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My petty nit-picky pet peeve is people calling Snoke and Kylo Ren Sith.  I mean, it's not a huge deal to me, especially since many people do this just as a convenient way to refer to them for villain montages and whatnot.  And I know it's not something that would necessarily be easy to pick up on, especially if someone's only seen the movies, even if it's it's hinted at even within the movies.  But it does occasionally bug me, especially when people do this when they themselves are nitpicking canon or fandom in some other respect.

The biggest visual hint in the movies is their eyes.  The Sith have yellow or yellow-red eyes.  But neither Snoke nor Kylo do.  The differences go beyond that, though.  Snoke and Kylo discuss the Light side in terms of it being something that tempts them, in terms of it being something to resist, whereas the Sith simply don't seem to view the Light Side as having such an appeal.  Quite the contrary, they seem to view such an appeal as being an integral part of the Dark Side.  Also, while we don't yet know much about the Knights of Ren, they seem to be somewhat differently viewed than Force-wielding servants of the Sith like the Inquisitors.

I dunno, I just wish there was more discussion of the differences between these two Dark Side groups in fandom rather than just lumping the sequels darksiders in with the Sith.

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