The last jedi council created mkre darksiders then all of history put together. They made them warriors as children or as monks who hated violence, so what did they expect. They were supposed to protect and serve the people of the republic, not lead them to battle. That was a major change that had never happened before that, they had war with sith , and mandalorains , but the mandalorains were attacking, the jedi defended, this war the jedi were trained for war , given military titles and even the padawans and youngling were training for war, not defense , against everything they were supposed to do. The jedi took youngling from family's due to.the fact they could accidentally hurt themselves or others. They didn't have to become jedi, that was made cannon later, at first ut was to protect them amd those around them, and they originally could learn tk control it enough to be safe and go home, but that was changed for some reason, the original novels and books , they didn't kidnap kids forever because they had the force , they were trained for enough co trol to not hurt people and sent home if they wished to be.
Jedi council: makes the order focused on politics, and therefore war. Also jedi council: It’s making me upset you are updating your weapon to survive the wars we put you in.
Politics and war aren't synonyms. They are related, but they definitely aren't the same. Finding a diplomatic ending, which is a type of politics, is often one of the many responsibilities of Jedi in the Order. Don't get it twisted. Stop trying to dress the Order in a way that helps you throw rocks. That just telegraphs how little you actually know about, in this case, Yoda's Order.
The Jedi Order had an obligation to the Republic. They didn't choose to go to war. They were forced to. And so yes, they were upset at what the war did to their Order and what sacrifices it increasingly demanded.
@@Pun116 the order pre modern republic, was seperate, in the same sense of church and state, with the jedi only acting as mediators between sides or to fight dark siders, modern republic jedi, primarily yoda's jedi order, was more politicians than mediators, going so far as to join a completely legal civil war, have 0 military training but accept general officer posts, constantly resorting to violence, all while hee hawing over actually just doing the whole war thing. It's why theres rarely ever been a jedi leading a war that doesn't either lose, or fall to the dark side, because to actually be good at war, you can't be a hippy.
In the Old Republic, it was said that the Jedi were more individualistic. Their connections to the force was also specific to them as individuals. That could have also applied to the design of their lightsabers too. Anakin constructed a saber that was right for him. It suited both his battle style and personal preferences.
Well that's pretty much my feeling about Whole of Star Wars: the farther your stray from the Skywalker story the better it got, the old Republic being my favorite part
Anakin Skywalker: takes a deep breath The Jedi High Council: 'We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to breathing'
-Take a seat, young Skywalker. -* Takes a seat. * -We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to sitting.
The Order's concern for overattachment is completely valid. They only have themselves to blame for teaching Anakin when they shouldn't have. Rather, the Order should blame the atrocious writing that made them so inconsistent. Literally no reason to teach Anakin after Qui-Gon was slain, but they did anyways. Unbelievable.
Imagine how powerful and strong in the light, Anakin Skywalker would be, had the council recieved him warmly, and helped him work through his traumas. Everytime another video comes out, the more i hate the Jedi haha
Old grown ass man will always be like this. They had to, bc of fear, remember what Palpatine said, A person with power will be most afraid of losing it.
Honestly I’m perplexed that the alternative was even an option for the Jedi, who supposedly didn’t trouble themselves with worldly cares. How a lightsaber looks should be far less important than how it works.
@GGBlaster ... but "Jedi are peacekeepers" ... often times merely showing the laser-sword was enough to 'get what you wanted" ... you didn't even need to ignite the blade!
The purpose of a weapon is combat. Designing one to perfectly reflect it's purpose is a fairly logical thing to do. The Jedi were the weird ones for trying to turn a weapon into a symbol of peace.
well when you dedicate yourself to light, and want to protect life, youre view on using weapons can change drastically. essentially leading to the jedi (in this case) seeking answers from the force moreso then focusing on protection (wether it being themselves or others)
It honestly makes sense to have a weapon that reflects the way you are going to use it, like Dooku (and his actor), I am a trained fencer with a rapier. I also do competitive LED Saber combat with TSL. My hilt for that purpose is designed to be used like I use a rapier. A slightly smaller diameter and hilt length that allows me to fight better with a single hand. If I remember my Jedi Lore correctly, the ancient Jedi were of the same notion that Anakin was in designing a lightsaber that was meant for the battlefield and specifically dueling against another lightsaber wielder. Anakin was going back to earlier Jedi roots when the galaxy was more violent that The Council would as soon forget.
