New concept of the Force.

The dark side of the force was present in the Jedi Temple because they built over a destroyed Sith temple that was long forgotten. The past force users affected and strengthened the dark side energies in that location which has carried on through the decades.
Even Palpatine states the Jedi have no idea they sit on top of an ancient Sith site of worship. It's hard to say empirically how the force would behave if there weren't any previous meddlings

 

GREAT QUESTION?

 

It's definitely setting itself up that Snoke is the looming threat that Thrawn speaks of.... but it also seems a bit too clean IMO

But the way this threat is described it seems as though he shouldn't need the FO or Kylo Ren or anyone for that matter.
If he truly is a threat to all life, and the embodiment of the dark side of the force, then wouldn't it seem more appropriate to have him as some Galactus or Brainiac type character, Rather than just another force wielding Emporer with an apprentice who needs to finish his training...?

Now, Snoke, as seen in TFA, is definitely in a weakened potentially from a past battle, maybe even a run in with the Chiss or the remnants of the Empire.
so that could explain his need for the FO.

But the fact that the FO is essentially a tribute band to the empire throws me off.

 

But its ACTING. Its not a netural thing that just exists until someone taps into it and decides to use it for good or bad.

 

what is your evidence of this? Not denying what you're saying is true, the will of the force is often mentioned but so is the will of God in our own society, and we still have no evidence to support that one way or the other...

 

Its in the tarkin novel

 

Strange - I finished the Tarkin Audiobook last week and don't recall anything about the Acting force. Any idea when this is mentioned?

 

When they talk about the Jedi temple being built on the Sith temple and the dark side affecting and weakening hte Jedi - if it was just the netural element that wasn't good or bad until someone used it, there wouldn't.couldn't be darkside "energy" left over, it would just be the force. It wouldn't act on its own and affect the Jedi, it would just.......be until it was tapped into.

 

Explaining the force is equivalent of castrating it. I don't need to know every detail about Peter Parker's tech. to know that he swings, just like I don't need to know who constructed Vader's suit to know he's a bad dude. Spoon-feeding the audience can be as detrimental to sequel trilogy as poor writing was to PT.

 

Going back tp your own analogy @McDiarmid I wonder if there is such a thing as "the creation of the Dark Side." Is the dark side a cause or a result? You pointed to ripples or waves in the stream. Is the Dark Side an eddie or current of its own or is it the result of the manner in which the river is interacted with. The motives associated with the Darkside are selfish and insular. Those who "use the Darkside" poison the river disrupt its flow to accomplish their ends. The distort that which binds and use it to break. In our most ancient religions the language or words of creation had power and speaking them inversely had power, making vs unmaking, creating rather than destroying.

Yoda warned Luke, "That cave strong with the Darkside it is. In you must go." Perhaps such places are points where the Living Force is disrupted. It is no longer healthy.

 

Here is another definition of 'the forced'.

 

We all have different expectations from the stories we enjoy. I'm actually a very hard core fan. I've read most of the Legends and current books and comics. What I'm talking about isn't LESS or MORE details. I just think EXPLAINING the force in general would be a bad idea.

 

I would say the force itself is neutral and not Actively bending one way or another unless influenced by a force user. Physical objects, buildings,l artifacts, and other items can be imbued with Darkside or lightside energy which lasts long after the original force user has gone. Think of a Holocron or any other Sith or Jedi temple we have seen through the series (IE clone wars, rebels). Or all the artifacts that are found at the end of Aftermath Empires End. These are all physical objects that tie the dark/light side to a specific location rather than the force itself actively changing to be dark or light geographically.

There is talk throughout the SW canon of force shadows or remnants of force activity In the force that lingers after the event has happened. Palpatine mentions how the slaying of the younglings at the Jedi Temple serves to strengthen the Dark side in that location through the time of the Empire.

Basically, it's not the force itself that's actively leaning light or dark, but because the force Is passive in its neutrality it has no means of restoring a neutral state just as it has no means of being dark or light on its own.