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Post #1268694

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Zachary VIII
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Most Baffling Complaint of a Star Wars Movie
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Date created
9-Feb-2019, 4:35 PM

fmalover said:

For me the most baffling complaint about Star Wars has been one brought up by Jeremy Jahns about Mace Windu’s lightsaber. He was bothered about Mace’s lightsaber being purple, and that lightsaber blades should only be blue or green for the good guys and red for the bad guys. I see nothing wrong with lightsaber blades being whatever colour people want them to be. Hell, I myself would like to see an orange-bladed lightsaber introduced in the Disney canon.

The purple lightsaber makes perfect sense. Mace has a super unorthodox fighting style, so he has an unorthodox lightsaber. In my ideal canon, purple would be a rare neutral color that both Jedi and non-Sith Dark Side users would wield. IIRC Legends sort of had that with Mara Jade using a purple blade even when working for the Emperor, unless I’m completely misremembering and she only got that lightsaber when she became a Jedi.