DuracellEnergizer said:
I don't hate human Sith. I hate it when a writer decides to use the Sith Empire in their story without sticking to how the Sith of the Sith Empire were originally depicted.
Please stop referring TOTJ Sith as "original Sith". Like I said, Sith were originally depicted in OT and are very different from what TOTJ turned them into much later.
There are two ways to deal with TOTJ. First, ignore it for the most part like KOTOR did. Second, consider it and make some evolution from it, like SWTOR did. Now don't get me wrong, I like TOTJ but I just don't like it when you consider it liks some "holy cow" of the EU.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Unmasked Vader looks like a sad, damaged old man, not a KISS reject, as he doesn't have a bunch of stupid black tattoos criss-crossing his face.
So you are bothered by the black tattoos. Very few human Sith In SWTOR have any kind of tattoos (and if they do they have red tattoos). Probably you just saw some Zabrak Sith and made the wrong generalisation. Zabrak tattoos don't have anything to do with Sith anyway. They are part of their culture.
Btw I don't know the exact definitions of your terms "KISS reject" and "generic" but I would very much like to learn them.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Because TOTJ clearly established a difference between the Sith of the Sith Empire and the later Sith like Vader and never tried to confuse the two. TOR -- like almost all current stories about the Sith -- justs sticks generic PT-inspired Sith into any nook and cranny it can find, context or original intent of whatever works it may be going off of be damned.
I really don't care how TOTJ justifies the meddling with the original Sith concept (i.e. OT). However painful this might be to you, PT Sith are by a lightyear closer to the original OT Sith. I wonder why did TOTJ even had to call them Sith. Why not just name them something of its own since it would work just as well. Calling them Sith was bound to cause friction and trouble.
DuracellEnergizer said:
TOTJ made no mess. If anything, it left some historical blanks to fill -- blanks that probably would have been filled if the bullshit prequels hadn't come out and taken over the comics.
So if you follow your own principles, you wouldn't mind if a similar EU source made yet another version of Sith (just like TOTJ did) about 2,500 years before OT and 2,500 years after TOTJ. After all, if we gave TOTJ the right to do that why not to someone else, right? And since we don't want them to be "generic", they would be yet another aliens, this time green skinned four legged creatures wielding blasters (we wish to avoid red lightsabres, actually lightsabres altogether). It would leave more than enough "historical blanks" to fill. And then we will blame decent sources like KOTOR and SWTOR for having to deal with these "historical blanks" (read: mess).