I leave you guys alone for 24 hours and .... lol
Ok. I think it's time to weight in with my thoughts about how this is going to take place, so that for the most part we can get passed all the wonder of how the red saber from this movie becomes blue in ANH, and how it needs (or does not need) to be explained.
I'm sure this will be debated back and forth still and thats fine. But I prefer a more focused debate. So here's the plan after alittle bit of background. This was the point covered earlier in the thread, and that's the background of the actual saber Luke gets from Obi in ANH.
Using Bingowings points, cause this is the mind set I was in when I decided to go this route.
Bingowings
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.
So the problem is to either go back and make the weapon seem more majestic (impossible).
Or have this weapon removed totaly after Anakin turns to the dark side. (possible, allthough alot of fans will be upset. Seeing as Luke no longer recieves his fathers saber).
So then I watch ANH and ESB. the 2 movies featuring Luke and all the great things he did with his fathers saber.
Let me know if I'm missing anything, seriously.
ANH: recieves the saber from Obi.
1 scene of him training with it.
Nothing else far as I recall.
ESB: Luke uses the saber to cut a hole in the bottom of an AT-AT
Luke uses the saber inside the cave slicing off the arm of a Wampa
Luke uses the saber inside the cave slicing off the head of a vision of Vader.
Faces Vader for the first time, hand is sliced off and Luke looses his fathers saber.
Nothing else far as I recall.
And if i missed something, please remind me.
After taking all of this into consideration. I wonder if the Saber given to Luke really needs to be his fathers? Does it change anything?
Other than Obi lying too Luke one less time about his father.
I have edited the scene of Luke getting the lightsaber from Obi so that there's no mention that its his fathers. It's just a lightsaber.
So now I need to hear how many people think this is movie breaking, And how many people are cool with this?