r/StarWars • u/PinkPoncho3 The Mandalorian • 11h ago
Say what you will about Rey, but her lightsaber is absolutely badass. General Discussion
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u/406Punisher 11h ago
Should have been double sided since she used her staff.
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u/Nuryyss 11h ago
That! And she should have used it throughout the movie
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u/Holmcroft 10h ago
I really loved the idea of her rebuilding Luke’s broken lightsaber into a new staff style lightsaber from the Trevorrow script
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u/Revanrenn 10h ago
Especially since the Kyber crystal cracked in two
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u/koller419 7h ago
This brought a thought into my head. Was Ilum the only planet that had Kyber crystals? With it being destroyed that would mean all new Jedi have to find Kyber from old Jedis lightsabers.
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u/TheTwinkieMaster 6h ago
Ezra got his first crystal on Lothal. Not sure if it formed there or if there was so force fuckery going on though.
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u/knight-of-weed 4h ago
I think in Star Wars some stars have Kiber in them, well it’s been hinted at maybe when absorbing the power from a star with the star killer base they managed to harvest the crystal somehow
This only really works kind of later in the series
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u/kleenexflowerwhoosh 6h ago edited 5h ago
I thought they were mining kyber on Jedha?
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u/koller419 6h ago
Were they mining it or taking it from the old Jedi temple there? It's been I while since I watched rogue one so I don't remember.
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u/kleenexflowerwhoosh 5h ago
To the wookiepedia!
“Sometime before the Battle of Yavin, the Galactic Empire occupied the moon to control its kyber crystal resources that were once used by the Jedi Order as components for their lightsabers.“
“Within the moon’s sandstone crust were rich deposits of kyber crystals[3]—Force-attuned crystals that were fundamental in lightsaber construction”
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u/wizardvera 4h ago
I’ve never understood this theory. You can’t cut a battery in half and say “look, two batteries!”
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u/Rhelsr 10h ago edited 4h ago
No thanks, Anakin's lightsaber was already passed down. It should have stayed lost after the Bespin duel.
Maz could have had ANY lightsaber in her basement, but they chose the one lightsaber that was narratively fucked. 🤦♂️
The whole point of sequels is to add to the story in meaningful ways, and they couldn't even decide how to go about showcasing Rey's lightsaber until the very end.
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u/darkbreak Sith 9h ago
In the Expanded Universe Luke recovered the lightsaber and gave it to his wife, Mara Jade, as a wedding present. It became her main weapon from then on.
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u/Rhelsr 9h ago
Did the EU have the decency to include how exactly it was recovered?
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u/JackalKing 9h ago edited 8h ago
Yes, but it wasn't Luke that recovered it from Cloud City and it wasn't a wedding present. Vader recovered it. Palpatine took it from him and locked it (and Luke's hand) away on Mount Tantiss, one of Palpatine's secret storehouses on Wayland. There it stayed until the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The mad Dark Jedi Joruus C'Baoth used Luke's hand to make a clone of Luke and gave the lightsaber to him. The real Luke and Mara Jade defeated C'Baoth and the clone, and then Luke gave the lightsaber to Mara Jade as a gift. She used it until her death, after which Luke kept it in the Jedi Temple.
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u/Rhelsr 8h ago edited 8h ago
I could get behind that. Vader and Luke were the only ones who were actively aware that the lightsaber plummeted towards the lowest levels of Cloud City or Bespin itself. And Vader certainly had the resources and territorial control to scour for it.
The hand stuff is a little weird for my liking though. Is that where the infamous Luuke comes into play? I've seen a lot of people bash it like the Holiday Special.
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u/JackalKing 8h ago edited 5h ago
Yes, that is where Luuke comes in, though its less silly than it sounds in context. We're talking about the Thrawn trilogy here, widely regarded to be one of the best series of Star Wars books there is.
