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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.

That's why I sometimes wish Lucas had stuck with his original idea to make all lightsabers white (or red, if you're going by the original draft). It's no secret that I love lightsaber colour diversity, but I'd prefer one-colour uniformity over the cliched nonsense established in the PT.

Neither of those posters have teal. Orange, yes, but teal?

I don't see it.

ATMachine said:

Leonardo said:

Darth Id said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Meh. Aside from his stupid name...I have nothing against Cad Bane....

 What else could you possibly need?  "Cad Bane"?  Are you serious?   That can't really be a character name.

Do they have a "Jerk Awful" yet?

How about a "Meany Monsterman"?

http://youtu.be/ABcXyZn9xjg?t=15m51s

 For my money "Cad Bane" is a much better name by miles than "Savage Opress."

Seriously, that's like somebody paid a 5-year-old to come up with a new SW character, and he said "he's Darth Maul's twin brother, and his name is Savage Opress!"

Worst part: They couldn't even spell "oppress" right. ;P

Yeah, it's a poor name. They could have at least spelled his first name as "Savaj" to disguise its underlying juvenility.

Don't worry -- it's nothing sexual. Stupid, yes, but not sexual.

Are you saying you don't enjoy seeing Dolph Lundgren run around in a brown speedo while in the company of a syphilitic dwarf?

SilverWook said:

OMG! That made my day, and Jaxxon's too. :)

Got a link to who made that comic?

http://johndouglasart.blogspot.ca/2015/05/may-fourth-be-with-you.html

I know, right? It's like Hamlet violently collided with Macbeth and formed a gloriously hideous hybrid.

EPISODE FU666:

"MILKING & BEATING A DEAD COW/HORSE HYBRID"

ACT I

"My name is Homer J. Simpson. I like to eat and drink a lot. I'm also bald and fat".

"Homer. I, your gorgeous, sexy wife Marge, fantasize about you when I stroke my pussycat even though you are morbidly obese and never clean the smegma out of your foreskin. Regardless, I am putting you on a diet."

"I will start on this diet you speak of. But first, I must watch the comedic stylings of the crusty clown".

"No. I command you to go for a walk in the park".

*ANNOYED GRUNT*

*TIME PASSES*

"What a walk I am going on! I can feel the poundage departing as I speak!"

"I, Jason Voorhees, who haunts this park, will kill you now".

*ANNOYED GRUNT*

*LOUD MURDEROUS SOUNDS*

"I have killed you!"

"You have killed me!"

ACT II

"Homer has not returned from his walk! Jason Voorhees must have killed him! I must contact the police so that I may have my revenge!"

*PHONES THE POLICE*

"Police chief Clancy Wiggum, go to the park and shoot Jason Voorhees. I must have my revenge!"

"I am sorry, Mrs. Simpson, but I fell down reaching for my box of donuts and can't get up. You must seek help elsewhere".

"Very well. I shall".

*HANGS UP & PHONES SOMEONE ELSE*

"Mr. Charles Montgomery Burns?"

"I am Mr. Burns!"

"Mr. Burns, Jason Voorhees killed my husband, Homer."

"This name is unknown to me!"

"Homer Simpson, sir, the gastronomic leech who ostensibly operates out of Sector 7G of the nuclear power plant which you, yourself, own. He has been a source of bemusement for uncounted seasons".

"Ah, yes, Waylon Smithers! I now recall this Simpson fellow!"

"Mr. Burns, sir, the police refuse to get involved. You must act in their stead!"

"Very well. I know someone who can destroy Jason Voorhees. But first, you must do me a favour".

"What is the favour you ask?"

"Various acts of penetrative and non-penetrative sex!"

"No.  I am too wholesome for that. You may have sex with my two sisters instead".

"Are they comely?"

"Only from behind, while wearing a pair of paper bags over their heads, in the dark".

"Though I am richer than God and can pay for the most beautiful whores in the universe, I agree to copulate with your hideous siblings! Jason Voorhees will meet with swift retribution before the week is out!"

ACT III

*SOMEONE KNOCKS ON THE FRONT DOOR*

*OPENS THE DOOR*

"Hello?"

"Mrs. Simpson, I am Prof. Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men. I am here to aid you in your vengeance against Jason Voorhees."

"Oh, rapture!"

