Colbert discusses the new trailer, and explains the new lightsaber:
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Screaming audience (seriously, what the fuck people) aside, this is exactly what I came up with immediately too
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(from here)
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It occurs to me that we’ve got a much bigger Internet, with more nerds with a bunch more time on their hands, than Lucasfilm faced back in '99.
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Alternatively, on the official t-shaped crossguard, wrap the emitter in a thin cortosis shield. When a Jedi, assuming he can simply slice through the crossguard makes the attempt, he ends up with a deactivated lightsaber and a bunch of lunging momentum aimed at the ground. Then the Sith can simply cleave the Jedi in twain as he continues face-first into the ground.
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Is it canon for lightsaber beams to even slide against each other like metal blades? Or getting fingers cut off all the time on the old guardless design was just a sad limitation of the tech just begging for innovation?
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I’m not sure. I was under the impression that the reason you don’t see blades sliding against each other in the original trilogy was due to the fighting technique. I could be mistaken though. Wookieepedia’s ligthsaber article says that there were considerable gyroscopic forces involved with using a lightsaber due to the movement of the plasma, so that might also limit effective techniques. At least in the Clone Wars CG series, only jedi and other force users seem to swing the blade and rotate it around the hilt’s x and z axises. Most non-force users seem to just move the hilt without rotation in the orientation they ignited the lightsaber in, so there’s that.
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