Within the context of the Thrawn Trilogy the only thing really wrong with Luuke is that he has a silly name, which in a Star Wars story is basically mandatory. This is the world that brought us Sleazebaggano and Salacious Crumb. Luke with an extra u doesn't even make the top ten of stupid names. Its explained within the story why his name is like that, but I imagine the practical reason it was written that way was so that the reader would have an easier time actually reading the damn book when both Luke and Luuke are in the scene.
Often people play up how bad it is by combining it with details about Luuuke, a second clone of Luke Skywalker with even MORE u's in his name. The problem with that is that Luuuke, and half the things people usually complain about with Luuke, are from a non-canon story written as an April Fool's joke by Timothy Zahn to poke fun at the clones in his Thrawn Trilogy. The more "holiday special"-y parts are from that story, and not the Thrawn Trilogy itself.
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u/Tribe303 7h ago
Before The Force Awakens was released, I read a leaked script that had the movie starting right after the text scrawl, with Luke's frozen hand and sabre, being mysteriously retrieved from space.
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u/Sere1 Sith 8h ago
Yeah, Luuke is the clone created from the DNA recovered from Luke's severed hand which was collected at the same time as the lightsaber. It's only a chapter or two of the one book in the trilogy and has been blown out of proportion, but yeah that's where the infamous Luuke thing came from. Funny enough it's the only lightsaber duel in the Thrawn Trilogy, with every other lightsaber action being lightsaber vs blaster or lightsaber vs creature. The Holiday Special is worth bashing for how batshit insane it is (still worth watching if only to witness the insanity for yourself) but Luuke is just a silly idea that is removed quickly that people latched on to to bash the EU
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u/zehnodan 9h ago
I'm running off my memory of a book I read a few decades ago. But yes. Both it and Luke's hand was recovered. Luke's hand was used to create a clone.
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u/Thorngrove Imperial 10h ago
Her making a green/blue double blade out of luke and leia's crystals would have been a nice moment.
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u/remainsane 9h ago
Or a turquoise double blade!
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u/Thorngrove Imperial 9h ago
The jokes that would cause though...
We already have Alderaan as the Alabama of the Galaxy.
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u/wanna_talk_to_samson 10h ago
And should have a detailed scene of her constructing it
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u/Wilwheatonfan87 Battle Droid 10h ago edited 10h ago
That whole segment of Fett making his staff was peak star wars for me.
I dont know why Favreau chose to kill off that tribe and went in an opposite direction after that episode. It would have been an amazing opportunity for Boba to unite the tribes AND the cities, settlements, farmers of tattooine to overthrow all outside control and let them become a true independent planet finally prospering under his respectful rule.
It would have been such great writing to push the Lawrence of Arabia narrative they had going on to that point.
They can still salvage that if there ever was a second season.
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u/Apprehensive_Rain880 9h ago
favreau is close to most of the older star wars fans age so he has a appreciation for "training montages" as far as where his shows got things wrong i'm sure some of that was disney, like the tech enhancement kids gang, disney exec finish's reading johns outline about displaced natives on the planet and is like "this is dreary the company wants a gang teenagers led by a sassy redheaded girl who back talks the deadliest bounty hunter of all time" john complies execs watch what they made him make and cancel the series
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u/platinumrug 8h ago
I actually liked the direction the show went in, but I do absolutely agree that him uniting all the tribes and creating a truly independent planet would've been fucking awesome. They already did that with Nevarro off screen, seeing it happen on screen with Tatooine would've been sick. Give us two more episodes to counteract the two episodes given to Mando 2.5 and we're money.
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u/astromech_dj Rebel 10h ago
As a mega lightsaber nerd, that bit of Ahsoka made me so happy. The Gathering is my favourite arc of TCW.
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u/Indiana_harris 10h ago
Few tweaks I would’ve done.
Have her training scenes at the start show her conversing with Force Ghost Luke when meditating but everyone outside of Leia thinks she’s bonkers.
