Which color lightsaber would you wield?

[Totenkindly]

I'd hoped for green because Yoda. Blue is prettier though.

If blue were Yoda, Cookie Monster he'd be.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Anyway, all this yellow and orange is some apocryphal EU bullshit. The only reason purple is canon is because Sam Jackson asked as a personal request of George Lucas.

 

[Totenkindly]

Ehhh.... KOTOR et al made various colors work just fine without referencing EU.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Ehhh.... KOTOR et al made various colors work just fine without referencing EU.

I thought KOTOR fell into EU domain, like Force Unleashed (which allowed the player to customize their hilts and collect various color crystals)

 

[Totenkindly]

I thought KOTOR fell into EU domain, like Force Unleashed (which allowed the player to customize their hilts and collect various color crystals)

I never read any EU stuff and the mythos seemed self-contained to me even if there could possibly be intersection points.

I mean, seriously -- are additional colors of lightsabers really such an innovative idea in a culture that values individualization that it can't be derived by multiple entities at once?

(I can't argue that Sam L. Jackson ain't a special snowflake, though. he is.)

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I never read any EU stuff and the mythos seemed self-contained to me even if there could possibly be intersection points.

I mean, seriously -- is colored lightsabers really such an innovative idea in a cultural that values individualization that it can't be conjured up by multiple entities at once?

Dunno.

I'm honestly surprised there haven't been more colors featured in the films (or series) by now. I wonder if Abrams will incorporate more colors; would be cool but also create further continuity problems when a million lifeless fanboys ask why no multi-colored sabers were around in prequel times.

I think the decision to only feature green, blue and red was largely a Lucas issued edict, and if I remember correctly, the only reason green was introduced was because the blue saber was less visible against blue skies during scenes in ROTJ.

 

[Totenkindly]

All in all, Lucas' decisions usually seemed pretty contrived to me. I guess he wanted to make some kind of simplistic allegorical comment on "Jedis are calm = blue, but Sith are angry = red," but from a science POV, if lightsabers would be feasible on any level with colors like blue or red, I'm not really sure what's stopping other colors from existing.

I guess I'd respect his judgment more if he had done better things with the property after A New Hope came out; he didn't really handle directing or screenwriting for Empire Strikes Back (which is considered overall the "best" movie from a critical POV), and everything was downhill from there.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

All in all, Lucas' decisions usually seemed pretty contrived to me. I guess he wanted to make some kind of simplistic allegorical comment on "Jedis are calm = blue, but Sith are angry = red," but from a science POV, if lightsabers would be feasible on any level with colors like blue or red, I'm not really sure what's stopping other colors from existing.

I guess I'd respect his judgment more if he had done better things with the property after A New Hope came out; he didn't really handle directing or screenwriting for Empire Strikes Back (which is considered overall the "best" movie from a critical POV), and everything was downhill from there.

I think Irvin Kershner and Lawrence Kasdan really got Star Wars. I don't know what either of their MBTI types were, though.

 

[Olm the Water King]

 

[Bush]

Yellow

Weird, though.

I don't know what any of those Star Wars ships are. Except the Death Star. I randomly chose one of the four that looked like an X; because screw it, they were all the same anyway.

I don't remember anything about the movies, so I had to think carefully about which was my favorite. Episode 6 (I forget which one that is) had a bunch of awful dancing at the end or something, and that feels like it wouldn't be a good end to the series. Episode 1 was the worst of the new trilogy, Episode 3 was the best of it but I only remember the ending. Episode 2 was the most forgettable. I think that was the one where 3/4 of the movie was just the Empire talking politics. I don't need that shit in my life. Pretty sure Episode 5 was the one that had Han encased in carbonite at the end, and probably also Jabba the Hutt. So that one's kind of cool. I think Episode 4 was the one where Luke made out with his twin sister, which is pretty hilarious. All in all, Episode 5 came out on top, with 4 as a very close second.

Then I had to figure out which logo was the one for Episode 5. That was a lot of work. I probably clicked the wrong one.

 

[pizzathegreat]

Sounds about right. I was hoping for green though.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

@Nixie, I have a strict "No Sith Lords" policy. I'm very sorry. It's based on personal experience. I only date Jedi.

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

red.

 

[Boogie man]

 

[Neshama]

 

[Fuzz]

 

[Proctor]

Red.

To be honest, if I had force powers I probably would use them for evil. I'd feel bad about it though.

 

[Chrysanthe]

I wish I could be purple ;-; but I'll probably end up getting green... oh well.

Oh yay! This just increased the happiness output of my day.

 

[ilikeitlikethat]

 

[purplesocks]