It makes sense actually that the jedi lightsabers arent as beautiful and decorative as the ones in the early High Republic actually, someone else pointed out to me that the practice became uncommon after the Nihil established themselves and the Guardian Protocols were activated in favor of simpler sabers with easier to replace parts.
@@TheRedBrethrenthat’s cuz the comics aren’t canon. Doesn’t mean they aren’t cool! But I’m not taking the writing of some Amature artist as lore. Especially when there’s no communication between creative leaders. I think it’s very important that we keep them separate. Very important. Otherwise we open up the door to pollution. Above all else we need to preserve George’s original vision.
force activated doesn't have to mean force powered like the rakatan blades though. It might just be that the switch is on the inside and you have to activate it with telekinesis if you know the location of the switch.
That one with three separate blade emitters that made it look like a longsword is probably the coolest lightsaber I've ever seen. They've gotten kind of old over the years for me and I've always had a soft spot for medieval themes, so I absolutely love it.
I disagree with many things in the High Republic, but I do agree it is the only time we should be seeing Jedi with extravagant lightsabre designs. Function should always come before form with any weapon, of course.
@@Vicenteprz how bold of you to assume it's just kids buying toys. honestly though I still probably wouldn't buy any of the new sabers and just build them myself
I really wish. One of my main complaints about Disney+ SW so far is that the production looks so toned down, only a fraction of what it should actually look like. The sabers all look like they’re strictly buildable in Galaxy’s Edge, instead of going for more creative and outlandish looking Hilts with more personality.
Tbf not a lot of effort was put into designing the sets of the original trilogy either. Often times props and constumes were whatever they could find at the thrift store. I get what you mean though. Star Wars concept art is almost always awesome and i wish more of it got into the final product
@@theanimeboy9953 I also like the Force-Activated Lightsaber, because it makes perfect sense in my opinion. Such a weapon would be useless for anyone who can’t access the Force, like General Grievous
Bro that black hilt with force activation without a button would probably been shown why a specific sith with that exact hilt is stupid powerful i wish they kept it
Thar organic saber looks like something a Voong would use. I love it! Say what you will about contemporary Star Wars these days, but one thing they ARE doing very well in is the art and design. I cannot get enough of those art books.
In some Legends book I read like 30yrs ago, there was a force-sensation boss, who was taking on apprentices. Maybe he claimed to be a competing group of new Jedi… maybe he was Sith. 30 years is a long time to remember the finer details. But he also used the “force activated” sabers. If memory serves. It was still just a button, it was just inside the thing, so only a force user could press it. I want to say, in a Chekov’Gun kind of way, having to use the force to turn it on meant someone else could turn it off. That’s speculation on my part, though.
I wish they kept the teal color for the one saber I would love to see a teal lightsaber in live action Luke’s in the original A New Hope version doesn’t count cause I’m talking really vibrant teal like Sunrider's Destiny from legends
I like these designs but I also think some were a bit much for the characters. I think the marble lightsaber would have been distracting on indara. These are definitely designs they should make use of in future though. The marble blade and sith rib saber could probably work in dawn of the jedi, as the designs feel super ancient.
They are super ancient... And lavish and decadent and put form over Function... Thats why embellishments were banned By the high republic... Kinda Like the prodestants irl... It also makes the jedi look greedy if they have a lightsaber that could feed 12 Star Systems and Fund Part of a GALACTIC Rebellion if lost...
If I were a force user making a light saber it would definitively only be activated or deactivated through the use of force and probably have some code built into the process so that even if another force user picked it up they would not simply be able to use its controls.
They didnt choose based on what is established in prior canon. They chose the designs that would be easiest to make into a hasbro glowstick and use on set. If they still made the blades entirely with cgi and didnt use light up sabers on set they could be a lot more creative with the hilt designs.
They need to make a movie called the schism. or something. and make it about the first Jahdae civil war, or however you say it fought to get rid of the darksiders who were using dark side alchemy. Thats what got the dark siders banished and created the Jedi at the same time.
