So... we went from "OW! These grips hurt!" from like every actor who's swung a GRAFLEX lightsaber, so much so that a foam handled stunt had to be created, to:
"Hey! I've got a brilliant idea on how to hang the GRAFLEX on a belt all by itself! Let's put a sharp-pointed metal grip strip on one side and it can slide over the belt like a pocket knife clip!"
STUPID!
I can't believe they actually Band-Aided the GRAFLEX, if that's what we're seeing and it's not a homage build by Rey, I'm beside myself with the lack of imagination in not only the prop department, but the entire team responsible for this storyline. They should be as ashamed of themselves as Rian should be for tearing the GRAFLEX in half in the first place.
Like there's not a single shard of crystal left in the Star Wars galaxy for a Force user to create a new lightsaber with. Especially not in a BIG OLE DEATH STAR that used them to create the ultimate power in the universe! No, of course there wouldn't be even one little bitty bit of a crystal left there or even a bit of crystal that went flying into Yavin or Endor. Nor in a container headed to build the next even bigger Death Star (you know there was one out there!
). Looks like Rey already has the repaired GRAFLEX on her hip when they see it, so, who knows why they're there, whereever there is. And NOONE EVER made a synthetic crystal. NOPE!
With the myriad of unique lightsabers created by fans over the last 42 years, how could those involved with creating Episode IX not have drawn inspiration from them and given Rey a lightsaber of her own. They make her out to be SO wonderful, yet all she can come up with is a Band-Aided GRAFLEX.
WEAK!
Star Wars movies are dead. Long Live the Expanded Universe. Off to read a book written when Star Wars meant something to those that wrote it.
