...I always understood the "bring balance to the Force" as "the Force was tilted too far towards the Light, with the Jedi so dominant and the Sith by their nature so few, so he restored balance by wiping out most of the Jedi".
IOW, nobody ever said bringing balance had to be a good thing.
I like what you describe as the canonical explanation, but I don't recall anything to indicate it as being canonical (though there's a lot of potentially-arguably-canon material I'm not familiar with), and at a glance it doesn't seem to fit as well with what actually happened as my own understanding did.
IOW, nobody ever said bringing balance had to be a good thing.
I like what you describe as the canonical explanation, but I don't recall anything to indicate it as being canonical (though there's a lot of potentially-arguably-canon material I'm not familiar with), and at a glance it doesn't seem to fit as well with what actually happened as my own understanding did.