"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.
"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.