If it's a stunt saber with some kind of functioning blade it likely related to that.
Didn't we read that sabers with light and sound effects were being used in set to heighten the sense of realism for the actors?
Didn't we read that sabers with light and sound effects were being used in set to heighten the sense of realism for the actors?
Lazy continuity just doesn't jibe with me.:unsure
You're seriously this bent out of shape about a stunt prop not 100% matching the hero? Better not watch any of the prior Star Wars movies, then! Your head will explode.
As for why an antenna -- we don't know what they're doing, but it must require either sending a signal to or receiving a signal from the LED bladed stunt. I was mulling over this very issue with a friend the other day, and we agreed there's a good possibility that the nickel-played brass of the Graflex body could act as a Faraday cage that would interfere with RF signals. Hence the need to drill a hole in it and have an antenna sticking out. It's the same reason that, say, the iPod Touch has a plastic opening on the all-metal back so that WiFi signals can get in and out.
The eyes have it? So we've gone from Rey is totally a Clan member and not a Skywalker to "damn straight shes a Skywalker!".
Yeah, I can't help you with that but I hope you find peace...
I think you're reading into this a bit. There wasn't anything in that trailer to intimate that she's a Skywalker. The fact that Maz is saying that she's lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people--and that she knows your eyes--doesn't say anything like "I know you're a Skywalker". That may be what you want it to mean, and so it seems that way to you. But it's far from a confirmation of such... that dialog could be referring to lots of things. It may mean that in her long life she has seen "that look" in others' eyes before (whatever that may be) perhaps a wounded look, a wanderer's look, the look of a Force User, etc... who knows. But that little snippet is not a confirmation of lineage at all.
Yes we did, but I'm still not seeing how any of those things would require an inch long antennae, wire, clip, or anything at all would need to be added to a GRAFLEX.
Other than the gap at the emitter, he could be using a MR Luke ESB, & get both sound & light without any additional greeblies.
There's also the distance of the grips from the end of the saber. They're not consistent with the shot of the one handed to Leia.
I'm really not trying to argue here, It's just that I've not heard any satisfactory answer for the discrepancies, unless it's just bad movie making, & if they went so far as to insist on authentic GRAFLEXes when they could have had replicas...
Lazy continuity just doesn't jibe with me.:unsure
Can all saber bollox move back to the saber bollox thread please, let's not make every thread on the Rpf about saber bollox!!
But without it, there'd be no RPF.
I think you're reading into this a bit. There wasn't anything in that trailer to intimate that she's a Skywalker. The fact that Maz is saying that she's lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people--and that she knows your eyes--doesn't say anything like "I know you're a Skywalker". That may be what you want it to mean, and so it seems that way to you. But it's far from a confirmation of such... that dialog could be referring to lots of things. It may mean that in her long life she has seen "that look" in others' eyes before (whatever that may be) perhaps a wounded look, a wanderer's look, the look of a Force User, etc... who knows. But that little snippet is not a confirmation of lineage at all.