I’m kind of disappointed count doku didn’t have a marble gold design since it’s directly linked to his classical lightsaber skills as a fencer or sabre master there’s a different class to someone who knows fencing you see so the marble look would make it feel more like he was fighting with class
The "High Jedi" See it as lavish and decadent and put form over Function... Thats why embellishments were banned By the high republic... It also makes the jedi look greedy if they have a lightsaber that could feed 12 Star Systems and Fund Part of a GALACTIC Rebellion if lost... But after He became a sith makes sense
There's a lot off beautiful looking artwork and character designs, It's just a shame that the writers and actors barely had any knowledge or respect for the story. A show about the Old Republic is something that I've been hoping for since I heard Episode I of the Disney Trilogy released.
Imagine how mu h people would have bitched about these if they made it in... like they are venuinely badass.. ut you know the cufrent "fans" would gnash their teeth and claim disney "ruined starwars forever"..
played it safe with the traditional stuff cause most starwars fans don't like it when you change the status quo edit: I have no preference on either choice, just stating why they did it
@@derrickjenkins2455 yall act like you know everything about the force like your some kind of lore master or something. yeah bro, ive read every legends book and comic. that doesnt make me an expert. just makes me a good reader.
@@derrickjenkins2455 oh no another faction of force users that interprets the force differently 😰 *cough* *cough* the nightsisters aing tii monks knights of ren whills the mustafarians revanites
@@chocolatebar6785 even the jedi have diversity of thought regarding the force in the high republic era. The books give focus to exactly how each person sees the force. The metaphor of a thread wouldn't be very far off from that.
Ehh, will still prefer the clean looking, practical-all-the-way Jedi sabers, especially double-bladed sabers that can split into two individual sabers. And who knows, a select few may actually be made out of foreign materials like mithril, but that's an exclusive for undercover Multiversal operatives doing whatever which way to any SW universe.
As a designer I can say this show had S**T design. I’ll tell you why. I suspect they hired a lot of woke artists. They are breading like flys in the schools right now. From my experience in the industry those artists are more concerned with expressing their new identity through their art than just making good designs. It’s actually a really big issue right now. I know a lot of creative directors who won’t even hire people like that because they just become a hindrance. They want a stage, and everyone to compliment their work. They wanna put “their” mark on star wars instead of doing what’s best for the story. There’s no room for ego in this field. Do your work, and do it well for the legacy of the product.
Eh, designs are hit and miss, concept artists often seem to forget these days that people actually have to hold those things and do choreographed fights with them. That's always been somewhat of an issue with lightsaber props. The big problem of The Acolyte is the abysmally badly conceived story and awful/nonexistent direction given to actors though resulting in a schizophrenically paced, nonsensical story held together by a string of insane coincidences and inconsistent character behavior, combined with the team's self-evident contempt for the source material and those who enjoy it. It could have been made for half the cost with generic uninteresting saber props but good writing would have led to a positive reaction regardless. A New Hope was made for about one fifth the money (adjusted for inflation). I really want anyone reading this to spend a few minutes thinking on that, this show, which can't even meet the bare minimum tests for competency in basically any field, cost five times as much as one of the best individual movies in the entire franchise and the one which laid out the groundwork for everything that came afterwards. If this had been released instead of ANH, Star Wars would have died in the cradle.
You didnt have to describe it as "Designed for the sith's pleasure"
😐😰🤣
Sounds like a lightsaber kink to me
Having to is the only reason someone would.
Ribbed
Qimirs Rose toy
0:30 "designed for the Sith's pleasure"........
uhhhhh huh, the inserting variety...the Leslye Headland brand
You stole my joke but worded it better. Have this ❤️
@@Tatsu4242 appreciate it. Thank you
its even ribbed lol
"Uh Huh, what region ?"
"uuupstate New York."
Looks more like a Dragon of the Bad variety.....
It makes sense actually that the jedi lightsabers arent as beautiful and decorative as the ones in the early High Republic actually, someone else pointed out to me that the practice became uncommon after the Nihil established themselves and the Guardian Protocols were activated in favor of simpler sabers with easier to replace parts.
Yes!! I wish more people realized this.
