A yellow lightsaber is now canon in the Skywalker Saga Star Wars universe. That's pretty exciting. The new trilogy brought in a few new details for fans to enjoy about their favorite weapon from a galaxy far far away.
Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, no one had seen a lightsaber with a crossguard before (thanks Kylo Ren). And while all Star Wars fans love this "more civilized weapon for a more civilized age," that doesn't mean they haven't questioned the device before. How exactly does a lightsaber work? Should it work at all? Here are just a few things that make no sense about the fabled Jedi weapon.
10 Rounded Handles/Hilts
Most every lightsaber seen in the Star Wars universe (from Luke's blade in A New Hope to Rey's in The Rise of Skywalker) has a rounded handle. This would not be particularly easy to grip or hold onto during a duel. Most classic sword hilts are actually flat or squared to give fighters a better grip, making it harder to knock the weapon out of their hands. While lightsabers have blades made of light and are thus lighter than a traditional sword, it still seems like a Jedi would want to have a better "handle" on a weapon than the rounded hilts currently imply.
9 Metal Handles/Hilts
Metal, in general physics, is a pretty excellent conductor of heat, and yet, that's what the hilt of most lightsabers is made of. Sure, it all looks great on-screen, but it doesn't really make sense to use a conductor as the hilt of a laser sword that, as it's a laser, would produce quite a bit of heat on its own. Along with the rounded shape, the hilt of a lightsaber should make the weapon more dangerous to the user than the adversary.
8 No Crossguards Or Gloves
Again we are going to examine the safety and stability that is not inherent in using the traditional lightsaber. Aside from Kylo Ren's, no lightsaber has a crossguard, which can be particularly dangerous. Sure, a lightsaber can cut through almost anything, including a crossguard, but that's still one extra thing between the blade and a person's hands. The idea that the hilts are rounded and few fighters ever wear gloves to help them keep a good grip on their weapon also makes very little sense.
7 Battery Life
Blasters in the Star Wars universe are always running out of juice and needing their power packs replaced, but that never seems to happen to a lightsaber. How is it that these weapons, with their laser blades, don't need to recharge the same way their laser-blasting cousins do?
Sure, you can try and make an argument that the power of the force helps to keep them in working order, but what about the untrained or little trained characters like Finn who get ahold of a lightsaber, how would he keep it in good working order all time?
6 Noisy
The sound of a lightsaber coming to life and then the hum of its energy are two of the greatest noises ever developed in the Star Wars universe. While the noise makes sense for the screen, it doesn't make any sense for the weapon. In fact, the noise of the lightsaber is probably one of its greatest disadvantages as a weapon. There's no way to work as a great spy with a lightsaber as your only protection. Han Solo would not have been a very successful smuggler had the lightsaber been his weapon of choice, someone would always have heard him coming.
5 No One Ever Gets Burned
Okay, people get burned or get their wounds cauterized by the heat and power of the blade itself, but no one ever gets burned merely due to the heat a laser blade of that power would be letting off every second of every moment it was open. How a Jedi, or anyone else would be able to keep their bare hands on a metal blade near that kind of heat is a big mystery. The lightsaber can cut through a door but the skin on a Jedi's fingertips never ever begins to peel.
4 Lightsabers Have A Tip
A lightsaber is only ever so tall. Sometimes the blade is shorter, say, when Yoda fights, or a little bit taller like when you have a two-sided blade, such as Darth Maul's. But the fact is the laser beam of a lightsaber always has an end, it comes to a stop.
How is that possible? Lights and lasers, some stronger than others, reach almost infinitely into the sky when turned on, maybe they dissipate at a distance, but that's always going to be way more than four or six feet. How a lightsaber contains its laser power in a defined amount of space is a mystery.
3 Working When They Are Cut in Half
When we see Rey and Kylo Ren pull Anakin's original lightsaber apart it is broken and has to be fixed before it is used again in The Last Jedi. However, in The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul's double-sided blade is cut in half as he duels Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi and, miraculously, both blades continue to work for Maul as the duel continues. That's quite the feat for any technology, and not really plausible, even in the Star Wars universe.
2 They Know To Turn Off
When we see a lightsaber hit the deck in any movie the blade automatically deactivates, and the hilt hops and skids away on the floor (or disappears down a chasm), but how? Does a Jedi have to hold a switch in the on position as they fight for their lives and the lives of others? Is it just a magical force trick? Let's hope not, because that's not a real reason, it's just an excuse.
1 No Accidents
Sure, in Star Wars we get to see many wounds caused by lightsabers, whether Anakin is losing limbs or Han Solo is cutting the guts out of a Tauntaun, but not of those are accidental. There are no small burns as Rey and Finn start using a saber, not even the younglings in the prequels are seen with minor cuts or burns. Again, we understand the force is very powerful, but the lack of small mishaps seems implausible.
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