It looks like somebody leaked the Force Awookens blu-ray this week.
The part I really have trouble with is that thereâs nothing in A New Hope to suggest that Anakinâs lightsaber isnât the one Obi-Wan fights Darth Vader with (and therefore gets destroyed with the rest of the Death Star). We only see one blue lightsaber in the whole movie, and if Luke had his lightsaber with him, the trash compactor scene would have been a lot shorter.
The lightsaber he has against Darth Vader is definitely a different design than the one given to Luke.
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Nothing aside from the fact that thereâs no reason that Obi-Wan, a Jedi Knight, would not have own lightsaber and would instead borrow back dead apprenticeâs lightsaber from his son. I donât think the existence of two blue lightsabers threw anyone for a second.
âI see you have constructed a new light saber. Your skills are complete.â
The only reason the recover of Anakinâs original lightsaber (as described above) matters at all in EU is because finding it and the hand allow them to clone Luke (which was either in Darksaber or one of the related novels).
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Heir to the Empire series if I recall correctly. The Last Command to be exact. No, I didnât just look at the bookshelf next to me.
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Or alternatelyâŚ
(by Ayej, who has some awesomely funny Witcher comics there. Like a video-gamey Kate Beaton)
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Exhibit A: Palpatineâs three-eyed son, Triclops.
Exhibit B: The Yuuzhan Vong, a Force-resistant Borg-ish S&M species that was all spikes and death and murdered 300 trillion people for fun, plus Chewbacca.
Exhibit C: Ziro the Hutt, the sadly-canon uncle of Jabba, who (on direct orders from Lucas) was a flamingly gay Hutt with the voice of Truman Capote.
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That never was canon.
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Making a lightsaber as a requirement on the path to becoming a Jedi Master is reinforced in a few episodes of Rebels. Ezra incorporated a blaster into his lightsaber, Obi Wan wouldâve hated that.
Exhibit A(1): While imprisoned in the Kessel mines asylum, Triclops was often whipped by the Supreme Slavelord himself, another three-eyed man named Trioculus.[9]
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Selfies.
It was a Jedi Fad for a while. Stuff a GoPro in your lightsaber for some bitchinâ footage and then you might want some group shots afterwards.
⢠anything in the 7 movies
Youâre mistaken. There are only 4 movies.
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Ugh. Yeah, I know. The prequels werenât that great. I get it.
Hereâs the thing: Lucas, in his elder years, is a lousy director and an even lousier writer. But the prequel movies were still wonderful sources of worldbuilding and imagination. They gave better storytellers than Lucas the tools to make really excellent stories that wouldnât have existed if not for the prequel movies. So Iâm glad they exist, though I donât intend to watch them again anytime soon.
What I hate is that some of it is just super dumb (i.e. Six year old Darth Vader made C-3PO.), some is just bad story decisions (i.e. Young Obi-Wan totally should have been brash, and been more like, âScrew you little old green man! I totally know what Iâm doing teaching this kid.â, and then later became the more sedate wise old man of the original trilogy because, âOh shit. Damn. I fucked up real bad.â), and others directly counter the originals (i.e. Leia remembers her mom.).
Killing off Leiaâs mom in childbirth is just stupid. Sure thereâs some fan boy is going to say, "Yeah, well that wasnât Bail Organaâs wife, not her real mom, and blah blah, " but thatâs just as stupid as trying to say, âActually, it does make sense to measure speed units of distance here.â No, in both itâs just a mistake.
Donât even get me started on Star Trek Enterprise, and the damn âaugment virusâ. The foreheads are just a retcon, just deal with it.
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Oh, believe me, I know. Lucasâ storytelling is clunky, poorly thought out, and full of goofy discrepancies. Bad dialogue, poor motivations, all of that stuff. As movies: not great. As sources of new races, new creatures, new worlds, new ship designs, new worldbuilding concepts, and, well, Coruscant, theyâre great â the designers who worked on them had fun. But thatâs me talking as a guy who plays Star Wars tabletop RPGs.
I didnât have any intention to, having never seen it.
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But thatâs me talking as a guy who plays Star Wars tabletop RPGs.
WEG D6 4-Life! 
I didnât have any intention to, having never seen it.
Two words: Space Nazis
Iâm not even joking. I only saw like 5 episodes, and one of them had honest to god Space Nazis.
AGAIN?
They had them in the original series. And in Voyager.
Thereâs only three, but theyâve made one of them twice.
