The Sith have red because they synthesize them to make them superior in strength to the blades of the Jedi. I believe this was covered in Jedi vs Sith as well as in the Essential guide to Weapons. I personally think we've only seen Jedi weilding green and blue on film because ILM is too lazy to throw in orange, yellow, more purple, etc. Maybe in test shots other colors just didn't look right. There are cut away shots of lightsabers in the Visual Dictionaries. And I'm not so sure how much of the EU stuff in necessarily BS. I mean, somebody on a DVD, I think a production artist, when talking about how much Lucas tells them to help them create, said that Lucas was explaining to them during EpI how the Gunguns mine those blue energy spheres they launched at battle droids and how they use the energy to power Otah Gunga. I think a lot of it does come from him, and maybe just gets expanded on by whoever designs the final product.
I don't get why people are so against EU. Just cuz its not on film it sucks or what? I think until Lucas releases some sort of list about which stories he likes and which he doesn't, that its in continuity (assuming its not SW tales or the Ininities). Plus, I'm sure everyone has there own little continuity-what they like they like to think is canon, what they don't like isn't. So I guess it just comes down to choice. And Lucas does authorize these guide books so what's the point of having these liscensed reference books if we're not supposed to use them as reference?
No. Canon is NOT a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact. There is no such thing as 'one person's canon', there is only what is and isn't. It has been STATED that the EU is not canon- it is Lucasfilm's official policy. This isn't having anything against EU- it is simply acknowledging the way it is. I am sorry- until Lucasfilm changes its mind, this is just not up for debate- a debate we are certainly tired of. So this is the way it is, and only canonical sources- i.e. the films- can be taken as fact. So please do not state non-canon sources as factual, only as opinion.
If you want to dicuss EU continuity, there is an area for it. If you want to make EU- even just a part of it- canon, talk to Lucasfilm, not us. Until then, the situation remains as it is.
being too lazy to make orange, yellow, ...?
I don't think so!
orginally there weren' blue sabres, till they had to make luke fight at tatooine in ROTJ and the blue totally disappeared with the blue sky they had, so they had to make it green to get it all done right.
there are only a limited amount of colors they can do without it seeming totally wrong and "unrealistic", namely: blue, green, red and yellow, purple, cyaan
Yerssot-that was a joke, sarcasm. You expanded on what I was saying, how the blades might not look right in certain light. I said that it was more than likely a technical decision because look at the arena fight: orange, red, and yellow would have been very hard to see and most likely ended up blending occasionally. With that and the red only for Sith rule, you're only left with green and blue. So yeah, I totally agree, there's only so much they can realistically use.
Ush-I wasn't saying 'one person's canon' like they could use it as a debate point, I just meant that if someone wants to believe that a certain book or comic is what happened to a character, since they ARE all fictional anyway, than they're allowed to. We can accept any story from lucasbooks IF we want to. But I agree that it should not be allowed in debate unless it is directly about that particular story.
EU is spin off products that aint debateable even if it is about charachters.
We get the info we need from the films. They are the works of George Lucas, all the novels and stuff IS NOT the work of Geroge Lucas. George Lucas uses HIS WAY making the films which means the books and their stories aint of any interest at all besides for what ought to be discussed in the EU forum which was made for the purpose of discussing the spin off products of Star Wars. Her we talk FILM
Lightsaber Colours and Status
I just posted this at TFN and I'll post it here too 😛
Oops... posted without writing anything. Well, I was thinking about lightsaber colours and the theory behind them, just wondering. I noticed that often the more superior Jedi have green sabers and padawans have blue sabers. Ok, don't count Mace in this. Think... Luke gets a green saber in ep 6, Yoda, Qui Gon have green. On the blue side is Obi Wan though, which kinda throws things. Then again, he went from being the padawan straight to training Anakin, who was headstrong. Also, Lucas hadn't had green lightsabers before ep6 - all were blue (see the original ep6 trailer on the OT DVDs). Also, see Ki-Adi Mundi... but then again he's not a Jedi Master, hence he has a blue saber. Luminara Unduli and Bariss Offee are another example.
Think at he end of ep 2 when Anakin has the green saber and Obi Wan the blue. Symbolic, or chance? Yes, he does then lose the green saber (and promtly his arm). This ties in with the thread about Blue sabers never winning against Sith (although Yoda v Sidious will mess that around... green loses to red!)
So yeah, what do you think? Madness? Or is there something in this?
For the RotJ explanation, doesn't the part about the concave surface contradict the films, and therefore shouldn't the whole explanation be thrown out?
Back before Episode II came out, I had thought that green sabers represented an ambivalence in the force (Qui Gon and RoTJ Luke). Yoda's saber in Episode II pretty well killed that theory, though, so now I'm back to square one.
Also, doesn't the RotJ radio drama describe Luke making his saber in Obi-Wan's hut? And doesn't Obi-Wan have Qui Gon's saber after Qui Gon dies? Maybe Luke just grabs the spare crystal that's hanging around, which just so happens to be Qui-Gon's old one.
Originally posted by mtryder
Also, doesn't the RotJ radio drama describe Luke making his saber in Obi-Wan's hut? And doesn't Obi-Wan have Qui Gon's saber after Qui Gon dies? Maybe Luke just grabs the spare crystal that's hanging around, which just so happens to be Qui-Gon's old one.
I like that idea.
Has knowbody thought that the colour of the lightsabre has no other meaning then a simplemans way of telling everyone what side everyone is one. The reason for the change in mace windus lightsabre could be because he went to kill darth sid in ep lll without giving him a fair trial. maybe his lightsabre was purple to show a metaphore for his upcoming rage.