Light hilts that create problems during swordfighting?

OR

Tie Fighters STILL shooting at the Falcon after close to 30 years of not being able to bring it down?

If I was a Tie Fighter pilot, and any transponder signal, hull markings, radio communication, rumor or bad feeling made me think that this YT was THE Millennium Falcon with Han Solo aboard her, I would just crash myself into an asteroid and save myself the bother.

just think of the light hilts as insurance in case your thrust goes a little wide

I'm trying not to get hyped for this film...because it's safer to expect crap and be pleasantly surprised.

However...

after 12 viewings...I still get a chill when the theme song starts and the Falcon does her K-Turn.

Time to go watch it again.

I don't get why the hilt has everybody up in a tither. A light saber has always been an impractical dangerous to the operator type weapon.

I say it is about time they've done something about all the lost time injuries due to lightsaber amputations. That **** was getting out of hand (pun intended).

I can overlook a few illogical props as long as the storyline and acting are decent.

*cough* *prequels suck* *cough*

We do have to adjust our expectations to the primal feeling of STARWARS!!! we've been hard-wired to experience since childhood

Still, I think it'll at least be a distraction (and not a painful one, because I don't think you can make anything worse than the prequels). While I believe JJ's handling of the new Star Trek was incredibly mediocre from a story-telling perspective (as an original story, since new Trek has nothing to do with the old) I'm cautiously optimistic because Star Wars was always the Space Fantasy that the new Star Trek tried (and kind of failed) to be.

I'd be ecstatic if we had Whedon on the project. Polarizing though he may be, you can't stop me from enjoying Avengers, Serenity, and Cabin in the Woods

With the lightsaber crossguard, we're already talking about a handheld weapon that would seriously injure the user if s/he touches 90% of it. It's already such an insanely impractical weapon that no-one in their right mind would use it. This is Star Wars, you have to leave any thought of practicality at the door.

I'm willing to bet Yoda has shares in the company that makes those cybernetic replacement limbs. It's the only reasonable explanation.

The LightSaber is probably already the single worst sword style weapon in creation.

Try swinging a sword, and feel the momentum. Now take away all the weight of the blade and all that momentum. Try to keep that blade straight while swinging it with any type of power or even reversing direction etc without flicking the lethal end towards yourself at some point.

Adding the crossguard doesnt do that much more to make it dangerous to the use but look at the length of that blade. This isnt a spinny flaring blur of a blade or a fencing rapier, this is a claymore. Completely different style to what weve seen already.

The LightSaber is probably already the single worst sword style weapon in creation.

Try swinging a sword, and feel the momentum. Now take away all the weight of the blade and all that momentum. Try to keep that blade straight while swinging it with any type of power or even reversing direction etc without flicking the lethal end towards yourself at some point.

Adding the crossguard doesnt do that much more to make it dangerous to the use but look at the length of that blade. This isnt a spinny flaring blur of a blade or a fencing rapier, this is a claymore. Completely different style to what weve seen already.

Which might actually be a saving grace for it.

The laser hilt's just a bad idea, it's there to look cool thats all it has no real practical uses.

Sadly this is pretty typical of jar jar and leaves me worried about what he's done to the rest of the film.

The laser hilt's just a bad idea, it's there to look cool thats all it has no real practical uses.

Sadly this is pretty typical of jar jar and leaves me worried about what he's done to the rest of the film.

Will you ever not find a reason to complain?

The first post-OT film, with Original trilogy characters and the heroic comeback of the Millennium Falcon and yet somehow, you're still finding something to complain about?

How on earth?

The laser hilt's just a bad idea, it's there to look cool thats all it has no real practical uses.

Sadly this is pretty typical of jar jar and leaves me worried about what he's done to the rest of the film.

X being a bad idea and just being there to be cool is basically the whole philosophy behind the ship designs (and light-sabers, if they could concrete light or w.e those crystal emanate into a static beam you'd think they'd make a gun out of it...)

Star-wars has utilized World War 2 physics in space since episode 4 (and without the practicality of heavy machine guns mowing down hundreds of men, jedi included because good luck against that rate of fire), I think we're past the point where anyone bothered by "rule of cool" would still be on board

The LightSaber is probably already the single worst sword style weapon in creation.

Try swinging a sword, and feel the momentum. Now take away all the weight of the blade and all that momentum. Try to keep that blade straight while swinging it with any type of power or even reversing direction etc without flicking the lethal end towards yourself at some point.

Adding the crossguard doesnt do that much more to make it dangerous to the use but look at the length of that blade. This isnt a spinny flaring blur of a blade or a fencing rapier, this is a claymore. Completely different style to what weve seen already.

...and yeah yeah that legends not cannon now...

lightsabers we always had a basic sword on film until the prequals. then Darth Maul intduces the Bo Staff Count Duku had more of a Foil fell to his and Now a Broad Sword who is to say like wise with swords in medevil times why cant there me multiple types in a long time ago in a galexy far away

Le'ts just avoid Katanas.

Why is the lightsaber getting all the hate? I agree it looks totally stupid, but...

That soccerball droid deserves at least as much rage. I hate that stupid thing...

All i can do is remember sadly the comment "We are going to avoid CG and use practical fx whenever possible" I knew that was a lie *L*

And i concur. what the hell is up with the soccer droid

I just want to kick it...

Wait...

Why is the lightsaber getting all the hate? I agree it looks totally stupid, but...

That soccerball droid deserves at least as much rage. I hate that stupid thing...

It's more of a threat to the owner than to the enemy, we've had decades of lightsaber development through the EU books and games and no one ever came up with a stupid idea like this.

The hilt has never been used for blocking like a traditional sword, if your letting the enemies blade make contact there you've lost the weapon, your hand and probably your life.

the FOOTBALL droid is silly aswell but then droid design has never been about practicality, gonk droids are awesome but hardly a super practical design with those stubby legs and no way to get up if it falls.

I agree completely on the lightsaber, and it is worse to cut your hand off than to have an ugly droid.

I simply believe the SOCCER droid looks equally stupid, even if it won't cut off your hand.

*take's out a lightsaber that has a basket hilt made of laser energy and a small blade perfect for self harm sticking out the bottom* FOOTBALL!

Lol. I surrender! Don't shank me! You might shank yourself, and we don't want that. I will say football!

I actually like the droid concept. It's fanciful and hard to believe, yet somehow believable, which is what I'd expect technology of the far future to be.

Not so sure about the light sabre yet. It looks bad-@$$, but I'll withhold judgment on the practicality until I see it in action. It might surprise me.

I thought the soccer droid was awesome, but I agree a football droid would be terrible, it would barely be able to turn around!

Some people say soccer. Others say football. I say best cure for insomnia ever invented.