Everyone thinks she’s just self studying but in reality Luke and Leia are training her night and day with everything they know.
Luke helps guide her on rebuilding a new saber after his was destroyed, leading her to activate it with her eyes closed as it lights up at both ends in a more “light side” take on the epic Mail reveal from TPM.
She uses the double-sided lightsaber throughout the movie.
Kylo when reverting to Ben uses a Blue version of his cross guard lightsaber as the Kyber is purified.
The Knights of Ren are a genuine threat the duo have to face down.
It takes the Dyad of Rey & Kylo together to stop Palpatine as the faint echoes of Force Ghost Luke, Leia and Anakin can be seen standing behind the duo adding their strength.
Both survive the battle but Rey tells the Resistance that “Kylo Ren” died on the planet below. Final scenes show first Ben clad in robes wandering a busy planet and helping the helpless then Rey returning to Luke’s NJO Temple ruins.
No one says “I’m X Skywalker”.
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u/GalacticDaddy005 9h ago
If Ben's lightsaber was purified it actually would've turned white, not back to blue.
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u/smokeypixels Anakin Skywalker 9h ago
This makes me mourn what TROS could have been 😞
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u/TBTrpt3 9h ago
That Rey scene at the end with Palpatine drives me nuts. I wish they'd special edition it and include an army of Force Ghosts behind her. It would look SO MUCH COOLER and be way more symbolic powerful that way.
... there's a lot more I would change, but that simple one would make the scene and ending of the saga less stupid.
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u/ChadVonDoom 10h ago
The writers were really dumb for missing that opportunity. I will never understand why
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u/Revanrenn 10h ago
Because they’re afraid of taking anything that even resembles a risk
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u/ArtisticTraffic5970 10h ago
Well I mean The Acolyte happened. Not that it will happen again though.
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u/raynorelyp 9h ago
Acolyte was such a mixed bag. The action scenes were top tier, the style was great, some of the actors were even good, and some of the characters had good moments… but the main character was so, so bad at acting/written/directed that it was painful. And a lot of the other acting and writing was pretty mediocre at best.
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u/Balthaer 10h ago
The Acolyte was too expensive. I was going to say it wasn’t risky but there were elements that were. I think they were caged risks, though, as they were packaged alongside homogeneous decisions. I think a lot of what failed with that show is that a lot of it didn’t feel earned. The show did not spend the time to show us why we should like X or care for Y, just assumes the audience aligns with the writer’s view that X is good and what happens to Y is important.
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u/TheUlfheddin 10h ago
Well they've been leaning more and more into the idea that sabers get modified by their users overtime.
They could just start off Rey's next movie with her saber now being a staff and that she modified it off screen.
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u/WigginIII 6h ago
And her training montages showed her more comfortable with the staff than a sword.
I don't know how Disney fumbled the bag on this. It would have been a whole new lightsaber design unlike Darth Maul's, rather, it would have been a 3-5 foot staff center with smaller lightsaber blades on each end. The toy potential was huge.
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u/Real_Razzmatazz_3186 11h ago
Or just a staff saber. That would have been cool af and more iconic for the character.
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u/Temassi 10h ago
It would be been such a cool addition to sabers.
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u/fredagsfisk Sith 9h ago
There were a few in Legends, they were pretty cool. Darth Nihl had a nice one, for example.
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u/twec21 11h ago
One of the top 5 biggest fumbles of of the trilogy was not building her own saber for the third one.
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u/in_it_to_lose_it 11h ago edited 10h ago
That would actually have been a narrative parallel from the OT that would be super cool. Not lazily recycled like so much they cribbed from the OT, but more a proper homage, almost an in-universe serendipity aligned with Luke's own saber.
EDIT: Realizing I absolutely should have said "destiny" instead of "serendipity".
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u/twec21 11h ago
Especially after making such a big deal of breaking Luke's in the climax of the second one.
