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The issue with the concept of grey Jedi is that it was sort of handled a bunch of different ways in the EU and ended up getting perverted enough that it didn't mean anything. KotOR was one of the biggest offenders here, showing the Force as a spectrum between light and dark and all that. Game mechanic became lore for a lot of people.
1. There is no light side, like someone said above. There is the the Force, and there is the dark side. Star Wars is pretty straightforward in this way.
2. Grey Jedi were inherently on the side of the Force (or tried to be). What made them "grey" was not agreeing with the Order about everything. Qui-Gon is (or was at one point) the best example of a Grey Jedi in canon, and he was on the side of the Force. Qui-Gon did things or believed things that were risky or atypical, but that was mostly it.
3. And then you had Grey Jedi being used for any Force user that wasn't strictly Jedi or obviously Sith, and the term lost even more meaning.
Stuff like this is why the old EU was pushed to the side. Was a struggle to stay internally consistent on almost any going at one point.
Edit: Sorry for the tangent. This is just one of my least favorite things about the EU.
1. There is no light side, like someone said above. There is the the Force, and there is the dark side. Star Wars is pretty straightforward in this way.
2. Grey Jedi were inherently on the side of the Force (or tried to be). What made them "grey" was not agreeing with the Order about everything. Qui-Gon is (or was at one point) the best example of a Grey Jedi in canon, and he was on the side of the Force. Qui-Gon did things or believed things that were risky or atypical, but that was mostly it.
3. And then you had Grey Jedi being used for any Force user that wasn't strictly Jedi or obviously Sith, and the term lost even more meaning.
Stuff like this is why the old EU was pushed to the side. Was a struggle to stay internally consistent on almost any going at one point.
Edit: Sorry for the tangent. This is just one of my least favorite things about the EU.