steve kwan user experience designer

Christopher Lee's penis

(August 1st, 2005 - 11:22PM)

So Richard and I were talking about Star Wars (as we often do), and I brought up Count Dooku's lightsaber.

In case you didn't notice: Count Dooku, the idiotically-named Sith played by Christopher Lee in the newer/crappier Star Wars movies, has a very oddly shaped lightsaber. I'm not sure where the need to jazz up lightsabers came from; maybe George Lucas decided to spice things up a bit in the new movies. I figure it started with Darth Maul, whose double-bladed lightsaber in Episode I was admittedly cool.

Now, it's not much of a stretch to imagine a lightsaber as a sexual aid from a galaxy far, far away. But make it a little more curvacious and put a knob on the end, and you're really pushing it. I decided to find a picture of Count Dooku's lightsaber for Richard, and this is what I saw on Amazon:

I don't know what can be said about that. Christopher Lee already has that "creepy old man" image and really doesn't need more help from George Lucas. The "tool" itself is certainly questionable enough, but the boy's enthusiasm to be grabbing it by the hilt is all the creepier. One could work wonders with this picture and Photoshop. Like so.

I wonder if I'll go to jail for that.