Yeah, I guess it was the people with them doing dumb things, not the sabers…
But I didn’t remember the absorbing thing, so I’ll stand by my original statement. Even if that is the only dumb thing they do, it’s plenty.Obi-Wan used it to absorb Dooku’s Force Lightning in AOTC.
That scene is much worse than Mace doing it in ROTS in my opinion. He just shrugs it off like it’s a goofy toy, when last time we saw it, the most powerful Dark Sider in the galaxy was using it to dismantle two of the (arguably) most powerful Jedi ever.