really oppose her. (And in the old EU she did escape post New Jedi Order and... it didn't end well.)
This whole Anakin killing Palpatine to "redeem" himself was rather meaningless. No one really won as both sides were decimated. Chaos is still out there with no one to oppose her. Or to remember... she exists. (Eep.) The cycle essentially continues for the Sith and the Jedi as they continue to try and kill each other without no one to go "no, bad. Stop fighting. Both are needed."
All Qui Gon did was get Anakin to the "call to action" part of Anakin's journey, then Anakin refused the call and... that's hardly Qui Gon's fault. (The whole Star Wars thing is a nested Hero's Journey within Hero's Journeys. It's Hero's Journeys all the way down.) The Father could have shown up on Tatooine at any time. Anakin's journey is a FAILED hero's journey. And if you only see the movies, it is very poorly executed.
Goodness knows what they're going to do now for new canon, since Favreau and Filoni are still dragging all their clone wars/mandalorian cartoon lore into the new series they're making. And how much you like their cartoon clone war stuff is really going to influence how much you care if they put it in the new shows. Right now, it's mostly just very, very... confusing.
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The whole prophecy regarding Anakin bring balance to the force is not addressed in the movies, it got addressed in the Clone Wars cartoon. (Not a good decision.) If anyone is interested: So, there were original beings/users of the force, a Father, who was balance, and he had a Son and a Daughter. One represented the light side (Daughter), and the other represented the dark side (Son). They had a "mother" who kept the peace. And when the "mother" who was mortal, became Abeloth or Chaos, they had to imprison her in the Maw. Whenever she escaped, the three would imprison her again. Without the mother being peacekeeper, The Son tried to kill the Father, the Daughter got in the way and died. The Father mortally wounded himself to cut the Son off from the force essentially and Anakin killed the Son. What Anakin was SUPPOSED to do... was take the Father's place as the "Balancer" of the force and Anakin refused. Leaving Chaos imprisoned, at some point going to escape... and no one to really oppose her. (And in the old EU she did escape post New Jedi Order and... it didn't end well.)
This whole Anakin killing Palpatine to "redeem" himself was rather meaningless. No one really won as both sides were decimated. Chaos is still out there with no one to oppose her. Or to remember... she exists. (Eep.) The cycle essentially continues for the Sith and the Jedi as they continue to try and kill each other without no one to go "no, bad. Stop fighting. Both are needed."
All Qui Gon did was get Anakin to the "call to action" part of Anakin's journey, then Anakin refused the call and... that's hardly Qui Gon's fault. (The whole Star Wars thing is a nested Hero's Journey within Hero's Journeys. It's Hero's Journeys all the way down.) The Father could have shown up on Tatooine at any time. Anakin's journey is a FAILED hero's journey. And if you only see the movies, it is very poorly executed.
Goodness knows what they're going to do now for new canon, since Favreau and Filoni are still dragging all their clone wars/mandalorian cartoon lore into the new series they're making. And how much you like their cartoon clone war stuff is really going to influence how much you care if they put it in the new shows. Right now, it's mostly just very, very... confusing.