Reply to post: Re: People are griping about the practicality of a "light sabre"?

Star Wars: Episode VII trailer lands. You call that a lightsaber? THIS is a lightsaber

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Re: People are griping about the practicality of a "light sabre"?

I think you'll find that most of the serious gripes are with the consistency within the fantasy. Or the aesthetics of this new facet of that fantasy.

i.e. a) a guard that can be sliced through with ease isn't a guard at all (the base of the guards are mechanical/metal). That's a practical objection not with reference to external practicalities but based on the established "physics" *within* the fantasy.

or b) it looks stupid (an objective opinion which by definition is neither valid nor invalid)

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