Excellent.
I'm big on continuity and consistency. It is, I feel, even more important for a fictional setting than a real one. The more internal consistency, the more a fictional universe follows its own internal logic and rules, the more real it will feel, and the more the audience can let themselves get invested.
I do not like the newer lightsaber props they've been using in the films and series. I'd much prefer they use fluorescent-painted steel rebar and composite the blade in in post. The OT 'sabers didn't light up a room, and the ones we got after that shouldn't either. That was one of the exotic properties of lightsabers that made them subconsciously interesting. They were intensely bright, but did not illuminate. Virtual photons or other short-lived exotic particles have been proposed that answer that. These more recent props with their fat, lit-up blades just look
bad to my OT-trained eye. All the hundreds of times I watched those movies on VHS and laser disc conditioned me to how lightsabers "should" look and behave.
One of the things I like about Rebels is how slender the lightsaber blades are, albeit slightly exaggerated the
other direction. It still felt more like watching Luke ignite his father's lightsaber in Ben Kenobi's hut for the first time than Rey igniting that same 'saber in TFA. At least an
attempt to recreate the look of the narrow core and palely-colored nimbus surrounding it, and the erratic flicker caused by the spinning triangular pole with its two sides coated in movie-screen material.
I like the spaceships and want my own
Millennium Falcon and the Force is something I've tried to use since I was small, but what viscerally pulls my attention and fascination like a moth to a porch light are lightsabers and blasters. Those, when done right, do more to sell me on something as Star Wars than most other trappings. And when they are done
poorly, it just looks like a well-meaning but ultimately half-assed fan film.
