Reply to: How tulip does the new Star Wars look?

[tractor]

New new trailer.....

Excellent.... Back to Alderaan....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5W...yer_detailpage

[DaveB]

Ah, one of the sword masters gives his opinion on the new light sabre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5h6...D4DSTA&index=1

[TheFaQQer]

Yet another cash in

NSFW

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/2072..._home_active_1

[MyUserName]

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Thanks, try again.

[TheFaQQer]

Ah, one of the sword masters gives his opinion on the new light sabre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG_MJWGSZDQ&list=UUxrd1I7wmE2chwpoqD4DSTA& index=2

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[MyUserName]

Ah, one of the sword masters gives his opinion on the new light sabre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5h6...D4DSTA&index=1

[hyperD]

Doesn't do it for you then?

Ooo-err missus!

[DaveB]

Looks promising – no sign of any stuffed Henson muppets which is good. Bit worried about the Borderlands equivalent of Claptrap on there but definitely can see touches of the Abrams gravitas in there which is good.

Although she's a more mature and interesting woman nowadays, I think I'd still like to see the delightful Ms Fisher in some skimpy space attire. Or her daughter at least.

Doesn't do it for you then?

[hyperD]

Looks promising – no sign of any stuffed Henson muppets which is good. Bit worried about the Borderlands equivalent of Claptrap on there but definitely can see touches of the Abrams gravitas in there which is good.

Although she's a more mature and interesting woman nowadays, I think I'd still like to see the delightful Ms Fisher in some skimpy space attire. Or her daughter at least.

[TheFaQQer]

At the basic, pointy end towards the bad guy, swing it and try and chop bits off while they do the same level, no nothing has been lost. What has been lost is are the skills and training that would let a Jedi turn anyone else not trained to the same level into a pile of diced pork on the floor without breaking sweat. The equivalent of putting you or I into a boxing ring with a professional boxer. You know how to punch someone, but you'd still get mashed by a pro.

This. In the six films, you see very different fighting styles adopted to suit the individual - Yoda has more of a problem fighting Palpatine than Mace Windu does, for example, because of their differing styles (if you read the book, it explains exactly why Mace can do better than Yoda or any other Jedi); Qui-Gon fails against Darth Maul yet his apprentice (with a very different style again) manages to win.

So the core ability of "swing, hit" hasn't been lost - the loss has been the ability to adapt the fighting style to the individual, since there have been no true Jedi about for a while to do that.

[MyUserName]

If you trained to fight with a light sabre like that you would instinctively not cut yourself with the cross guard I suppose but for the amount of protection it offers against another light sabre you might be better off not bothering and using one of the normal ones. I don't use two handed swords with big cross guards unless I am wearing a helmet. I have a habit of hitting myself in the side of the head with the bloody things.

I have trained someone to fight with a light sabre once, it is quite fun and a bit different to a real sword.

[alluvial]

There's got to be a USB Stick somewhere out there in the Galaxy with a file 'How To Build a light sabre.doc'. I am sure it's in Yoda's shack on Dagobah

Back on Tatooine apprently in old Obi-Wan's hut.

[sirja]

They have to build the lightsabers too though, and that becomes a bit of a lost art.

There's got to be a USB Stick somewhere out there in the Galaxy with a file 'How To Build a light sabre.doc'. I am sure it's in Yoda's shack on Dagobah

[DaveB]

A lightsaber is a sword. We haven't forgotten how they work, why would they?

At the basic, pointy end towards the bad guy, swing it and try and chop bits off while they do the same level, no nothing has been lost. What has been lost is are the skills and training that would let a Jedi turn anyone else not trained to the same level into a pile of diced pork on the floor without breaking sweat. The equivalent of putting you or I into a boxing ring with a professional boxer. You know how to punch someone, but you'd still get mashed by a pro.

[Bunk]

A lightsaber is a sword. We haven't forgotten how they work, why would they?

They have to build the lightsabers too though, and that becomes a bit of a lost art.