On the story:
This was entertaining! A dark humor parody really hits the spot now and again. Fantasy often has a tendency to become really serious and heavy with themes, etc. This was refreshing.
And if you think about it, in a less extreme way, how many of us daily refuse to embrace our "destiny", or at least don't live up to our potential, because it is too tiring, difficult, uncomfortable, imtimidating, etc.? I think of the quote from Maryanne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most."
Of course, this story certainly wasn't trying to inspire us, but as I said, it did entertain.
On Dave's Anikin comments:
I was never really sold on the fact that Anikin was the chosen one or that he brought any balance to the Force. Is the balance that he destroyed the Emperor and redeemed himself, thus eliminating the Sith? Is there only balance because Luke is the only living Jedi at that point? Is so, then the only balance Anikin (Vader) restored resulted from the unbalance he created by killing all of the other Jedi in the first place. The mathmatics are a little complicated to begin with because the balance seems to be when its two against hundreds. Apparently the Dark Side is so much stronger that more than two Sith would destroy the galaxy, but then I suppose the Force is unbalanced at the beginning of Episode I because it needs restoring. I don't get it. I would think if there were no Sith, there would be no balance. But maybe when Luke builds the Jedi up to the rank of hundreds again, the Sith can return. Granted, my intake of the Extended Universe of novels and comics is limited so this may have all been explained. Well, hopefully I haven't distracted from the story too much.