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Another huge point of nitpickery... in Episdoe 3, Obi-Wan wears his lightsaber on his belt using the little frog and cell phone clip all the Jedi have in the prequels, whereas in Episode 4, it hangs from a clip using a D ring attached to the butt of the hilt. Same thing for Anakin's / Luke's.
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Cybernetic repairs or not, Vader's motoric acuity might have suffered enough to call for a relatively robust mounting.
And perhaps Obi-Wan learned something from the umpteen times his weapon fell off? As far as running gags go, this wasn't a bad one...
...Although the whole issue of Jedis and falling was particularly messy in the NT: these guys can drop down fifty meters without harm, or jump up five to ten meters, in effortless defiance of gravity - and then Yoda suddenly is hurt by falling something like fifteen meters from the Senate hall podium? Obi-Wan can tear down pieces of machinery from the ceiling, but not levitate his weapon back to his hand when needed? Windu is assumed killed when he flies out of the window, still moaning IIRC, when he could quite plausibly regain consciousness and control on the way down, evoke his Roadrunner powers, soft-land on a street half a klick down, and meep-meep back to the penthouse to slay the two Sith?
quote:Originally posted by Timo: Cybernetic repairs or not, Vader's motoric acuity might have suffered enough to call for a relatively robust mounting.
I mean the saber that Anakin drops on Lava world that Obi Wan picks up and eventually gives to Luke. In Ep 3, it has a little frog mid-hilt that slides into the cell phone clip the Jedi wear on their belts. In Ep 4, it has a D ring on the butt of the hilt that slides into a different kind of clip.
I'll avoid jokes about needing a robust mounting myself...
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