The original series was the least egregious, although I guess you could make the argument that the prequels barely ever pretended Anakin wasn't the specialest of special boys.
"What if the special boy was evil?" could have been a fun subversion of the trope. But the prequels were so horribly Disneyfied, even before they got bought out, that we lost the plot in all the tropes.
Incidentally, one reason why Heir to the Empire was good, too. Mara Jade's whole motive is the belief that Special Boys destroy the balance of the Force. She also implies that Anakin fulfilled the prophecy to bring balance by doing Jedi Jenocide.
But also there were a bunch of Sith cults in the Extended Universe. And even in the core movie series, you had multiple different Sith apprentices being juggled by Sidious.
I wish they had gone way deeper into Lucas-brain for them. Literally just quadruple the fuck down on midi-chlorians and make it about the Whills. The Force as just mystical vibes-driven telepathy powers is way less interesting than that stuff being a minor side-effect of a galactic ecology where human life sits on the big-stupid-resources-factory end of a harmonious symbiotic relation with a microbial superintelligence, like Dune but we're the sandworms now.
The original series was the least egregious, although I guess you could make the argument that the prequels barely ever pretended Anakin wasn't the specialest of special boys.
The sequels really were the worst offenders
Oh shit it looks like the bad guys went out and bought a six pack of death stars, how will we ever solve this one????
Somehow, Palpatine is back!!!
Hey now, it's different because this time the Death Star is EVEN HUEGER!!1
"What if the special boy was evil?" could have been a fun subversion of the trope. But the prequels were so horribly Disneyfied, even before they got bought out, that we lost the plot in all the tropes.
Incidentally, one reason why Heir to the Empire was good, too. Mara Jade's whole motive is the belief that Special Boys destroy the balance of the Force. She also implies that Anakin fulfilled the prophecy to bring balance by doing Jedi Jenocide.
2 sith 1200 jedi
is this balance?
By the end it was 2 Sith and 1 Jedi.
But also there were a bunch of Sith cults in the Extended Universe. And even in the core movie series, you had multiple different Sith apprentices being juggled by Sidious.
I wish they had gone way deeper into Lucas-brain for them. Literally just quadruple the fuck down on midi-chlorians and make it about the Whills. The Force as just mystical vibes-driven telepathy powers is way less interesting than that stuff being a minor side-effect of a galactic ecology where human life sits on the big-stupid-resources-factory end of a harmonious symbiotic relation with a microbial superintelligence, like Dune but we're the sandworms now.