How The Phantom Menace’s Epic Lightsaber Fight Came Together For that, those lightsabers come in last. But every other indication we’ve gotten of the Jedi’s combat prowess shows them to be fearsome fighting machines - and now suddenly they’re being taken out by a handful of blasters? (And don’t give me that “They were betrayed by the troops they were commanding” line the Jedi had every reason to distrust the clone troopers from the get-go.) The most plausible explanation is that their lightsabers all spontaneously failed them at the crucial moment. Is it blaming the victim to suggest that a few more Jedi should have been able to survive Order 66? Maybe a little bit. Every Lightsaber Held by a Jedi at the End of Revenge of the Sith Those who disagree should consider our new reader re-rankings below as their chance to challenge us to a duel.ġ00-17. Cue up “Duel of the Fates,” and meet us below the jump. But of all the lightsabers we’ve seen in Star Wars so far, which one is the best? To answer that question requires an elegant listicle, for a civilized age. For the Jedi, a lightsaber is a symbol of their innate exceptionalism for Luke, it’s a connection to his father for the Sith, it’s one more way to assert their dominance over the weak. Think of the otherworldly glow, the distinctive hum, the (illogical, but who cares?) weight of the blade. Star Wars did not invent the concept of a magic blade, or even a laser sword - those pop up in Asimov’s Lucky Starr series, among others - but as with many of the series’ pulp influences, George Lucas refined and reduced them to their essential elements, creating the series’ ultimate addition to the pop-culture canon. Thank you to all of the helpful readers who told us, often politely, which ones we had forgotten.
GOOD LIGHTSABER FORMS TO GO TOGETHER TV
We first updated it to reflect the lightsabers of The Force Awakens, and now, to celebrate the arrival of The Last Jedi, we have updated it again to included the best lightsabers from the recent Star Wars TV series. This post was originally published in December 2015, as part of Vulture’s Star Wars Countdown. Here’s Star Wars With Entirely Different Audio
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