It's yet another indictment against the Jedi Council of how arrogant they had grown in their position as the "keepers of peace". No Sith? No Problems. But build a lightsaber with the intention to wage battle? Oh, how scandalous
Yes it is funny how when faced with a similar problem to solve so many great minds come up with very similar solutions even when seperated by vast distances with no interaction and super slow communication. We call this parallee development. Also outside of ideology almost everyone enjoys a logical sound critical and diserning application of logic and sceince to solving problems. When people restrict the solutions you can come up with it is always about power and control!
So, Anakin's new lightsaber was basically a Broadsword or Bastard Sword (Wide blade with hand and half grip). I know they have been mentioned but I would like to see a Jedi or Sith with a Light Rapier and a Master of Form 2, like Dooku.
We’ve actually sorta got that already with dooku! Christopher lee was a trained fencer and his curved hilt was to match and bring out his style :) to your point, it would be cool to see a genuine lightsaber rapier, thin blade, maybe even the full basket hilt? Could be sweet
Jedi: makes child a soldier and sends him to war Child: makes his laser sword more effective at war and protecting himself from it Jedi: absolute blasphemy!
Anakin: "I built a lightsaber and didn't add any extra crap because we're at war right now, and I need one fast. Also, my arm got cut off, so it's bigger to fit my prosthetic better. I'm the chosen one and will probably have to fight Count Dooku again. Winning that fight would be beneficial to literally EVERYONE on our side, so I made adjustments to help me do that." Council: *upset jedi noises and continued disapproval*
It Is Rather Tragic:: Anakin (and his saber) was 'exactly what was needed' to combat Dooku and the Sith ... ... yet it was those very things that destroyed the Jedi Order!
the lightsaber Anakin used in his first duel with Dooku wasn’t even his own (neither was Obi Wan’s). It was a spare that another jedi threw to him therefore didnt fully fit his combat style.
@@gunguntrio1247 i mean you wouldn’t use another person’s glasses because it wasn’t made for you right? That said, I wonder how much better (if even slightly) Anakin would have done against Dooku if he still had his lightsaber. Maybe enough to keep his hand?
@@DSdemon767Honestly, he probably would have went in there even cockier if you can imagine that. He was naturally talented at things and because of that, he didn't put in as much effort in studying and training. This defeat helped humble him and to start taking some things more serious and with that came the construction of said lightsaber. Even more interesting when you consider the Dooku duel in episode 3 how in the beginning both he and Obi-Wan kept "stumbling" over each other to give Dooku a false sense of superiority and lull him into making mistakes. Anakin really grew in that time which I'm fully aware that I went completely off base with this comment but here we are. Anakin needed his defeat by Dooku to force him to grow. And yet, they still never learned to carry a spare saber on them afterwards.
@@gunguntrio1247 My guess they only have one lightsaber at a time to push the idea that they have to take really good care of it. And then the Clone Wars happened. imagine the coversation: Obi Wan: This weapon is your life Anakin: Can I make a spare? Obi Wan: Do you have a spare life?
This video is awesome. Wow I never knew that. I didn’t know that Anakin’s lightsaber was built for conquest and for attacks. I believe it was very interesting that Anakin’s duel on Geonosis changed him.
i feel that Luke in legends is far more simular to the idea that Yoda and the rest of the hige council had of the chosen one. when needed Luke will fight but he also studys the force, learn new technices etc.
For all the atrocities Vader committed with that saber during Order 66 before losing it to Obi-Wan, you'd think it'd be imbued with the dark side and corrupt anyone who uses it. I wonder if there are any references to Obi-Wan purifying it before giving it to Luke.
A weapon is simply a tool to do things, while the saber was used for evil the saber itself was created by a jedi and then eventually returned to a Jedi as well, unlike a proper sith Krystal which is bled with anger and hate and dark side energy which would be a more corrupt blade born out of malice although we've never seen a sith blade corrupt others for using it, as there are numerous instances of Jedi using red sabers and being just fine with it (if you know, you know)
@@memlordnord567 however in the old republic there have been accounts of squads whether scavengers or ones who hunt artifacts some artifacts are sith lightsabers with soooooooooooooo much power within them still after the sith long since dead corrupted many if not all of those who went into the siths tomb in search of artifacts.
