Bingowings said:

With the PT as it currently stands I don't think the audience will have any connection to that object.

He didn't have a saber in TPM.

He used one to kill kids in AOTC and it was chopped in half.

He used one to kill kids in ROTS and dropped it when his legs came off.

Another 'epic fail' for Lucas.

It's hardly Excalibur and is should have been.

Well the one in ROTS still killed Count Dooku, ended the Clone Wars, was at the throat of the Emperor himself, changed the fate of the galaxy itself...