Just...the worst fuckin directing
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u/segwaysegue 10h ago
The lightsaber accidentally symbolizes each director's approach for each movie.
- TFA: It's a nostalgic icon, back from the past! How? Don't worry about it.
- TLJ: Guess what? Your expectations were destroyed! But not all is lost - the pieces remain. Perhaps they'll be rebuilt into something new...
- TROS: Uhh... uhh... actually they fixed it offscreen and everything's back on the rails, and Luke likes being a Jedi again, and Chewbacca got the medal, and the Tantive IV is back! How? Don't worry about it.
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u/twec21 10h ago
.... fuck.
(I can't not nit-pick this though, was it confirmed it was the Tantive IV? The CR-90 was a pretty common ship in the games and expanded universe so I never really minded that terribly)
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u/segwaysegue 10h ago
Yup: https://www.starwars.com/databank/tantive-iv
On its own I don't mind it that much either, it just feels like part of the pattern of the movie bringing back old stuff with little or no modification, just for reference's sake. OT Star Destroyers are back! The Death Star is back, with the same music! Y-wings are back! Luke's X-wing is back, and this time it still works! Ewoks are back!
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u/OfficialGarwood 11h ago
Abrams really missed hard with TROS
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u/Estoye Bodhi Rook 11h ago
You could really feel him hurrying to wrap it all up for the paycheck.
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u/Nicinus Luke Skywalker 10h ago
Unfair, they asked for more time and even to split the movie in two parts but Disney refused. This was right when Iger had resigned and probably wanted to leave with a bang at all cost.
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u/BigBassBone Porg 10h ago
I feel like they could have taken another few months for rewrites and really come up with something special.
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u/litLizard_ 10h ago
They should have just waited with the sequel trilogy in general. Don't rush it, plan it out, like the prequels, but with better visuals, acting and dialogue.
This doesn't give Disney the big money quickly but it would lead to more profit as a good trilogy leaves room for additional content to be produced, therefore more money.
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u/GalakFyarr 10h ago
This doesn't give Disney the big money quickly but it would lead to more profit as a good trilogy leaves room for additional content to be produced, therefore more money.
Money NOW. Not money later. Don't get us wrong though, absolutely money later too. Just money NOW first. All the money. And later ALL the money AGAIN, because later will then be now.
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u/AFresh1984 8h ago
yeah but, I big movie executive, I get bonus now
(I need another yacht for my east coast summer home that matches my west coast yacht but with stupid matching names like ... Atlantic Antics to match my Pacific Fling)
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u/archangelmlg 11h ago
He wasn't the original director and I wouldn't be surprised if Disney didn't want to push the release date, so it was probably a bit of a rush job.
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u/OfficialGarwood 10h ago
Correct. The original Episode IX was called "Duel of the Fates" and was by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow, the later of which was set to direct it. There's even a Wikipedia article about it.
The whole script is out there on the internet if you want to go looking for it. It's an interesting read with how different it was going to be. In that version, Rey gets a double-bladed lightsaber.
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u/Avarus_88 10h ago
What was dumb was this was clearly thought of since her vision of herself as a sith had a double saber…
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u/Evening-Macaroon8503 10h ago
Save old palpatine returning for episode 12, have the big bad be an army of cloned Rey force wielding troopers led by double bladed lightsaber Empress Rey Palpatine, fighting good Rey with her own double lightsaber and an army of force awakened rebels. Make Finn a Jedi also please.
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u/olafk97 10h ago
Better option, a lightsaber pike. It's long enough to be used as a staff, but has an emitter at the top
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u/TotallyJawsome2 10h ago
I think it would've been even cooler if it was pieced together from the remnants of the broken saber from TLJ, Leia's saber that was passed to her, and then combined so that it was different color blades on either end of the staff and the length of the blade could vary to switch between being a staff or a spear. Why introduce a character as scavenger making use of whatever bits and baubles she finds to ultimately not do that exact thing??
