Isn't the point of The Dark Side of The Force that it's "easy" power?

Easy as in it's not as hard to get a hold of plenty of it, yet it corrupts the hell out of you.

Then why is Kylo Ren having such a hard time with it?

In the entire series we've seen characters slip to the Dark Side by accident...Luke at the end of Return of The Jedi...Leia during the same film apparently tapped into the Dark Side to kill Jabba...and lets not forget the single most famous force user to fall to the Dark Side...Anakin Skywalker.

Yet...even though Ren IS a Skywalker...or at least has Skywalker blood...AND the fact that he's trying his absolute best to be as evil as he can, he doesn't seem to have made much progress.

I would go on to make a point about Rey having such an easy time with The Light Side, even though Jedi require more training and discipline to master their talents...but I feel like that point has been brought up and argued enough, with a fairly reasonable conclusion.

Still...there are plenty of "other" Jedi who've fallen to The Dark side as well...during the age of The Old Republic, Jedi defected to The Sith in DROVES...they weren't brainwashed or anything...then again, this simple fact could say a lot of things about the way the Jedi taught their students back then.

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RoboChloe · 26-30, F

Kylo Ren's conflict makes sense to me. He's not inherently a bad person, but he's been a victim of circumstances which led him down a dark path.

Rey's not totally on the light side though. Pure light side means no emotion. George Lucas really shot himself in the foot when he wrote that, given that our protagonists showing little emotion doesn't make for a fantastic story, so the only way to make it work is to undermine the very nature of the Jedi, but whatever. Clearly the writers of the new movies understand this, because they're portraying Rey as more of a Grey-ish force user than a pure Light side user, and kind of moving away from the Jedi with Luke's death, which was nicely exemplified by Yoda's attitude towards the Jedi texts.

They're doing the same thing with the dark side and the Sith though. Both our main force using characters aren't pure light or dark, and aren't Jedi or Sith, but they each sway far enough in opposite directions to be at odds. It makes for a much more complex and interesting story to me. In the past (in canon movies) there were good guys, bad guys, and one guy who hated sand, and that was the entire spectrum of light and dark. What we have now is better.