Sevb32 said:
You guys are really anal about things. So far there have been blue & green for the Jedi (Mace Windu the only seen exception with the purple) and Sith or darksiders have red. I've never seen an orange or yellow lightsaber in the films.
I've seen orange, yellow, and many different colours & shades for lightsabers in the EU. You'll pardon me if I became taken with them and feel the films should have eventually gone on to adopt them.
I would think most people would hate all the sabers just being plain white.
That's like saying film-going audiences prior to the '30s would have hated silent films. You can't hate something if you've never known any alternatives.
I think the vast majority of the SW fanbase is with me on this and casual fans in general.
So, we of the minority should just throw out our personal thoughts, feelings, and preferences and conform to the crowd, right?
What makes it cliched to have differing colors of lightsabers?
Red for villains and blue (and green) for heroes is what's cliched. Frankly, it's a cliche I'm sick and tired of and have been for some time, now (The same goes with villains wearing black and being ugly, heroes wearing white and being beautiful, etc.).
It was already seen with Luke having blue and green and Vader having red in the originals.
Let's say someone makes a film, or a trilogy of films, which takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where the vast majority of the human race was been wiped out, leaving only three survivors, two of which are blonde with the third being a redhead; we never see any other humans at all through this entire trilogy -- not in flashbacks, not in background photos, drawings, or paintings -- none whatsoever.
Now, let's say that following this trilogy, the filmmaker(s) decide to make prequels or sequels to it, ones with a far larger cast of characters in them. Do you assume all these extra characters are going to be blondes and redheads like the characters in the original trilogy, or do you think that people with black and brown hair might exist in this world, too?
What does the color of a lightsaber have to do with writing?
Nothing, really. Some people like variety in their visuals, though, just like they like variety in their food, their drink, their music, their clothes, etc.