Thought those are fine reasons and whatnot, I don’t mean to derail the conversation since it’s more on the “Man, what the heck Disney” with the sequel movies.
But still, even before all of this with the lightsaber stuff, it is still a bit silly.
Anakin went through many lightsabers. Luke lost the “skywalker” saber. Some how the saber returns (don’t get me started on the comic) and calls out to someone. And at the end? Rey buries it.
Sorry I really don’t mean to derail things, things have just been handled so … ugh.
That’s why I liked Luke throwing it away at the start of The Last Jedi, it was tossing away the silly reverence of that particular blade being special. Then it also destroyed the lightsaber (setting up Rey to start Episode IX with her own saber she built, similar to Luke at the beginning of Return of the Jedi).
But we needed more ‘member berries…
Yup. Even the original episode 9 script that was scrapped before jj came on had rey build her own double bladed saber out of her staff. I wish they had that for the actual episode 9
We know that her building the saber over the movie was part of JJ and Terrio’s original shooting script at some point, because the concept artists designed out the interior mechanics for that exact reason and outright said that it had been planned to be a recurring aspect.
Once again, an interesting concept sacrificed at the altar of JJ’s attention-deficit editing style, haha.