@@tylercooley321 not many read the comics and even more just like to complain
@@TheRedBrethrenthat’s cuz the comics aren’t canon. Doesn’t mean they aren’t cool! But I’m not taking the writing of some Amature artist as lore. Especially when there’s no communication between creative leaders. I think it’s very important that we keep them separate. Very important. Otherwise we open up the door to pollution. Above all else we need to preserve George’s original vision.
Lol. "designed for Sith's pleasure". Shaa-wing!
It's force activated, so you don't have to worry about accidentally pressing the button.
Could go very badly wrong for a sith that gets a bit annoyed with the traffic when docking.
All that ribbing.... reminds me of toy and not a weapon
“Robbed “
“A ribbed sabre, designed for the Sith’s pleasure”. I see what you did there.
force activated doesn't have to mean force powered like the rakatan blades though. It might just be that the switch is on the inside and you have to activate it with telekinesis if you know the location of the switch.
That one with three separate blade emitters that made it look like a longsword is probably the coolest lightsaber I've ever seen. They've gotten kind of old over the years for me and I've always had a soft spot for medieval themes, so I absolutely love it.
It's a real shame that they couldn't get better writers for the series cause everything else is great.
I disagree with many things in the High Republic, but I do agree it is the only time we should be seeing Jedi with extravagant lightsabre designs. Function should always come before form with any weapon, of course.
Force Activated Lightsabers first appeared in the 1994 EU novel _The Crystal Star_ by Vonda N. McIntyre.
uuuuuu designs of the weapons of anykind is my ... favorite thing to watch
It's like they forgot Star Wars is about selling toys...
they no longer have the attention of kids lmao kids this day won’t sit and watch star was anymore they need 30 second content like skibiditoilet
@@Vicenteprz how bold of you to assume it's just kids buying toys. honestly though I still probably wouldn't buy any of the new sabers and just build them myself
@@Vicenteprz youth still watches movies but good ones like dune
I mean it can still be a toy, just not one for kids
@@j_official4138dune where the plot about slavery and killing each other family member? What kind of ad are you trying to advertise? 💀🙏
imagine caring about anything from the acolyte
Deadass.
I really wish. One of my main complaints about Disney+ SW so far is that the production looks so toned down, only a fraction of what it should actually look like. The sabers all look like they’re strictly buildable in Galaxy’s Edge, instead of going for more creative and outlandish looking Hilts with more personality.
Tbf not a lot of effort was put into designing the sets of the original trilogy either. Often times props and constumes were whatever they could find at the thrift store. I get what you mean though. Star Wars concept art is almost always awesome and i wish more of it got into the final product
"Designed for a sith's pleasure" my dude you have SINNNNED
you have a unique way of making complex topics accessible! ️
now bad dragon will probably do a star wars line of products
I liked the lightsaber with three blades
It could still be used for giants
@@theanimeboy9953 I also like the Force-Activated Lightsaber, because it makes perfect sense in my opinion. Such a weapon would be useless for anyone who can’t access the Force, like General Grievous
The Jedilette Mach 3
“Switchless” sabers is a gimmick. The switch is just inside the saber and activated telekinetically with the force.
0:15 that one looks like cals saber that jaro give him
Bro that black hilt with force activation without a button would probably been shown why a specific sith with that exact hilt is stupid powerful i wish they kept it
0:39 it is also seen in the novel "the crystal star" I think
Thar organic saber looks like something a Voong would use. I love it! Say what you will about contemporary Star Wars these days, but one thing they ARE doing very well in is the art and design. I cannot get enough of those art books.
Dude... I kind of love these. This is the kind of stuff we should be getting, not the Helicopter Auto-Dismemberer 9000.
