The story of Star Wars’ dark side has long been defined by temptation—a temptation to power, a temptation to save people no matter the cost, a temptation for forces to influence, and corrupt, even the most careful practitioner.
Twenty years ago today, the sight of a diminutive cartoon Yoda—shrouded in a hooded cloak, his green lightsaber ignited and held high—riding atop a goatlike mount transformed Star Wars as we knew it. A year before at the climax of Attack of the Clones, he’d told us that begun, the Clone Wars had: now they truly had,…