greedo said:

buddy-x-wing said:

maybe the fact that it is also the only time in the saga we see a lightsaber retracting from that close an angle that it looks a little strange?

This could be it.

Yeah, I think that's probably it, too. Ady said that the saber retraction is within the normal range of frames (I think he said it was between 4 and 8 or something like that), but I think what's weirding some people out is that that's the typical number of frames for us to see the WHOLE saber retract, whereas this shot is a close-up and we're only seeing a small part of the blade. As such, the retraction appears slower.