Tall Midget wrote:
1) The Emperor recruits Vader due to his immense power. He certainly would be tyrannical without Vader, but Vader is his most valuable accomplice. To argue otherwise is absurd.
2)If Obi Wan's whole purpose in life is to protect the children, why doesn't he watch them more carefully? He seems to be asleep at the wheel.
3)I'm not sure how your point about "the force always balancing out"--a problematic formulation in itself given the Emperor's homicidal rein--is relevant to my point. Obi Wan hadn't been practicing his Jedi principles for a decade. He then recommits himself and is able to see Qui Gon. This is pretty basic, really, especially since there is no reference to Kenobi being "in balance" with anything following his failure to kill Vader. You have missed the whole point of the actual script and have substituted it with a bunch of nonsensical hypotheses.
1) The Emperor recruited Vader to eliminate the Jedi and humiliate them with their own prodigy. I'm not saying 3rd brother is equal to Vader. He doesn't need to be because Vader already wiped out the majority of the Jedi. Joe Biden could lead the Empire at this point. They rebel forces are just starting to form and have limited power. 3rd brother already made a better choice to chase them and wipe them out but Vader let his emotions get in the way (his weakness) and let them escape so he could kill Kenobi.
Vader may be more powerful but he is too emotional to lead the Empire and ironically leads to the end of the emperor and the destruction of the empire.
2) Ben doesn't want him to be near Luke. He blames him for the "death" of Anakin. Kenobi stayed in the area just out of sight. Kenobi's guilt is what separated him from Luke.
3) "The act of living generates a force field, an energy. That energy surrounds us; when we die, that energy joins with all the other energy. There is a giant mass of energy in the universe that has a good side and a bad side. We are part of the Force because we generate the power that makes the Force live. When we die, we become part of that Force, so we never really die; we continue as part of the Force."
—George Lucas during a production meeting for The Empire Strikes Back
This is how I understand it... Jedi kill Sith; force tilts toward the Sith. More Sith are killed, the more powerful the dark side of the force becomes. Sith kill Jedi; More powerful the light side of the force becomes.