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Crisis of the Infinite Darths

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We all have something to loathe about the PT, whether it be Jar Jar or Hayden, the writing or the CGI. I hate all these myself - alot - but there's one thing in particular that really gets under my skin and irks me.

Darth.

Yeah, that little name that Lucas decided to turn into a ****ing title. A title he had to give to all his craptastic Sith characters. We couldn't have unique names. No, we had to have a Darth (In)Sideous(ly Stupid), Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus, Darth Sipid, Darth Tarded, Darth Tom, Darth Dick, and Darth Harry.

It's all become a stupid, stupid joke.

(And don't get me started on the EU. Those ass-licking sycophants adopted Lucas' retarded naming system, and now you can't read a damn thing without finding a Darth somewhere. It's just one of many, many reasons why I can't stand most of the EU anymore).

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Yeah, that's one thing that bothers me a lot. I guess Lucas thought "Huh, 'Lord Maul' sounds kind of stupid," and so made Darth into the new 'lord'. Which is stupid.

You can tell this wasn't Lucas' intention from the start because Obi-Wan calls Vader 'Darth' in Star Wars. If Darth was supposed to be a title from the beginning, why didn't Obi-Wan also refer to Vader as 'Lord'? It would make about as much sense.

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I like this DuracellEnergizer guy.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Zombie has a chapter on this in his book, I believe.

Are we sure DuracellEnergizer isn't actually a bunny?

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I don't care what ethnic group he is part of, I think he is cool.

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Wait? When you said "bunny" you were refering to our bunny/garden discussion in the politics thread a few months ago, right?

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Surprisingly, the word "Darth" is only spoken 7 times combined in the PT (not counting Vader)...

TPM - Maul x2

AOTC - Sidious x2

ROTS - Plagueis x2, Sidious

Also note that Tyranus is never referred to as a Darth, but only as a Lord.

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Judge said:


You can tell this wasn't Lucas' intention from the start because Obi-Wan calls Vader 'Darth' in Star Wars. If Darth was supposed to be a title from the beginning, why didn't Obi-Wan also refer to Vader as 'Lord'? It would make about as much sense.

I believe this has been retconned as Obi-wan mocking Vader.

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TV's Frink said:


Not to mention all the Darths on this site.


Or Diddy's. ;)

And to stay on target (Stay on target! </red li'dr>) I too found the Darth thing to be stupid.

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Sluggo said:

Are we sure DuracellEnergizer isn't actually a bunny?

 Bunny, no. I'm what you would call your basic Lepus carnivorous. =P

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Cool.  I'm a carbavore, myself.

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When I watched TPM I kinda dug the "Darth." I though it was Maul's first name, and inspiration for Anakin's eventual alias.

Then I heard "Darth Sidious" (which isn't in that movie) and decided I hated it.

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You know what would have been cool?

Thrad Maul.

Also, am I wrong (a strong possibility, given that I don't bother with EU), but does Crisis of the Infinite Darths sound like an EU novel?

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TV's Frink said:

Also, am I wrong (a strong possibility, given that I don't bother with EU), but does Crisis of the Infinite Darths sound like an EU novel?

 The title was inspired by Crisis on Infinite Earths, which was a comic book mini-series made back in the 80s.

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DC ran a megacrossover in 1985 called "Crisis on Infinitie Earths"  Any other reference to an Infinite Crisis of some kind is a play on that.

 

(Edit: Dang.  Beaten to the punch.)

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!