Luke is swinging a lightsaber into dozens of people but none of them receive visible injuries
Come on, these are supposed to be kid friendly movies.
Before ROTJ we’d only ever seen a Jedi use his Saber against people once before and yes we saw a severed limb on the floor. That was pretty extreme and borderline for a kids film but limbs flying everywhere as Luke hacks Jabba’s minions left, right and center would be a clear R-rating dude. Of course, Ben Burtt does a lot with his soundfx in the sail barge scene with sounds of flesh being sliced/burned, screams from the dying, guts being sliced open etc.
Because there are no “visible injuries” in the shower scene in Psycho, does that make it not violent?
None of this is valid in reference to the point, which is that when you hit someone with a lightsaber, it shouldn’t bonk off them like a bat and push them into the pit. It should slash or slice them. We don’t need to see the gore or violence, but we need to avoid seeing a lightsaber act like something other than a lightsaber.