ST How could Luke's blue lightsaber be in TFA?

Guys let's be honest. The "floating through space" thing ain't happening, and it would be stupid if it did. In all likelihood the Lightsaber landed in one of the exhaust tunnels just like Luke did, however unlike Luke it wasn't ejected out into Bespin's atmosphere. That piece of debris falling from Cloud City isn't the hand and lightsaber, and I don't see how anyone could think it was. Probably some Ugnaught found it, and sold it on the black market where it circulated until Max Von Sydow's character tracked it down to add to his artifact collection.

 

That new "SpoilerBro" guy says that it doesn't fly through space but is inside a container that crashes on the desert planet...

 

Of all the rumors I've heard for Eppy 7, this one about Luke's friggin lightsaber is by far THE WORST.

You mean to tell me that somehow, and I don't care how, but somehow his lightsaber ended up in the hand of his niece?? TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE!! And that she brings it to her dad Han Solo, who recognizes it? Ok, sure. He used it, I get it. But will he really remember it in such detail - 30 years later!! - that he knows it absolutely belongs to Luke?

About 20 years ago I shot my friend's .357 magnum while visiting his cabin. I had it in my hand all of 10 minutes and if I saw it again today, I would have no idea it was the same weapon.

The whole thing is just stupidly implausible.

 

I thought that the rumor about the movie starting with a floating hand and saber had been debunked a while back, and sources said that a saber is what the imperials and/or bad guy are on the sand planet for at the beginning of the movie? I recall a while back someone stating that if anything is seen tumbling through space it would be just a saber, or a saber in someone's ship? The hand rumors have now resurfaced, but I have to wonder if that isn't just people recalling the old rumor and tying more recent bits together with that.

If there is a hand floating through space, one possibility would be that it is Luke's green saber and his cybernetic hand, left as a signal for someone. However, nobody recently has claimed Luke is disfigured or injured, or that he is even being held captive. It seems he's in a self-imposed exile. None of this fits with the hand rumor.

I personally think that a more likely case is that this is simply Anakin's saber, somehow retrieved from Cloud City by the artifact hunter, and that it was gathered due to it's connection to Vader. Since the most recent rumors indicate there is a battle over the sand planet at the beginning of the movie, maybe the artifact hunter or an imperial ship carrying the weapon crashes, which is how Kira finds it, and why the von Sydow cyborg allegedly knows it's there and reports to someone about it?

And also, I cannot recall the specific source, but am 100% certain that Luke's hand and the lightsaber is not what falls out of the hatch on Cloud City. I remember a Q & A session where people involved in the production were asked about that, and they said it's not. If Anakin's saber is the saber in question, then all they need to do is drop a line about how the hunter recovered the future Vader's saber from the bowels of Cloud City, enough said. A tumbling hand in space however is totally lame and hard to plausibly explain given what we know about the story thus-far.

 

All of this makes me wonder, if not all of the previous heard rumours are true, but we did not get the right sequence/connection yet. For example, one of the first rumours was the lightsaber with hand floating through space. Later it was changed and then a space battle should be the beginning of the film. Now we have the lightsaber/hand back, connected with a space battle. Hmmm, so maybe more discarded earlier rumours will return, but are connected with parts we don't know yet.

 

Why can it just be the green saber. I would accept that. The Bespin saber just seems like a huge reach. As for the Debris, It's inconclusive if it was the saber or not. Being that Luke feel down at a different time than his hand and saber. One could draw the conclusion that his hand and saber went down a different tunnel than his. But explaining this plot wise seems like too much. If they found Luke's "Green" Saber I think you could still tell the story and have the "Mystical" saber aspect.

 

If it is indeed the blue saber then they must have an explanation for how it shows up.

I can't see Kasdan or JJ not coming up with something that makes sense.

 

Well, to be fair, you live in a world where that weapon can be common. If you've only known one person in your whole life who had that weapon, and thought that maybe it was the only weapon of it's kind anywhere, you might ask your friend about it later.

 

Please stop talking about the flying space hand.

 

Nah, I just think it's people bringing that rumor back up, not knowing it had ever really gone away.

 

Maybe the hand hooks up with the Queen Alien in space and that is where our new villain comes in?

 

I do like the idea of the saber and perhaps other artifacts in it. You have to think of the SW universe and the current state of things. Having "the saber that dueled Vader" or any other artifact from a Jedi or Sith...who are at this point most likely thought of as a not-so-distant memory and extinct, would be a huge collector's item.

It's a perfect MacGuffin, which is something we all know Lucas loves to use.

 

Maybe Luke's hand is possessed by Darth Plageuis and reeks havoc turning everyone into evil flesh eating zombies that can only be defeated via dismemberment?








Kinda like the greatest horror sequel ever made.

 

Thinking back to the confrontation on Bespin. When Vader sliced of Luke's hand which held the sabre, and they both fell down the inner chasm. Who's to say who exactly was watching that duel? And upon witnessing that moment scrambled to find where in fact the sabre landed? And kept it..just a thought

 

So it's an old English lightsabre Luke was using.

Anyone could have come across it and, as others have noted, it's most likely exchanged hands over the years...like any other collectible we have in our own universe.

 

How could it be the green saber from Jedi? That one blowed up with the Death Star, no? I never Luke retrieve it. Was he wearing it during the Ewok celebration? Someone screen cap this - NOW!

 

Spoilerman reminds me of SuperShadow!!

 

Lobot saw everything. He was linked to the city computer and all it's security camera feeds. Plus, he's a cyborg...

 

Yeah that's right. So it suddenly makes sense that he could be the..

 

Low-res from youtube, it is clearly swinging from his belt @0:39

 

Wasn't there a long-running thread here based on Badass Digest's claim of Luke's severed hand? I don't think we need another damn thread covering the same topic.

 

We aren't talking about his hand.

 

Well damn. I've seen Jedi about 500 times but never noticed that he got his saber back! How shallow of Luke. His dad is dying, the death star is about to explode but BEFORE he rescues his dad he has to go digging around in the throne room to find where he threw his lightsaber. What. A. Jerk.

 

Or he just called it back to him on the way out.

 

How could he call it back if he didn't know where it was? He threw it clear across the room! And if he can call it back so easily without knowing where it is, why not just call it across the galaxy to his little hideout on Ireland? Movie solved, no need to have Episode 7.