ST Episode 7 Plot Detail(?) from BadAss Digest: UPDATED - "the lightsaber". Talk to the hand, hand!

Cooler because implausible? Sure, good one Da7e.

 

Things are certainly seeming like there's some inferences going on by the leakers as to what the info they are given means. Perhaps the sources only know little pieces of info, and it's all conjecture on the leakers interpretation of this info

 

maybe this part of what they saw and they didn't know it was old.

 

The picture has been around for a while (on the internet - the picture itself is way old). It was already posted on this thread several days ago.

 

Sure, but that means that someone did in fact either got access to the LFL archives or the rumor itself actually did come from someone working for LFL.
Otherwise how could just some random guy have access to this kind of stuff and even go as far as to make a speculation based solely on a very random (at first) image ?

 

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I'm inclined to agree with you. One thing though: if the finding of the lightsaber is supposed to be a "passing of the torch" sort of thing, then they obviously aren't going to give it back to Luke. So if it's Luke's saber, what saber is Luke going to use?

 

It would be interesting for Luke's lightsaber to be passed to the next gen.
Just like Luke used his father's lightsaber, the next main will use Luke's. Quite a nice parallel.

 

Pretty sure someone posted that very pic earlier on this thread.

EDIT: Has someone notified Child of Winds? I'm sure she'll be very relieved to hear of this latest development.

 

if they use anakin's/luke's saber as a catalyst for a new jedi i think that will be cool but where does it come from? how?

 

Except jedi don't do this. Anakins was passed on because Anakin was defeated and Obiwan took it. If it was Luke's current one they'd need to return it to him,
if they do and he has a new one, are we gonna see him say, "keep it, i got a new one"??

 

I've been posting the same pic since the rumour break to show that LFL have previous when it comes to severed hands

 

already stated that it's easy. Ugnaught has it on the planet, trading items, like the jawas, he has the lighsaber - obviously an ugnaught found it on bespin and there it is

 

I think we're taking the symbolism too literally. Or at least stretching out into the plot too much.

Let's say Boyega or Ridley are the "new hope." Them finding and using the saber indicates their new status as hero or heroine to the audience.

They might in fact give it back to Luke when they meet him. New Jedi are supposed to build their own anyway. It's a rite of passage.

If Luke is missing his saber, I can only conclude he's either prisoner and hence doesn't need it. Or just doesn't need it: since he's a Master, like Yoda, he should be pretty tough even without a saber. But he could always build a new one if necessary -- or take one from one of the villains.

But even if JB or DR give the saber back to Luke, that doesn't take away the symbolism of them using it for a while.

 

Don't you think it's rather massively coincidental that our heroes might find Luke's old saber and within a day be dragged off on an unrelated quest to find him?

 

yeah but bespin is a gas giant. it fell into the core of planet and was destroyed presumably.

 

Do we have any idea what is at the core of Bespin? Could be a rocky core. We really don't know.


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I see, but it is interesting that they chose to show this image. Right now. Today. After everything that's happened.

Yes, but the previous trilogies were all about symmetries. So we may expect a similar way of the previous hero's lightsaber being passed to the next gen.
Your scenario could work OR Luke dies (and thus has no need for a lightsaber) OR he doesn't have a way to hold lightsaber anymore (rumors, rumors, rumors...) OR he feels his lightsaber will be put to better use by the next gen.
There are many possibilities this could work.

 

Yes but the idea that Luke is in peril came from the severed hand thing. Since there is no severed hand, and there are other reasons that Luke is so called "missing" than this kind of puts a damper on Luke is in peril we must find him rumors. For example, if there's no hand and it's Lukes lightsaber and Luke has been gone for some time, why would it suddenly spur action - they have no idea when Luke lost it so he might be dead.

I just don't see the plot being this at all, as it doesn't bring all the characters on board. And it's less likely that it's Lukes "current" lightsaber

 

doesn't find it on the planet, finds it in the bowels of the city, meaning it didn't fall to the planet. Really no one is going to be thinking about this, especially if you have an ugnaught in possession. The inference is clear and won't be like, hey wait a minute, can you explain exactly how you found this?

 

Yes, it could still serve as a minor plot point. But probably mainly symbolic.

This is what I was saying yesterday -- there's no need for the saber to create a motivation for every character or even every plot point.

 

some gas giant's have a liquid metal core some have none i believe. who's going on a treasure hunt at a planet core?

 

So you think the saber arrives on exactly the same day that an unrelated quest to find that saber's owner begins?

 

Thank you.

If the saber fell into the gas giant, then it is gone. It's full of poisonous gas! Except Cloud City.