Circular reasoning,
Joek3rr. It's required because the makers of the canon put it in there. If they did something else,
that would be required. I never had a problem with synthetic crystals, but nor did the materials prior to Clone Wars. Luke made the crystal for
his new lightsaber in a pressure furnace. The fallen Jedi just used
exclusively synthetic because that's all they had access to. As in the real world, I imagine there's nothing wrong with lab-created -- might even be superior -- but they couldn't make them quickly or in sufficient quantity. Might even have had a hippy-ish attachment to getting organic crystals naturally through foraging.
But color had nothing to do with any of that. Or the Force. Since they're not light focused through the crystals, the color of the crystal is irrelevant. Having it somehow reflect the alignment of the maker, Dungeons and Dragons style, also breaks down. The only thing that makes a lick of sense I posted ages ago.
Yes, I know what we have is what we have and we have to deal with it, and you have raised some good points and interpretations, but there are times I wish you would exercise a
little critical thought and not so enthusiastically defend bad or lazy writing. I don't know if Clone Wars overrode the previously established EU lightsaber lore at George's specific direction, or what, but the newer stuff does not work as well as the older stuff, which already had problems. But where do
you draw the line? How much lore-breaking is too much? How out of character does someone need to act before it's indefensible? "It works that way because that's the way they said it works" is intellectually dishonest.
