A reflection on the introduction of Sith to the prequels

Why did the prequels introduce a 1000 year void of Sith and how does this effect the sequel trilogy.

1. To establish the jedi had stopped being able to perceive the Sith.
2. To emphasise that the Jedi were in there final death throws and “out of balance”.

They also showed us that the Sith, though thought dead were actually not.

So who were the jedi fighting in the absence of Sith - Other none Sith / Dark side Users.

But in the original movies the dark side users Darth Sidious and Darth Vader were only ever described as dark side Users, so why introduce a concept of a Sith order, if in the same breath they have to do away with it by saying any one the Jedi fought is just not part of the Sith order, why create such a bind that restricts 1000 years of recent history?

FIX
there is a possibility, remove the line "this Sith have been extinct for a millennium" said by the jedi council.

It is a minor plot point that the Jedi though the Sith extinct.
Removing this would not alter the Phantom menace, arguably the weaker of the three films in any significant way, nor would it change any of the overall Prequel trilogy.

We as the audience are not aware until told that the jedi think the Sith extinct and by the time we are told it is long after we have seen Darth maul and all naturally assume him to be a Sith / Dark side user any way.

Lucas has recently brought back Darth maul after he killed him off, so this minor tweek would mean any writer that wants to tell a tale of Sith / dark side users would be free to do it right up to the prequel time line. Instead of having to work around a 1000 year absence.

Conclusion
With no restriction on how the Sith developed over the years the new Sequal saga is free to introduce characters that can still remain steeped in that rich Sith tradition with out any conflicting story lines?

 

First let me just clarify my point.

Because Darth Vader and Darth Sidious in the O.T are the people associated with the Ancient tradition talked about.

And the prequel trilogy associates Vader and Sidious to the Sith.
Anakin to Palpatine -

This means the ancient Sith tradition from prequel backwards ceased to exist.
Jedi council -

and from the O.T onwards became the Sith.
Because if Palpatine and Vader are Sith in the prequels as an extension of the prequels SITH label they become Sith in the O.T.

But the newly crowned "Sith" being thought dead for a 1000 years is only to establish the shock at the presence of Darth Maul.
Qui-Gon-Ginn -

Jedi council -

Its a line designed to add weight to the new presence of one single character?

In the later movies they are looking for a dark Sith Lord, so just adapt the phantom menace to be

It then ties in to the rest of the trilogy nicely.

Then when in the phantom menace when Obi-Wan say to Anakin -

It makes sense. because the Sith have alway been around. they never went away.

 

Yeh I couldn't agree more.

Abrahamic Archetypes
ok. the Jedi and Sith stem from a similar abrahamic type way. well so to speak. The Sith stem form the Jedi.
The Jedi essentially were Abraham, until the Sith arose, then they both became the Abram of there diametrically opposed beliefs.
This is an important point because the Sith traditions talked about stem from and persevere some of the Jedi traditions still.
The construction of a light sabre for one is a direct Jedi tradition.

Once taught the Sith tradition, a Sith is a Sith, as Darth maul has recently shown, because the name Darth is irrelevant, its being inducted in to the tradition, and subscribing to that way of life.
Even the seemingly insignificant use of a lightsaber actually signifies you have been taught the tradition.
when people cry for the end of the Sith in the new sequel the forget with it goes all the history and tradition, even the knowledge of the construction of a lightsaber goes with it, no more lightsabre fights. GONE

The new Flavour
take for instance, if Maul taught a female none Sith all he knows and she left him and formed her own witch group, she would have been inducted in to the Sith tradition nether the less, and so would only be perpetuating the Sith tradition whether she knows it or not.

Only a new character developed free from the teachings of any Jedi or Sith with there own original belief system can be truly a new force group.
I personally am interested how they develop these. Maz looked like a step in that direction a none force user that through hearing about the story of the force had developed an understanding of it. essentially her own personal belief system around the force. (I'm just not personally a maz fan and it seems she may be force capable to)

This would have to be the basis for a independent force group to develop, though obviously with a force ability and no connection to either of the two Root traditions.

One last important point is the Sith and jedi have been the main conflict through out the galaxy for over a thousand generations.
Any group that develops will to some extent have been influenced by the existence of these to Root systems, thats why I say while the Jedi are to the Sith and all light side users the abrahamic archetype the Sith become there own Abraham to all other force capable dark side user groups wether developed independently of the Sith teachings or not.