imperialscum said:
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.
Please read more carefully. I was referring to the Sith of the Sith Empire -- AKA the Sith who show up in The Golden Age of the Sith and Fall of the Sith Empire -- not the Sith in general.
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.
You're ignoring a third option -- running with what TOTJ set up.
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.
I don't just hate the black tattoos. I also hate the corpse-white skin, the glowing yellow/orange/red eyes, and the general Goth-like attire.
Btw I don't know the exact definitions of your terms "KISS reject" and "generic" but I would very much like to learn them.
A "KISS reject" is any character who looks like this
"Generic" refers to any Sith who fits this or any similar mold.
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.
What was the "original Sith concept", BTW? The term doesn't even show up in the OT. Are you referring to the earlier rough drafts? Well, seeing as the Sith change shape and form between them, they're useless as a guide to the universe of the films themselves.
Face facts -- prior to TOTJ, "Sith" was an undefined, nebulous concept; Tom Veitch was the one to give the Sith a distinct culture and history.
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.
Perhaps Veitch and co. expected the readers to use a little imagination and deductive reasoning to fill in the gaps -- something you apparently are incapable of.
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).
Sure, go ahead. Just don't attempt to link these Sith to the Sith that preceeded them.