Lightsaber Color Theory

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Caitlin and Charlotte explore color symbolism behind lightsabers across the saga, dive into some Episode IX theories regarding sabers and rebuilding, talk about kyber crystals and their meaning, and much more. Part one: the symbolism of blue; part two: green, purple, and white; and part three: the meaning behind red. Article on blue referenced: "Two Hundred Years of Blue" https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/17/two-hundred-years-of-blue/ http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher http://skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
0:06.0	The lightsaber is as synonymous with Star Wars as perhaps any movie prop.
0:10.0	The design, the sound, and importantly the color of the blade all provide the audience with information about the character wielding it.
0:17.0	Today, we unpack the symbolism of lightsabers and their colors.
0:35.1	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:38.9	Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:43.3	Hey everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to the show and welcome to 2019.
0:49.8	Happy New Year. Happy New Year. It is the year of Star Wars.
1:15.1	Oh my God. I, oh, who was it? I think it was Anthony Bresnickin who tweeted something today about like, here's a list of everything coming up in 2019 for Star Wars. And the list was so long. I know. I was scrolling through it. I'm like, is this over yet? Oh, my God. It was crazy. I am so ready for all the stuff that's happening. I am scared. I'm not ready for my emotions, but I'm ready to like consume it and talk about it. Yeah, there's, there's not going to be
1:22.0	a dull moment on the Star Wars front this year. It's, it's honestly going to be a bananas year. It's almost good that we didn't
1:29.3	have any movie release this December or like there's just like no room in the schedule for 2019
1:34.0	to handle talking about the movie, the novelization, the DVD, like we just wouldn't have room for it.
1:39.6	And like thank the maker that episode nine is coming at the end of the year or else I don't know
1:43.7	what we would do. I mean, I'd be happy if it came out in May. I'm still kind of disappointed that it got moved back just because it's so far away. But it's actually really close now. So I'm just really excited for it. So I don't really care when it comes out. We'll have lots of things in the interim to like distract us from the fact that we still have 12 months until episode 9.
2:03.1	Exactly.
2:03.9	I do feel like we're in a weird calm right now.
2:06.6	Something we're about to get a title.
2:08.9	It's the calm before the storm.
2:10.6	Like literally, they're giving us this holiday break and then they're not going to let off the gas for the next 12 months.
2:17.8	Legitimately. They're zooming through. They're about to. break and then they're not going to let off the gas for the next 12 months, legitimately.
2:20.6	They're zooming through.
2:21.6	They're about to.
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