I was told recently that there was no more indigo in the rainbow... that it has gone the way of pluto!

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I mourned the loss of indigo.

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I always thought indigo was only there for the vowel anyway. Kinda like violet's bf that the crew doesn't really like but he's always willing to be the designated driver.

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I learned it as red orange yellow green blue purple. Well, for paint, anyway. I think I learned it with indigo and violet when we were learning about light waves in physics.

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I was told recently that there was no more indigo in the rainbow... that it has gone the way of pluto!

REALLY????

I mourn the loss of indigo.

I rejoice! I dance upon its grave!

I mean, it's a lovely word and a delightful shade, but I never understood what the hell it was DOING there in the rainbow, logically - I mean, if indigo gets to muscle in along with the primary and secondary colours, why not burnt umber, or crimson, or turquoise? Made no sense to me!

My only guess was that it was to make Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain work properly for schoolkids back in the day, and some random Victorian had decided to include it for the vowel.

dances the dance of sense-making

eta Cross post with amych! Only she said it so much better!

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Well, then he misunderstood, because indigo and sea foam green were about the only two colors he had for the first week.

Is he maybe color blind?

Funny you should ask that. I was having similiar thoughts. With all the drama of the bible. Creation. The heavens. The earth. Water. Land. And then the banishing from Eden. The tempest that floods everywhere. Hell, just the killing of Abel. Not much in color. It's a pretty basic white/amber type of light plot, as far as this simple sound guy can see. I was thinking as Cain feels slighted, his blood pressure rising, maybe some red in the background, slowly growing until he starts trying to kill his brother? Maybe after they eat the fruit, some purple or magenta storm clouds kind of color. Nope. Just darker. I think he is primarily a Lighting person for dance, so his stuff his white light, and let the bodies & costumes do all the work. It's not all that impressive. God did a better job with one big light in the sky, if you ask me.

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I bow to your superior arguments. Indigo is no Pluto.

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But without indigo you have no Roy G. Biv!?!?

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Funnily enough, though, I'm listening to Claire and the Reasons sing Pluto right now:

"Pluto I have some frightful news dear/ In the New York Times they've just reported/You've been overthrown/ From your Solar Throne/ For good./ Pluto/ They say that you can't handle/ Your own gravity./ Well how can you overcome your body force / To clear the pathway for your orbit?/ And all the planets will gather around to have a thing for you/ They'll wrap their orbits warmly around you/ And send you off with love/ Chin up Pluto! /The stars still want you and we down here do too!..." etc etc.

Omnis, I'm pole-axed that an adult working in lighting can not know the colours of the rainbow (with or without indigo!). Pole. Axed.

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Yeah, they can pry indigo out of my cold, dead hands. Why they gotta be messing up all my childhood mnemonic devices?!?!!

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