RoccondilRinon said:
Venal, you are not a vast majority. If we're accustomed to red = bad guy, blue/green = good guy — which even if we've only seen TPM and AOTC up to this point we would be — Dooku wielding a red sabre is the giveaway that he's a villain. If you give him a different colour — any different colour — it's less likely to pigeonhole him as a simple villain in the viewer's mind.
Notwithstanding my defence of a yellow/gold sabre for him, I don't mind him getting a green one, provided the only other characters with one are Luke in ROTJ, Qui-Gon and possibly Windu if we're painting him as the unduly suspicious character that was thrown about a while ago in this thread, and all the other Jedi get blue.
What a joke. You're saying your average Joe who sees these movies gives a fuck about a yellow/purple/green/orange light sabre? Yes, blue is good and red is bad, I'm sure most people pick up that much. But are you really suggesting that those same casual viewers read ANYTHING into other colours of light sabres? If you think that you're deluding yourself. That was the vast majority I was referring to.
And this logic you're going on about Dooku being a character of unknown affiliation... exactly how long do you think viewers were wondering which side he was on? If the script was trying to pull off some mystery about him then it fails completely. There's ambiguous dialogue with Obi-Wan after he sees Dooku colluding with the Seperatists which achieves nothing whatsoever because it's so badly written, then a scene or two later he's watching two Jedi and a Senator about to be slaughtered. Oh, and then he flees, fights three Jedi and escapes to be with his Sith master. At what fucking point are we supposed to be wondering whose side Dooku was on?
Give me a fucking break.