Omg thank you XD 1000%
In some Legends book I read like 30yrs ago, there was a force-sensation boss, who was taking on apprentices. Maybe he claimed to be a competing group of new Jedi… maybe he was Sith. 30 years is a long time to remember the finer details. But he also used the “force activated” sabers. If memory serves. It was still just a button, it was just inside the thing, so only a force user could press it. I want to say, in a Chekov’Gun kind of way, having to use the force to turn it on meant someone else could turn it off. That’s speculation on my part, though.
the moment i saw the ribbed one i knew you were gonna make that joke oh my Lord
I wish they kept the teal color for the one saber I would love to see a teal lightsaber in live action Luke’s in the original A New Hope version doesn’t count cause I’m talking really vibrant teal like Sunrider's Destiny from legends
I like these designs but I also think some were a bit much for the characters. I think the marble lightsaber would have been distracting on indara. These are definitely designs they should make use of in future though. The marble blade and sith rib saber could probably work in dawn of the jedi, as the designs feel super ancient.
They are super ancient... And lavish and decadent and put form over Function... Thats why embellishments were banned By the high republic... Kinda Like the prodestants irl... It also makes the jedi look greedy if they have a lightsaber that could feed 12 Star Systems and Fund Part of a GALACTIC Rebellion if lost...
If I were a force user making a light saber it would definitively only be activated or deactivated through the use of force and probably have some code built into the process so that even if another force user picked it up they would not simply be able to use its controls.
They didnt choose based on what is established in prior canon. They chose the designs that would be easiest to make into a hasbro glowstick and use on set. If they still made the blades entirely with cgi and didnt use light up sabers on set they could be a lot more creative with the hilt designs.
Wait.. your complaining that they used practical effecrs?
Well yes... Duh shiny unrealistic lazer tubes look better in CGI
[Bad News]: The Designs Were Cut. They All Carry Similar Gunmetal Gray Cylinders.
Looks like a Unitologists lightsaber
They need to make a movie called the schism. or something. and make it about the first Jahdae civil war, or however you say it fought to get rid of the darksiders who were using dark side alchemy. Thats what got the dark siders banished and created the Jedi at the same time.
In Shatterpoint, Mace Windu says and shows that his lightsaber requires the force if he needs to swap out the power cell.
Can you explain more because I dont remember that... Didnt it focus on the ability of shatterpoint and Vaapad in that?
Lets use these designs.
I didn't know that the Sith were into Bad Dragons
You know how bad dragons look?
I don’t care a wit about the High Republic, but these lightsabers are dope!
Aight the moment your lightsabers start looking like they are Bad Dragon toys, it's time to stop
I’m kind of disappointed count doku didn’t have a marble gold design since it’s directly linked to his classical lightsaber skills as a fencer or sabre master there’s a different class to someone who knows fencing you see so the marble look would make it feel more like he was fighting with class
The "High Jedi" See it as lavish and decadent and put form over Function... Thats why embellishments were banned By the high republic... It also makes the jedi look greedy if they have a lightsaber that could feed 12 Star Systems and Fund Part of a GALACTIC Rebellion if lost... But after He became a sith makes sense
Sorry but that white marble and gold saber design looks like something from Warframe an Orokin noble would probably kill for that design awsome stuff
What’s the song?
No new designs… not in the $180M budget.
What‘s the name of the background song?
It's simple: they had toys in mind. So these hypercomplex stuff just gonna take too much time to fabricate. probably.
There's a lot off beautiful looking artwork and character designs, It's just a shame that the writers and actors barely had any knowledge or respect for the story. A show about the Old Republic is something that I've been hoping for since I heard Episode I of the Disney Trilogy released.
They can't go with some of the more complex designs. It has to be easy to make into a toy, after all.
if they had made the show pre nihil then we could have gotten them
If only the acolyte was actually good
i hope they use the sith designs. tenebrus and plagues had very basic and uninspired blades
good that acolyte is not canon anymore.
Aw naw WHY CANT DISNEY LET PEOPLE COOK!?!?
But they LITTERALLY don't do what works... And great so apearantly EVERYBODY knows how to make Rakatan technology... Great Lore there.
... I did Like the lightsaber with three blades though
If only the show matched the coolness of the concept designs. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.
Ehehe... CUT their lightsabers
You can't redeem this show.
All I see is awkward handles... Must hurt and make for a bad gripe to fight with.
