So the mystery surrounding why one of the most iconic props in the Star Wars franchise is put on the same level of importance as to why C-3PO has a red arm? If it's not going to be explained in the movie, that's going to be extremely lazy writing. .
Forgive me for asking but did we ever get an explanation during ANH of why 3PO's leg was silver, or where Ben got his saber? Or where the Tantive had just flown from, or where Chewbacca gets his Wookie bag's made? I'm coming at this from a very confused place after reading your post, By your reckoning isn't ANH the laziest film of the complete series then?
Why all of a sudden do we have to sit through hours of pointless screen time to tell pointless story sub plots that have no real relevance to the story ? I really don't want to see on the big screen 60 mins of prop backstory and 75min of actual story. If they did add all these things it would be so bad and for no reason other than fear of the suicide rate going up by 15% maybe more???
Just think how much better ANH would've been if we sat through 1 hour of how Han had to fight off hundreds of aliens to steal a training remote that served no real purpose for him?
Lets just assume the Saber mades its way to its new home via somebody finding it and getting rid of it...why does it have to be an explained mystery or "none mystery plot point".......why stop there?? They've likely just enough time to do some pick up shots down at Pinewood of the 20 min scene of Kylo buying Vaders burnt helmet on Space eBay, the tension in that last 30 secs of bidding would be epic!!!!
This is meant with a sense of humour to help me cope with what I consider some very bizarre ramblings !!!
And I just won't sleep till I hear people say they need to know why the Rebel alliance decided to change the design of the X-wings, theres another 20 mins screen time wasted, or gained, from "a certain pint of view!!!"
How lazy of the ESB team to not tell us if the rebels found the big cave and made it a hanger or if it was built by them, I mean c'mon they just happened upon a big cave to hide in and they expect us to just except it? Like that? no explanation? Tut tut
I used to like that film till now!!!!!