The Star Wars Rants:

[Midget_Yoda]

I think the gist of the idea is that the whole dynamic of the Sith order is to obtain power. In the Master/Apprentice set up the Master has the power, the Apprentice wants it. As soon as you have two masters (or two apprentices) the very nature of the Dark Side is that they'll start ganging up on one-another rather than the enemy.

The obvious question to this notion is that isn't promotion via the Masters curly shoes and hence the apprentice is set up from teh start to try to kill the boss? Well, yes but that's just survival of the fittest - as soon as the Apprentice is powerful enough to off the Master then the Master is clearly no longer of any use, time to bring in a new apprentice who will in time become even stronger than both of them...

Looking at Lucas Ranch, I htink the only reason he implemented the rule was so he could keep the Sith in the shadows and have droids armies gettign killed first by Gungans and then fighting facelss clones rather than an all out scrumdown between cack loads of all too human Force users in the first movie.

[Kudos]

He just wanted an excuse for more CGI

[Midget_Yoda]

Originally Posted by Kudos

He just wanted an excuse for more CGI

Well yeah, that goes without saying :wink:

[jumpin' jellybean]

To paraphrase Kurt Cobain: The Rule of Two makes me want to smoke crack. :evil:

[Midget_Yoda]

Originally Posted by jumpin' jellybean

To paraphrase Kurt Cobain: The Rule of Two makes me want to smoke crack. :evil:

Think we can get Jar Jar to become lead singer for Nirvana? :twisted:

[count_libido]

Originally Posted by TMLS

Sadly, no. But they do Dutch.

Schmoke and a pancake?

[Midget_Yoda]

Originally Posted by count_libido

Schmoke and a pancake?

How about no you crazy pseudo-Mandalorian Bounty Hunter?

[Andrew.poole]

now THAT would be an 'Unplugged' session to see..............

"With em dey Lights out, Itsa lessy dangerous....."

[jumpin' jellybean]

We sa peepuls here, make pratfalls...

[Basileus]

Originally Posted by deGooder

The main thing is the fact that technology has not advanced or changed at all in 4000 years, also the idea of a Sith Army fighting a Jedi Army kinda goes against the only ever two sith at a time suggestion

But technological inovation almost has to become stagnant

4000 years of technological development would have meant that the technology of the PT/OT would have been pretty well unimaginable. Thats why in his Future History, Larry Niven basically stopped at the year 3000.

Likewise, if you if try to creditably devolve the technology back 4000 years from the PT, it would not have felt very Star Warsy.

Anyway, the stagnant technology does go hand in hand with the stagnant Republic.

And while Stars Wars might be classed as Sci-Fi, I wouldn't call it science fiction, it is science-fantasy.