why dint the emperor give darth vader?

Originally posted by nate100

Although i read it on supershadow

All creditability lost.

Talk about vague thread titles....couldnt they have added 'a lightsaber' to the end of it? Would have saved me the trouble of actually reading the thread....

Originally posted by Mišt
All creditability lost.

Talk about vague thread titles....couldnt they have added 'a lightsaber' to the end of it? Would have saved me the trouble of actually reading the thread....

agreed..

plus blue looks better against lava.. heh

Yeah i know that point is basically bollocks. From what i can tell the dude is full of shit.

HOWEVER

Why would MR get the licence to make the saber from the film?

It is visibly different from all other vader sabers in the OT so it had to of been planned to put this particular saber in ROTS in the first place.

Bottom line, a saber was made for Vader but for what ever reason it was not included in the film.

well vader shoulda coulda woulda ...lol....whipped out the red one and saber slapped obiebiotch when he lost his other 3 limbs and blue saber....just for good measure ya know...LOL...time to go back to queeqs! 🍺

Originally posted by craft-a-saber
dont you think your a little off-topic and should be discussing that in the original trilogy forum

just a thought

I've seen footage of Anakin fighting with a red blade...and it wasn't really a problem that you could hardly see it...it would probably be more difficult to make if it was a red blade...maybe, but you see the blade good.

Anyway I told the other reason why they didn't use a red blade...cause it might look cool, Anakin fighting with a red blade...It just looks wrong.

Originally posted by darthvader_fan
I CAUGHT HIM FIRST

GIVE ME THE CREDIT

GOTCHA NOW STINGER78 YOU LITTLE WEASLE

How'd You know that was Stinger78

Originally posted by nate100
The weird thing thou is that i bought Vaders Lightsaber from episode three from master replicas when it came out. Its basically his pre a new hope saber.

http://masterreplicas.com/customer/starwars/starwars_product_detail.php?pid=8434

So how come it was "made" in production but never used????

Although i read it on supershadow there was a rough script that said something along the lines of:

Obi wan knocked Anakins saber away and thought that he was defensless so tried to talk some sense into him and then anaking pulled a new saber (the episode 3 vader version) from the back of his belt or cloak and the fight continued with a red on blue saber fight.

Personally i think that would have been a good idea. Sure they would have had trouble explainning how he had time to build a new one but it still would have looked cool.

Supershadow aside, I think he was meant to have a red sabre at first.

All of the publicity stills for episode III that had vader showed his red sabre.

And those weren't old photos, they were new ones, shot with Hayden doing poses in the costume.

So that is the replica that you bought, methinks.

As to why it was changed,.. who knows?

(But several good reasons have already been given.) 😉

I posted that it just looks wrong...Anakin with a red saber.
Many complained that Anakin turns to the Dark Side too quickly!
Maybe that's true...well Anakin with a red lightsaber would just have made it worse.

Originally posted by Cascador
I posted that it just looks wrong...Anakin with a red saber.
Many complained that Anakin turns to the Dark Side too quickly!
Maybe that's true...well Anakin with a red lightsaber would just have made it worse.

yeah people do complain that he turns to the dark side to quickly but if you read in the book it takes a little longer

plus alot of people believe that anakin should have been trained in the dark side from the start

and that the prophecy was for the dark side

but thats a common argument isn't it

Lucas had no choice! he HAD to make the OB1 and anakin fight blue on blue because in ANH, OB1 gives luke a blue light sabre that 'belonged 2 his father!'. He TOOK anakins lightsabre after he won. If it was red then, Lucas would have had had to remake the original 2 films to make lukes lightsabre red. Thats the answer. close the topic now.

Originally posted by locuasohappy
in ROTS when anakin was ignited into a sith why didnt sdous give anakin a red light saber showing his alliegance to the dark side of the force? and dont you think it would have looked better in the mustafar battle with kenobi if anakin was red and kenobi was blue?

because you can only a red crystal saber when you become a full jedi master. anakin was turning to the dark side in episode III.

I think they were going to do that originally, but the idea was scraped when it was hard to tell a red lightsaber against Mustafar's background.

no, they had to make it blue goddamit! because in the original trilogy, lukes saber (from his father) was blue. and THAT was the saber that OB1 took from anakin after he had kicked anakins ass.

willman, there was the idea, that he pulled out a second saber all of a sudden, a second saber that was red...so that wouldn't be in conflict with the idea that Obi-Wan takes anakin's blue one.
But they didn't use that idea.

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Well....

Blue vs Blue symbolizes hero vs hero rather than hero vs villain.

Some of the Mustafar art work "pre-invisioning," Anakin had a red lightsaber. But that's all it means.

Originally posted by Arker
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Well....

Blue vs Blue symbolizes hero vs hero rather than hero vs villain.

I almost said the same in a previous post...I said that it shows more friend vs. friend than Sith vs. Jedi.

Originally posted by locuasohappy
in ROTS when anakin was ignited into a sith why didnt sdous give anakin a red light saber showing his alliegance to the dark side of the force? and dont you think it would have looked better in the mustafar battle with kenobi if anakin was red and kenobi was blue?

Why don't u transform into someone who doesn't ask stupid, questions....

Anyways blue and blue *friend vs friend* fits the traitor genre and it's something new.

Originally posted by willman
Lucas had no choice! he HAD to make the OB1 and anakin fight blue on blue because in ANH, OB1 gives luke a blue light sabre that 'belonged 2 his father!'. He TOOK anakins lightsabre after he won. If it was red then, Lucas would have had had to remake the original 2 films to make lukes lightsabre red. Thats the answer. close the topic now.

and how it appears when Obi-Wan gave it to Luke 20 years later in ANH:

Here's Obi-Wan's saber in RotS:

and here's how it appeared in ANH:

Now, are they identical, or, are they different??
For reasons yet unexplained, it's pretty clear that Obi-Wan tinkered with both sabers and changed some of the parts during his exile. Even if Anakin had put a Sith crystal in his saber during RotS, (which he never did) Obi-Wan had 20 years to put a new one in to give it it's original blue blade when he replaced the other components. The saber he gives to Luke, is not 100% identical to when he picked it up on Mustafar, so your argument/hissyfit proves absolutely nothing. It still makes more sense that the reason for Anakin's blade appearing blue on Mustafar is because a) Red would have been harder to distinguish than blue, thus meaning b) There was no point having him re-work the saber in the film to give it a red blade.