Vader and Palpatine in episode 4. Episode 1 had Maul.
I was a child of the first three films. I never really thought about Darth as name or a title, exclusively. I suppose everyone referred to him as Darth or Vader or Darth Vader, but I didn't fully realize Darth was specifically a surname until Darth Maul. Thus, I was uncomfortable when Kylo Ren came along without Darth. I had to read about the Knights of Ren. So, is he even a Sith? Now, I'm getting more into the books and more details than what I learned from KOTOR, the game.
We lose ideology, I think, with all our forms and stages of Sith and Jedi and grey Jedi and so on. Knights doesn't fit Sith as seen before with the dark side representing power hungry evil.
I too am a child of the OT, and a student of the history of the Original Canon. Darth wasn't so much a surname as title. But I had always attributed it as Vader's first name until I was introduced to Darths Sidious and Maul in TPM. After that did I realize it was a Sith title. I had initially thought it was a contraction of "
Dark Lord of the Si
th". I've forgotten what the etymology of it is but it was derived from the Sith word Dar'ta (or something along those lines).
From what I've gathered of the NC, the KoR are not Sith by a long shot. And what little I've seen of the pack, Kylo may or may not be the only Force adept among them. If he's not, then I would suspect that the dark boy band is more akin to the Inqs, just a bunch of DS thugs. Considering how much of the Empire's resources that fell into the FO's hands, I'm surprised that all of Sidious' Sith artifacts didn't become the focus of the group, and therefore reestablish a Sith Order. But Disney has to be "edgy".
There is no mistake, only perfection in arguments ....
As OWK already pointed out, Vader didn't exist in Ep.
1. And perfect arguments are called "explanations".
But to those that weren't steeped in the EU, that was the first use of Darth on that level.
Just because someone addressed Vader as Darth (for the first time they ever met in a long time), therefore implies there was no Sith and no Force sensitive Emperor? The reasoning is not compelling. What's does that have to do "generation gap"?
A generation gap might explain a difference in thought process. If you've spent the bulk of your life knowing the prequels, your logic would be sound. I spent the first half of my life only knowing the OT. Darth only applied to Vader.
Let's run down my logic behind this assumption.
If I introduced myself as Mason Longcor, would you assume Mason is my title or my first name?
