Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30994843-20170109010227/@comment-26018514-20170414053449

CABRALFAN27 wrote: .....

In conclusion, @73.Anon.52, you need to take off your Notalgia Glasses, give the Prequels, and, for that matter, the New and Original Trilogies, a rewatch, and this time, pay attention to what's happening, instead of nitpicking all the bad things, and missing out on the good things as a result. 1. I actually liked the prequels, there were things that could have been better, but overall I don't find them terrible enough to justify saying they shouldn't have done them.

2. Wedge Antillies was indeed a badass... but they never rubbed our faces in it or made it as unbelievable as Poe, who literally should have died like 3-5 times in ONE movie,  Hell half the crew in Rogue one had better chances of surviving it and they ALL died. Wedge literally only made the winning shots in just about every winnable battle which made them winnable, while Poe just showed up and was like "I'm here losers, we won this", further, Wedge's more ridiculous stunts were only made in the X-wing series long after his skills were established(after character development), Poe just shows up and evades a force user, then should have died in the escape attempt(without literal armor), but the writers just decided they couldn't part with him, so they plop him in every "here comes the cavalry" moment they could, even when it meant creating bullshit "he just lived" explanations.

3. As I've continually explained, a lightsaber "crossguard" is complete bullshit, because;

A. IT LITERALLY DOES NOT WORK AS A CROSSGUARD DOES.
 * It doesn't "Guard" because the cross section can't protect you from another lightsaber, only the energy blades deflect the opposing blade, meaning that when you guide the opponent's blade there, all you accomplish is destroying your lightsaber and losing a limb.
 * It doesn't provide the leverage a crossguard gives you either because attempting to use it that way results in literally severing your limb.

B. and here is the sticking point about why your "double bladed lightsabers" argument doesn't work... they actually Do work... you can use 2 blades to defend yourself from 2 directions, what you cannot do is use the second and third crossguard blades offensively or defensively, because when used offensively, the third blade is at an angle to kill the user, and defensively it has the same problem(or it could only cut off a limb... who needs those anyways?), and while the double bladed sabers blade has similar issues, it also has the range you need to pull off a surprise attack with the other blade... the force user is 10x better off with a single crossguard blade he can then actually use.

C. lightsaber crystal mechanisms are delicate and can explode if damage is done to the assembly, meaning the extra blades bot increase the risk and draw attention to the weakpoint, not to mention they exist to functionally cause this to occur, sliding the opponents blade into a minor explosive you have in a deathgrip.