Totenkindly
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I'd hoped for green because Yoda. Blue is prettier though.
If blue were Yoda, Cookie Monster he'd be.
I'd hoped for green because Yoda. Blue is prettier though.
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)
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?
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.