DuracellEnergizer said:
imperialscum said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
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.
No I am not ignoring it. It is basically the second option without any evolution/development, which is hands down stupid and unacceptable. Thousand years ago in Europe people wore armour and fought with swords... in your version, soldiers in WW2 should wore armour and fought with swords as well.
I fail to see how this has anything to do with Sith aesthetics/characterization.
Well just extend my example... compare today's aesthetics (clothes, buildings, art, cities, transportations, etc) and way of living to medieval aesthetics and way of living.
DuracellEnergizer said:
That's a single character, who was never identified as a Sith prior to the release of TPM, whose body was ravaged from a lifetime spent in uncommonly extreme devotion to the dark side.
Technically he was never explicitly identified as a Sith prior to ROTS. In ROTJ he is only referred to as the emperor of the empire. Only in ROTS it was explicitly revealed that Palpatine and Sidious are one and the same person and then connected them with ROTJ as he proclaimed himself an emperor.
As for his pale skin being an effect of Dark Side... that is how I see it too. However that is only our assumption since it is never explained. It is the same as assuming emperor in OT was a Sith. Yet you claim the first to be an indisputable fact and the second as something completely false. And this is just one of many cases where you do that. That kind of attitude is quite arrogant and childish if I may say so.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Nothing about what little was revealed about the Sith prior to TOTJ precludes the possibility that the Sith started out as a species/culture before evolving into a religion.
Nothing prior to PT precludes the possibility that Vader was actually a snivelling whiny unlikeable jerk before he turned into one the most awesome characters ever. Do you finally get my point? Just because the concepts are not fully explored it doesn't mean one can crap over them.
(Btw personally I like Sith starting out as a red-skinned species... I am just being objective here)
DuracellEnergizer said:
Why should I? Ever since TPM was released, the Sith have become shallow, one-dimensional, interchangeable clowns who are evil for the sake of being evil, and I for one am sick and tired of see them overrun each and every era and aspect of the EU.
A nice generalisation over much of the stuff you aren't even aware of.