Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30994843-20170109010227/@comment-26018514-20170205160004

Nightmarrionette wrote:

Episode 1 was far from the best. In fact the Star Wars movie that is objectively the best movie is probably The Empire Strikes Back. The lightsaber crossguard, despite it realistically burning Kylo's hand off, has 2 advantages over a normal lightsaber. 1. It has an extra combat advantage as it can use the mini blades for offense as well as the main blade. If I remember he actually does this against Finn in their lightsaber duel. 2. It actually helps prevent something that is oh so common iin that universe, hands getting chopped of. if someone comes to chop of Kylo's hand they still have another lightsaber blade to get through. And that stopping the blaster bot scene was actually pretty awesome. I have no fucking clue what you are even talking about with Boba Fett. What does Boba Fett have to do with your comparison? Also I can just say 1 word that pretty much destroys all of Episode 1's credibility.

Mitichlorians. 1. The best PREQUEL, I wasn't comparing original trilogy

2. A crossguard is not actually advantageous in almost any way, first off, it's something weaker than the energy blade, which can kill along its entire length, secondly it makes the physical handle profile bigger, which if you didn't know is the part of the lightsaber that can EXPLODE when damaged... the only advantage is in a duel against something like another lightsaber user.... and Ben already supposedly wiped out all but one such person... and that is only if said person doesn't have supernatural reflexes and eyes to tell them it is dangerous... and because the crossguard blades are directly opposite one another a swordsman cannot leverage one for a killing stroke without risking his own life.

3. Fett was brought up because the rebel pilot in 7 has just as much BS survivability as him... he was practically a "Chuck Norris" meme, except it made Boba a relentless hunter, while this new guy just comes off as a terrible Gary-stu. 4. You mean Midi-chlorians... which were a thing BEFORE the prequels. I give credit where credit is due, the only real bullshit in episode one was Jar-Jar, and considering the new Villain is almost worse than that I consider that a wash, while the terrible stu-ness of All 3 of the other new main cast members renders the rest of the movie bad even forgiving the other issues like Plot holes and the new villain replacing 3+ awesome characters from the EU by his simple existence.