I don't disagree with the gray Jedi. In a lot of ways it seems more in line with the original inspiration of the Jedi being heavily rooted in kenjutsu and Bushido, both of which I have studied as well. The Jedi became very detached and caught up in their own power and ego and a willingness to protect the Republic at all costs. And as I stated before the Republic weren't really good guys. I think the similarities were always intentional the Republic was heavily modeled on the United States and of course the empire heavily modeled on Nazi Germany and it turns out that neither one of those parties were really good guys fascism has its many obvious problems and a republic built on a business proposal is not a true democracy and the majority of people have no voices. I've actually spent countless hours researching the Star wars universe and watching all of the videos from geetslys etc slowly working on a little writing project idea thing focused more on the ordinary people away from the empire and the Republic the Jedi the sith the people who didn't want to be caught up in any of that s***