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u/Wilwheatonfan87 Battle Droid 10h ago
Honestly the design looks like it may be double bladed.
Remember Maul didnt use both blades til the final fight
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u/Moesko_Island 10h ago
For all we know, it is (or will be). We haven't seen it "in action" yet.
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u/SpukiKitty2 8h ago
Yeah. Maybe it's a saber that can switch from single to double-ended and it contains both of Luke & Leia's crystals.
Newer spinoffs, comics, cartoons, etc. can fix things in the Sequel Trilogy. That's the "Star Wars" way!
It's been done before. I mean, remember how folks used to joke about "the idiot" who put that big, really stupid exhaust port in the first Death Star? Well, it was no longer stupid as of "Rogue One".
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u/Moesko_Island 6h ago
Agreed. I grew up as a Star Wars fan in the interim between the Original and Prequel trilogies, and back then an active "Star Wars" fan meant you were a fan of the books, because that was the only real outlet for new stories back then. As a result, it doesn't really bother me at all when the movies/shows don't land quite right, because on-screen SW feels more like fuel for SW books for me. I know that's a bit backward, but as you said... it's the Star Wars way!
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u/SpukiKitty2 3h ago
Yeah. Granted, I'm not much of a "S.W." book person but I agree. Often it's the supplementary stuff that corrects or flashes out stuff.
An animated series about Rey and Co. would be great. I want to see more of Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, etc. as well as more cuteness from BB-8 and D-0. Also, more old pals like Chewie, Lando, Artoo & Threepio and perhaps fleshing out stuff with Jannah.
I have a headcanon that Jannah is Finn's sister and Lando is their dad.
I can see Finn becoming one of Rey's first pupils.
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u/Quick232 8h ago
Ehh, the way you fight using a staff and the way you would fight using a saber staff are so different that she would be better off with a single blade which she is more familiar with.
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u/Partytimegarrth 11h ago
It's definitely pretty sick....would've loved to have seen it for more than 1 second. Or used for like a practical purpose at all instead of just to smoulder at for dramatic end-of-movie effect. Like everything else in these movies... just wasted potential
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u/Worf2DS9 10h ago
Well, I'm sure we'll see it in action in the Rey movie. I really wanted to get the replica one they made a few years ago (Black Series?), which looked really nice, but the price was ridiculous.
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u/Partytimegarrth 10h ago edited 9h ago
I wont hold my breath on any movies that were announced in this franchise til Im literally sitting in the seat at the theater considering how many have been "permanently delayed" or cancelled.
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u/SpukiKitty2 7h ago
Yeah. I think at this point, any further adventures with Rey, Finn, Poe and the rest of the gang would work best as an animated series. I doubt all of the original actors want to return and a cartoon can just use voice actors that can sound like the original characters.
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u/darkbreak Sith 9h ago
They keep going back and forth with the Rian Johnson trilogy. I think it's in limbo again right now.
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u/Extension-Rabbit3654 8h ago
Lol that movie aint happening, at least not for a while, maybe a cartoon series though
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u/c_m_33 6h ago
There doesn’t need to be a Rey movie. She’s a terrible character who was also utilized poorly. Unfortunately, they can’t go back to what the story was supposed to be after Vaders death because the actors are either dead or to old. They just need to stop. This new Star Wars material has effectively killed it.
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u/Randver_Silvertongue 11h ago
It should've been a lightsaber spear like the Shadow Guards use, since she already uses a staff.
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u/DrVonScott123 Porg 11h ago
I want to think it's modular, that she can easily attach it to a staff
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u/FUCKlNG_SHlT 10h ago edited 1h ago
Canonically, she actually can just shout “Go go saber-staff!” And it will explode like a fucking claymore mine.
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u/Fenris963 10h ago
Gotta find a workbench and some cosmetics first.