Vader never bled his original Saber because he was still at that point holding onto the little bit of light he had left. If he had bled that saved it probably would've done exactly what you said.
@@GriffenSpadeIsBack those were also tools made with sith alchemy, which is like, mispronounce one thing during your spell and summon a cthulu tentacle to rip you apart, vs vader who functionally never touched alchemy barring when he worked with mask dude that possessed someone in the comics.
TSW, this video has a critical error. In Attack of the Clones, when Anakin's lightsaber is crushed in the fabrication press in the Geonosis Droid Factory, he says, "Not again. Obi Wan's gonna kill me.", which implies that Anakin'd had a lightsaber destroyed before, meaning that the lightsaber which he constructs going into the Clone Wars is at least his third lightsaber.
Or a fourth. Perhaps, even a fifth. My, this is but another prime example on humanity's pre-established tendency of following the overall mass collective thought as opposed to logically checking the actual facts themselves - as clearly proven in what we popularly know as "The Mandela effect" social phenomena. You could argue that this comment is yet another proof of this inherent, fascinating dichotom-
No one ever seems to note how Anakin's hilt actually looked very much like Yoda's. The grip, the shrouded emitter, all of it. So it wasn't exactly some drastically different design. All I'm saying
Ahsoka's sabers share a lot of DNA with Anakin's and Obi-Wan's hilts. She has noticeably thinner hilts than both of her seniors-likely to accommodate her smaller hands. She's 14 at the turn of the Clone Wars and much smaller than Anakin. She also doesn't have ribs on any of her hilts. When I watch her fight against Grievous and other opponents, she seems to prioritize grace/agility (like Obi-Wan) instead of overpowering strikes (like Anakin). I suppose that lack of power is supplemented by her shoto saber (maybe more blades = more power?). The drastic difference between her Clone Wars hilts and Post-Republic hilts is more intriguing. They look more ceremonial than her Clone Wars hilts-although still plain. Maybe a sign of increased maturity as a servant of the Force. During Rebels, there were few bladed combatants that could match her skills with the blade. Dooku, Grievous, Ventress, Oppress, Maul, and maybe Vizsla all had a good leg up on her during the first half of the Clone Wars. During Rebels, the majority threat were Inquisitors who were largely below her skill. The majority inferior opponents meant less need for a functional design. The curved hilts that she uses in Rebels and onwards might signal further improvement of her saber skills. I know Dooku favored the curved hilt for its unpredictability and encouraged Ventress to use similar hilts (less curved though). So perhaps Ahsoka took what she learned from fighting those two and incorporated it into her design.
@@Evening-Sky It always seemed to me that she preferred not to use the lightsaber when there were other ways to deal with a threat, so her later hilt design makes sense. Plus, after breaking away from the order, she likely wasn't as likely to want to show the mark of a Jedi through use of the lightsaber.
@@Squidbush8563 Absolutely! I haven't noticed her reluctance to fight until now. It is painfully clear how her teenage years as a Commander in the Clone Wars left a bad taste in her mouth for combat (maybe even hate combat). She went without a lightsaber for years and seemed to do just fine which further reinforces the high likelihood that she disliked bearing the mark of a Jedi.
@@Evening-Sky i haven't actually finished clone wars myself yet, so i have no firsthand knowledge, but from what i understand she had to fight a war with a group of soldiers, who eventually were probably something akin to friends or even family, and then at the end they were all forced to turn against her. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to disdain violence after that.
@@Kataclysm113 Agreed. It is more than reasonable to dislike violence after being a soldier in a 4-year war. Ahsoka was pretty mature at digesting the emotion losses (even great ones) from a young age, but I don't think her maturity dulled the sense of "oh this war is terribly wrong".
@@sabrewolf4129 Yes, but it resembled the lightsaber of a jedi. Of his pre darkside fall. I always assumed he would want it to look different so as not to remind him.
@@sabrewolf4129 Yes it is. While your ability to point out the obvious is astute, you have forgotten one thing. People will obviously take notice of the worlds that interest them and think and wonder about it. That is who we are.