"I am sending my newest X-Man, Phenomena, to the park where Jason Voorhees is. She will defeat him."

"What are her powers?"

"She talks to bugs."

"A most potent ability!"

ACT IV

"I, Phenomena, in reality Jennifer Connel -- AHEM! -- Corvino, have been sent to the park to do battle with Jason Voorhees!"

"You will succumb to my chainsaw in a violent, grisly, fatal manner!"

"You will not kill me, Jason Voorhees! I possess a power -- the most powerful power of all! The power to control insects!"

"Bah! I will crush your insects like insects beneath my feet!"

"Ah, but you forget -- even the most powerful insect in conventional existence bends to my every whim."

"Name this vaunted insect, child, if you can!"

"Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!"

"It's showtime!"

"I am undone!"

*AWESOME ACTION BATTLE MUSIC*

"Betelgeuse has emerged victorious! Jason Voorhees is dead!"

"I am dead!"

ACT V

*SOMEONE KNOCKS ON FRONT DOOR*

"Yes?"

"Jason Voorhees is defeated".

"My Homer is avenged!"

*TIME PASSES*

"I am Bart, man, Homer & Marge's sociopathic son. Me and my boyfriend Milhouse --"

"Hi!"

"-- are performing a seance! We will summon Homer's spirit up from the netherworld!"

"I am the ghost of Homer Simpson, your father!"

"Cool, man!"

"Son, you must help me! I am in Hell!"

"Radical, dude!"

"Not radical! My punishment for a lifetime of sin is to be sodomized by the tormented soul of Frank Grimes for all eternity! I need you to come down here and get me out before I'm forced to admit I secretly like it!"

"Ah, Simpson, there you are! Be nice and come here right now and I'll use the lube gun before violating your rear orifice".

*ANNOYED GRUNT*

...

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR EPISODE FU666 2.0: "Bart & Homer vs. Frank Grimes in Sodomite Hell!"

This one page

is better than any of Marvel's new material made to date.

Tobar said:

BONUS IMAGE:

I guess this is what you get when Gizmo and Jaxxon step into a transporter together.

And let's not forget Masters of the Universe.

I cry for both of us.

towne32 said:

This topic is my second favorite obsession of this site. First is the red lightsaber fixation. Though, to be fair, I think that one is mostly a single person IIRC.

*swells with pride* 

A note of caution: Never touch your eyes after handling spicy food with your bare hands.

Tobar said:

While I too prefer them in their original strip format. It should be noted that they actually got Al Williamson to come back and reformat it for them. He was involved at every level of the process: drawing new transitional pages and expanding panels. He even threatened to quit if they didn't follow his color guide to the letter.

I'm mildly surprised to learn this. When I first read the Dark Horse collections and saw this lady

wearing red pants that obviously weren't intended to be there when the art was originally drawn, I'd assumed that some puritanical editor was engaging in some non-Williamson-approved censorship.

The name "Don-Wan" aside, the Kihotay character is meant to be a homage to Don Quixote, not Don Juan. 

So, he's obliquely implying that TPM is just as good as A Goofy Movie, one of my all-time favourite movies of all time?

Oh, and BTW, if you ever stumble across a copy of the above, for the love of all things holy, DON'T BUY IT. I bought a copy second-hand, and I still feel ripped off.

ZkinandBonez said:

I mean Grevious, Plegeuis and Tyrannus is some pretty lazy writing, but it's a tad better than making a blatant reference to Don Quixote.

Not sure if computes.  

Leonardo said:

*goes to read cast*

*Rick Moranis isn't in it*

not interested.

LOL. I think Rick dodged a bullet there. 

Leonardo said:

I'm confused. Is Artoo a cyborg, now, or a muscle man with a trash can worn over his head?

After trying (and failing) to rewatch the entire first season of this show, I've only got one question: How did I fail to recognize how utterly stupid this show was as a kid? I was something of a dim bulb in my youth, but even at eleven years old, I should have been able to see that the writing was atrociously bad.

Oh, well, it's just yet another show in a growing list of shows from my youth which don't live up to nostalgia. At this point, I'm almost desensitized to the disappointment ... *sigh*

ATMachine said:

I mean, has Glover even seen the beginning of the film in the last 30 years?

Literally no. He's says in the article that he only saw the film once, back when it was originally released. 

Still, I would have liked to have seen some black in there.