If that's the case then they are definitely going to have to differentiate them A LOT more than they have, otherwise it's just lame to have them be the same exact thing, only they had to call them something different because the emperor copyrighted the name and Snokes only real fear is lawsuits.
It's poking holes in a plot where no hole previously existed... Up till now good guy force users were called Jedi, bad guy force users were called Sith... If they now make Sith just the clubhouse name of specific bad guy force users, it weakens things like Luke showing up in Rotj dressed like a Sith (balance), not to mention...
How did anyone know they were Sith in the prequels?
No one ever asked Maul if he was Sith...He was a bad guy force user and everyone accepted that bad guy force user equals Sith.
Now I've said before and still say: if they want to just scrap prequels altogether that's just fine by me. For now, a couple of the movies have everyone assuming that being a bad guy force user and being Sith are the same thing and ending up being completely right about it.
It's poking holes in a plot where no hole previously existed... Up till now good guy force users were called Jedi, bad guy force users were called Sith... If they now make Sith just the clubhouse name of specific bad guy force users, it weakens things like Luke showing up in Rotj dressed like a Sith (balance), not to mention...
How did anyone know they were Sith in the prequels?
No one ever asked Maul if he was Sith...He was a bad guy force user and everyone accepted that bad guy force user equals Sith.
Now I've said before and still say: if they want to just scrap prequels altogether that's just fine by me. For now, a couple of the movies have everyone assuming that being a bad guy force user and being Sith are the same thing and ending up being completely right about it.