Red itself being “bad” is just a terrible idea though.
Exactly.
Ideally, lightsaber colours would be
A. chosen to represent the character’s persona
B. chosen to mesh with the character’s overall aesthetic
But nope. Red = bad & everything else = good for stupid EU reasons.
Lightsabers are deadly weapons used for maiming and killing people (and sometimes slicing up Tauntauns). The idea that Jedi are concerned with how their color matches their personality makes me giggle.
Wouldn’t the new canon make more sense then? At least there is a ‘spiritual’ reasoning behind the colours, whereas in the old EU it was literally a cosmetic choice based on personality traits.