Because lightning coming out of your fingertips is iconic, and it is dark, and any attempted rationalization of it to make a variant of it for light side users is just...weak.
Like, I believe the first time I came across it, Jacen using it on the Vong during the Ebaq 9 battle (did anyone else lol at Ackbar setting a trap?) and I just...died a little bit.
See, I don't really have a problem with light siders being able to utilize some emotions/feelings/powers that might not be 'light side approved' per se (Mace did it, Plo did it, Luke did it, etc.) I do, however, completely disagree with the number of characters who have whimsically come back to the light after fully embracing the dark side. As was said earlier, that defeats the whole concept behind "the dark side".
At least Vader had known a life before the Dark Side, he knew what he was missing. Took a direct confrontation with his son to spark a year's worth of conflict in him. And then another confrontation. And then witness to his son's torture and possible death.
All it took for a Marek was a buxom blonde with high cheek bones.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I'd go lightside for a buxom blonde with high cheek bones.Minus the bitchy british accent.
Hey, one of the primary reasons little Ani fell was to save his brunette chica with the nice abdominal section.
Nah, the british accent is cute, as long as their teeth aren't effed up.
Originally posted by truejedi
love the british accent. I have known a few british people, and they have all had messed up teeth. Is that a genetic trait/stereotype i haven't heard about before?
I believe it is because of the poor dental insurance coverage in the U.K.? If folks didn't go to the dentist regularly in the U.S. or got braces, they would have messed up teeth as well.
Originally posted by Enyalus
And what the hell was up with that Sith's saber skills? Hopping around everywhere, taking big looping swings that're easily ducked and dodged. Dude kinda sucked. We might have a Dark Side candidate for Johun Othone.
Johun Othone did not suck. He was cool.
True, his fighting skills were somewhat lacking, but that's why I like him. Because he's an everyman Jedi. It's refreshing to have a protagonist who isn't "one of the greatest duellists in the Order."
Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
TFU became stupid as soon as there was the idea that someone who has spent the majority of his life as a sith, can just turn his back on the dark side.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
All it took for a Marek was a buxom blonde with high cheek bones.
That was what made TFU (and Galen himself) awesome!
He became good because he fell in love. Love saves us from evil.
Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
TFU became stupid as soon as there was the idea that someone who has spent the majority of his life as a sith, can just turn his back on the dark side.
I don't know what game you played but Galen's turn was a deeply personal and slow thing that happened over the course of a year (IIRC) and with quite a few factors pushing him towards it. There were a few things wrong with the game but his redemption wasn't one of them.
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Too fast. I hate when that happens. It's such a weak ploy. Vader's was meaningful, but Marek's was... not.
I also don't think he was ever nearly as dark as many of his peers. Vader was certainly a brutal, twisted mentor, but I doubt he'd taken the time to psychologically torture or deeply indoctrinate Marek the way Palpatine did his students. Was the boy traumatized? Sure. But I think it takes a guiding hand to turn trauma into evil, and Vader never bothered with that.
Now I don't like that the character exists, but his redemption isn't very hard to believe.