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u/Savings-Survey5193 10h ago
I think I've spent more time customising my lightsaber in Jedi: Survivor than actually playing the game.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 11h ago
Absolutely agree with you. I think the opening sequence should have been "acquiring" a crystal from a collector to build her own lightsaber. And that would be the lightsaber used for the full moving instead of the Youngling Slayer 9000 with a metal bandaid.
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u/Atticus104 10h ago
Yeah, I was not a fan that they just "fixed" the skywalker lightsaber after making it's fracture such a big moment. felt cheap
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u/CatInAPottedPlant 10h ago
a lot of the impactful moments in this trilogy felt cheap like that. important moments end up not mattering or get turned into comic relief. the most obvious example is the huge buildup to rey finding luke, bringing him his lightsaber, and then cutting to him just throwing it over his shoulder like a slapstick gag from a marvel movie.
honestly at a certain point it just feels like disrespect towards the audience.
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u/CrossP 10h ago
Most of episode 8 and episode 9 feel like they're making fun of people who liked the OT and PT to me.
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u/BASEDME7O2 4h ago
This is exactly it. They all felt like someone trying to make fun of Star Wars fans and how they will throw money at literally anything with “Star Wars” on it
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u/BASEDME7O2 4h ago
They literally felt like someone was asked to make movies making fun of star wars fans and how they will throw money at literally anything with “Star Wars” slapped on no matter how garbage it is without them realizing.
And that the only rule was that they couldn’t just film a turd in a microwave for 90 mins
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u/Gekokapowco Grievous 7h ago
I'll say it every time, while the moment was comedic, it informed how jaded Luke had become with legacy and responsibility. It taught us about his state of mind as a character so we could watch him change to the end.
Fixing the lightsaber after splitting it in a dramatic and important metaphor just seemed like a spiteful ctrl+z of TLJ's character progression.
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u/Pietru24 10h ago
And also would have reinforced one of the themes of the previous film. Because she's a "nobody", she's not tied to someone else's story and can make her own path. Perfectly symbolized by making her own lightsaber.
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u/spaghettiAstar Jedi 8h ago
It's a shame they were too scared to keep the "Rey nobody" theme, it worked so much better.
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u/BarthRevan 8h ago
If you’re gonna give her a new saber, and her last one was destroyed, why not give her a new lightsaber for the whole ass movie? JJ never fails to dumbfound me.
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u/uninstalling_install 10h ago
No it wasn't.
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u/WallopyJoe 8h ago
Looks super uncomfortable and unwieldy to me. More so than most others. Also looks far more like a definitively single handed weapon, rather than one to properly grip in two places, which is just an odd choice considering the first time we see her in combat it's with an obvious two handed weapon with a fair degree of proficiency.
Also the blade should have been green.
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u/Deadsoup77 1h ago
The rotating switch is so bizarre. That’s either so loose that it could turn on just rubbing against clothing or so tight it’s a pain to turn it off and on. And it’s a poor range of motion for your thumb. They clearly didn’t think it through beyond the one shot for this movie. That said, I do like the chunky spikes around the emitter
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u/Xero2814 7h ago
Also the blade should have been green.
You don't like the pee color?
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u/WallopyJoe 7h ago
My irritation falls squarely on a quote from TFA
I didn't know there was this much green in the galaxy
After escaping Jakku, a planet she was effectively hostage on for most of her life, I don't know why they chose yellow for her, except some daft fan service nonsense or to be different for the sake of being different.
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u/_badwithcomputer 10h ago
But... its YELLOW or Orange or whatever BEST THING EVER
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u/oylesine2019 10h ago
Star wars fans when a character's lightsaber is different from green blue or red:
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u/LucasEraFan 10h ago
I don't like the hilt or the color.
Ridley would have been great as Allana Solo circa 51-51-64 aby, using a purple blade to honor Leia (Carrie wanted purple).
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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 Padme Amidala 11h ago
Completely idiotic choice to not have it until the closing shot of the movie
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u/LucasEraFan 10h ago
Finding an idiotic decision in the ST is like finding anything but Waldo in a "Where's Waldo" book.
