It is rare to be able to achieve victory against deeply messy and entrenched problems cleanly.

Luthen was not presented as some supergenius. He was a tireless operator. There is a saying: when you are a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. He saw nails everywhere.

Maybe to us, we see nuances more effectively. Mon Mothma did too. But if only geniuses existed, would we have the world we live in?

Those of us more high functioning might prefer to simply divide the necessary work equitably, go about our day, and meet up for drinks later tonight and strategize about tomorrow. Many others are incapable of seeing the world like that, or in the fictional Star Wars universe, their galaxy.

The writers did well showing what happens when a full range of mental abilities and mindsets under extreme duress struggle for freedom.

It's messy and terrible.

It means that they Emperor had set himself up as a self-perpetuating and ever-expanding black hole of dark-side energy growth and corruption and that he brought an end to it.

Had he not done so, the Force would have darkened to serve only Palpatine's insatiable lust for limitless power.

On the screen in the theater where I watched it, I wondered if I was mistaken that he died. He looked pretty good, but I'm not extreme in my concerns. I want to be engrossed by the whole experience. Give me great story, acting, visuals, sound, and a reasonable attention to detail—but it's a movie so I don't submit it to CERN for particle experimentation.

They do, however, need to keep our imaginations firmly in the movie universe. The Carrie Fisher scene at the end made me feel like I was watching through some alternate dimension. It was unnatural in a way I couldn't define.

That's my whole hope, that she takes the one line from The Force Awakens and runs with it, when he asks her what she sees between it all when she is viewing the island through the Force, just before she realizes she doesn't see him in the Force, and she says...

"THE BALANCE."

I want that fanaticism to be over. Don't unbalance the one end of the spectrum and the other won't have to rise to meet it, to semi-quote Snoke.

It would be great to see onscreen and then see people emulate balanced thinking in real life.