Seriously, they withheld information from Anakin, telling him that he's not ready So since he can't expand his mind, he expands his ability for combat, this also bothers them. I'm sure if he sat around doing nothing, they'd call him lazy too. The old Jedi form 1000 years ago would have been proud. You can't have peace without being ready for war. They were even more arrogant than the Sith and scared too.
Anakin is in some ways like an echo of Dooku in this regard. Both felt out of place among the jedi, both were giant lightsaber nerds who built there own non-traditional lightsabers and became obsessed with becoming the best duelists they could be, even to the point of neglecting their more force-focused training, something which irritated both Palpatine and Yoda regarding both men since Yoda and Palpatine believed they should've focused more on mastering their use of the force. I swear every time Dooku and Skywalker crossed blades, it almost became a goddam pissing contest of who could lightsaber better... well in the end Anakin won that game.
When **isn't** the Jedi Council throwing a hissy fit over something? They didn't approve of Dooku's lightsaber, either. Seems to me like if you're pissing off the Jedi Council, you're doing something right.
Interestingly though Blue/Green were the colors of guardians and consulars, Anakin was probably more in line with the Jedi Sentinels which also included many of the orders best tinkers and artisans. Though at the time of the clone wars in legends the crystals themselves created the blades colors and Ilum crystals could only produce blue/green. Also another interesting fact which disney has tried to bury is that in episode 1 obi-wans crystal was forged and not found. And the old sith often manufactured their own crystals using the dark side not just by bleeding but much of that knowledge died or was lost at the begining of the rule of 2.
They worried because they knew I was better than them. They held me back. Yoda, Obi-wan, Master Windu...they feared and underestimated my power. They paid the price!
Now I'm wondering what a lightsaber geared towards All 7 forms would look like. If it's too thick, it's bad for defense; too thin, no offence. Could it be a mix of both? Light and thin at the top, while bulky at the bottom. Light saber designs are something I've hardly thought of, but it makes sense. Looks like every Jedi needs to be a great mechanic themselves
There's an argument that philosophically Anakin didn't make any changes to his second Lightsaber, I'll admit physically he made improvements over it's design, and additional functionality but the feelings behind Anakin's second lightsaber still stemmed from the same line of thinking as his first constructed lightsaber and further shows how much of Vader there was in Anakin all along.
We all have a dark side that tends towards agression and violence but we do not all act on it as our first or dominate sense of self. If ones ability to hate is not as great as ones ability to love than that person is either a liar of the highest order and lying to themselves as well as the world at large, they are a feckless emfeniite man, or they are ignorant on a grand level. That does not mean we go around bashing each other's heads in at a drop of a dime. We are human after all and not at all a slave to our most primal urges we have intellect that can rule over any inborn nature or instincts. Some do this better than others. Males tend tohave stronger sex drive than women and it shows but most men do not go around wraping women some do most do not. Outside of some terrible trama seldom does a person base personality change with age. How they express their thoughts, needs, dreams adn desires might change but not their most basic sense of self. As you grow in experince and age some of use are constantly growing and changing while some of us stop at some point. Most people I knew that where jerks and or not good people in high school are still who they where then but older! Anakin was not fated to become Lord Varder he made a choice at a very critical point we know when he made that choice. He refused to repent and go back and instead doubled down. He chose to play the victim card long after he had the power and athority to flip the script. I understand he is no a real person and was written that way but if you look closely he had many oppertunities to walk away! Since the story was writen by men who wanted to tell a story it is all very accedemic and hypothetical since we know how the story ends!
@@buckaroobonsi555 I think you grossly misinterpreted what I said, I wasn't saying Anakin intended to go around killing people with his lightsabers or what Vader would use his for, but he did construct both his sabers with the mindset that "He needed a strong weapon to protect those he cared about with." It's not a bad line of thinking but it's not within the Jedi code for the fact that a Jedis' lightsaber is a tool, not a weapon this is what I meant by seeing Vader in Anakin he solely made a weapon.
It makes even more sense why Vader didn’t care that his lightsaber was so similar to Anakin’s. Anakin/Vader never cared about the symbolism of a lightsaber like Sidious and the Jedi. To him, it was nothing more than a weapon, not a connection to his past.
every saber is a reflection of the wielder, not like, metaphorically, like, they follow the force in the crafting of their saber, it's why sidious's saber is so gaudy, it's material cost alone is worth dozens of what others are to spite the jedi's idea of demure somber saber enforcement.