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u/Tuckertcs 11h ago
Sure but the fact that she never used it meant it was basically just a few seconds of fan service.
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u/Solid_Mongoose_3269 9h ago
Especially when you zoom in and see she used philips head screws
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u/Stinehart 11h ago
I’ll say what I will about Rey. She’s cool and her lightsaber is sweet, wish she had it for the whole movie.
I like turning gear style ignition switch, and finally getting a yellow blade in a feature film.
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u/Roguewind 8h ago
Needed to mark this as controversial. I mean, I guess everything posted in this sub that’s positive ends up controversial.
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u/AnonyBoiii 8h ago
It is, definitely. But it would’ve been better if it didn’t show up for only 3 seconds. It honestly should’ve been the blade Rey used throughout most of the movie, and then have Luke bestow his green lightsaber down to Rey instead of magicking up Leia’s old lightsaber. Then we could’ve gotten Ben Solo fighting with the green lightsaber on Exegol. I’m going off tangent here, but I stand by what I said.
Also it should’ve been a saber-staff, like her old staff on Jakku. We hadn’t seen a saber-staff in use in the movies since TPM (Not including the Maul cameo in Solo).
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u/TheInebriatedMic 8h ago
Did we really see it "in use" in Solo, though? He just activated it IIRC.
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u/AnonyBoiii 7h ago
Well no, that’s why I said “Not including”. You could say that just activating it means he used it, from a certain point of view
But fortunately I don’t, which is why I said that TPM was really the last time we saw a saber-staff used on the big screen.
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u/Ga11agher 6h ago
Her lightsaber, her look, her attitude, she's gorgeous...I could go on. Rey freaking rules.
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u/ZoroastrianMK 6h ago
Yes. I always loved yellow lightsabers since the first time I saw them on the force unleashed. And the handle it's absolutely baddas. I'd really love to have the saber, but hate the last words and image it's associated with
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u/BigMax 1h ago
I want to see the next movies with her. I don't care that the last ones were flawed. I want to see the "main" movies continued, and she could be great if written well.
Also I admit, when I go to that Star Wars area at Disneyworld, it's cool to see all the little girls have a badass jedi to get excited about. They get SO excited to see the Rey character walking around.
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u/MBChalla 1h ago
Yellow is my absolute favorite lightsaber color. Also, after TFA came out I called it to a friend that she’d end up making a lightsaber out of parts from her staff and it’d be yellow, and I’m very proud of that
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u/Steve_Dankerson 11h ago
Sure, her lightsaber is cool but she still ain't no Skywalker. No matter what she says
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u/heretoforthwith 10h ago
Not a fan of the piss saber, said same of the ones in Acolyte. For me Ahsoka’s pure white pair are the best, followed by Luke’s OG white/blue.
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u/ShokoMiami 10h ago
Wish it was a staff... wish she used it during the movie rather than magically fixing Anakin's lightsaber in between films... wish it was used for more than just toy marketing.
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u/Coltrain47 Battle Droid 10h ago
I agree, Anakin's saber breaking was supposed to be a significant moment, and they just glazed over it.
I also never thought about her using a double bladed saber until reading this comment section, but I totally agree to that, too.
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u/Kolbris 10h ago
For anyone saying it should be double bladed because she already uses a staff, that’s true, however she’d also need ANOTHER crystal (where she gets her yellow one AFAIK isn’t revealed) and would likely need more technology to make it happen/she doesn’t know how to make a double bladed saber. Unless Leia, Luke, or the ancient Jedi texts spoke of double saber the only way she even knows its possibility is from that Sith vision she had of her evil counterpart with that huge swinging one. Her making a single blade (for now) is actually very reasonably normal for her
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u/Serious_Course_3244 Darth Maul 11h ago
It would be more badass if she actually used it