Imagine how mu h people would have bitched about these if they made it in... like they are venuinely badass.. ut you know the cufrent "fans" would gnash their teeth and claim disney "ruined starwars forever"..
played it safe with the traditional stuff cause most starwars fans don't like it when you change the status quo
edit: I have no preference on either choice, just stating why they did it
Lol, like changing the meaning of the force and changing lore on the fly?
@@derrickjenkins2455 yall act like you know everything about the force like your some kind of lore master or something. yeah bro, ive read every legends book and comic. that doesnt make me an expert. just makes me a good reader.
@@derrickjenkins2455 oh no another faction of force users that interprets the force differently 😰
*cough* *cough*
the nightsisters
aing tii monks
knights of ren
whills
the mustafarians
revanites
@@chocolatebar6785 14% approval rating. I'm not making anything up
@@chocolatebar6785 even the jedi have diversity of thought regarding the force in the high republic era. The books give focus to exactly how each person sees the force. The metaphor of a thread wouldn't be very far off from that.
Bruh, Windu's lightsaber does not have a button and is activated through force. Nothing new, another legends idea repurposed
Ehh, will still prefer the clean looking, practical-all-the-way Jedi sabers, especially double-bladed sabers that can split into two individual sabers.
And who knows, a select few may actually be made out of foreign materials like mithril, but that's an exclusive for undercover Multiversal operatives doing whatever which way to any SW universe.
Stop complimenting terrible artistry. A child with a crayon would be more prolific.
this video has more viewers than the actual show by over 50,000
why are you even covering this
Who invited the Witcher series
lmao woke show go bye bye
A couple are OK. The others are crap.
Ah well, the safer designs are least reasonably cool
Some of the coolest concept designs got turned down for some of the ugliest sabers I’ve ever seen
easily best lightysabre designs in the worst era of star wars LIB WARS
Ahhh you know literally no one watched this show right?
As a designer I can say this show had S**T design. I’ll tell you why.
I suspect they hired a lot of woke artists. They are breading like flys in the schools right now. From my experience in the industry those artists are more concerned with expressing their new identity through their art than just making good designs. It’s actually a really big issue right now. I know a lot of creative directors who won’t even hire people like that because they just become a hindrance. They want a stage, and everyone to compliment their work. They wanna put “their” mark on star wars instead of doing what’s best for the story. There’s no room for ego in this field. Do your work, and do it well for the legacy of the product.
Eh, designs are hit and miss, concept artists often seem to forget these days that people actually have to hold those things and do choreographed fights with them. That's always been somewhat of an issue with lightsaber props. The big problem of The Acolyte is the abysmally badly conceived story and awful/nonexistent direction given to actors though resulting in a schizophrenically paced, nonsensical story held together by a string of insane coincidences and inconsistent character behavior, combined with the team's self-evident contempt for the source material and those who enjoy it.
It could have been made for half the cost with generic uninteresting saber props but good writing would have led to a positive reaction regardless. A New Hope was made for about one fifth the money (adjusted for inflation). I really want anyone reading this to spend a few minutes thinking on that, this show, which can't even meet the bare minimum tests for competency in basically any field, cost five times as much as one of the best individual movies in the entire franchise and the one which laid out the groundwork for everything that came afterwards.
If this had been released instead of ANH, Star Wars would have died in the cradle.
Acolyte mentioned in a not negative light, disliked
show is bad but lightsaber hilts we have in the show are worst.
doesn't matter, the show will be dogwater anyways
This show was supposed to be dark show. This is the most boring star wars show i have seen
It's so unfortunate that a show that was advertised as a murder mystery, solved the murder mystery 2 episodes into the show.
Now its just thirst bait for shippers and people who think they're edgy for saying the Jedi are the bad guys
Whoa whoa how the heck did you pronoun Rakatan?
zzzzzzz...... zzzzzzz........ zzzzzz.......
and instead they go with basic ass designs
the lightsabers in _The Acolyte_ so far have been ugly and boring af.
Bro disney ruined starwars
Unfortunately the concept art is more interesting than the series itself.
Such designs too bad it's a bad show.
the show is just dogsht… please… you literally have to be brain dead to enjoy it
Star Wars is dead. Acolyte finished it off.
It's time we, as a fanbase, finally recognized that fact.