So as I understand it. Anakin understood war was at hand sith were coming, so he made a saber for this purpose to defend what at the time he feel right while also mastering his combat style and paring with a weapon on par with his skill, and the conceil goes “mmm dont like that”. No wonder the sith won the clone wars.
I remember as a kid those ridges were horrible to play with as a child,n as I got to be a teen n young adult n got into combat sports and weapon training,I found them to be very useful and since my hands were bigger and in my lil "fan " star wars movies I used Vaders saber also with a "gloved" robot right hand,it felt really nice in the glove and easier to move around in and I was like 😱😵😲😯😯 that's whyy they're there lol,idk how Rey is able to weild it and makes sense why Luke's green saber made him a better duelist
-Take a seat, young Skywalker. -* Takes a seat. * -We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to sitting.
The Jedi: "don't make a good weapon that might hurt people who are trying to kill you". Also the Jedi: "We ignored our own ignorance and failed the entire galaxy, but it was Anakin's fault".
The jedi fussed about a lot of things, but damn they didnt need to fret over how lightsabers are built. Yes its a symbol but not a fragile one, can the "chosen one" of whatever era build a practical handle?
@@CoffeeManiac20 I blame mace windu, he ALWAYS was trying to undermine and pick Anakin apart so he would leave. My personal headcannon is that Mace windu was jealous of Anakin and believed he himself was the choose one because of his purple lightsaber and new dark side oriented fighting style, so when Anakin came along and threatened the false reality Mace was living in by simply EXISTING, he imidatly started trying to get Anakin kicked out the order by intentionally being a prick to him and undermining everything Anakin did while also being overly critical at the same time. Basically, mace windu was always spitting in Anakin's face every time he had the chance and when anakin reacted, mace would be all like: "counsel meeting! 'The chosen one' just slipped up, let's bully him again"
@@theglichedbear that would be also true. Anakin was a revolutionary in lightsaber combat, design and more practical robes for field work. It was going against the Jedi hippie monk style
If I were Anakin I would have built in a secret compartment in my robotic arm to hide my saber. I would pretend like I don’t use one only to sneak attack with it.
Can only imagine how much anakin could have utilized his prosthetic if he had more time and resources. With his level of creativity, he could have made himself one that could emit "saber claws" if he wanted
My favourite Light Saber is Coran Horns. who was a Correllian Jedi. His family were a long line of jedi from the Corellian Jedi enclave which unlike the parent order were encouraged to marry and have children. It was a duel phase lightsaber with a white blade the hallmark of the Halycon family. He built it from secret designs hidden in a corellian herbology text.
The grip strips... cut up wiper blades. The original bubble like inset strip... from a calculator display. The body... the flash gun battery from an old fashioned camera. That was the prop department way back then as well as today. In Episode 1, Qui Gon's communicator is a ladys shaving razor.😅😅😅😅😅
As a former sabre fencer…… once i really had several years of training and was finally past the basics (yes i feel it takes years) then i started experimenting wioth different grip shapes to suit my hand, different guards to suit how i prefer to hold the sabre, and also tweaking how my blade was bent/shaped to suit my preferred fighting style. Any true weapon practioner will start to tweak their weapons to suit them once they gain enough skill.
Anakin did nothing wrong. He was taken advantage by both Jedi and sith. Anakin is the balance in the force, balance of both light and dark. Jedi wanted him for his light side, sith wanted him for his dark side. Both purposely held him back from his true potential in order to get what they wanted out of him.
@@OG61982Technically he felt that way because the Council kept holding him back. Obiwan refusing his testing and advancement. And remember Anakin is a Force user, he can sense the distrust, the negative thoughts of the Council when addressing him. No matter how good he did he was basically chided and put aside because they feared how good he could be or even was at that moment compared to his experience and age. Its hard to grow a healthy mindset when everyone has a cold reception to you. The Council were quite two faced with him and he could feel it.
As much as we all love Yoda... Dude is the perfect example of why old people shouldn't lead anyone. And before anyone disagrees, remember that Yoda basically came to the same conclusion after Order 66 and everything that came afterwards. He secluded himself away, not to protect himself; but others from himself. He realized the foolishness of his follies. The danger he brought upon so many, because of his own pride. Pride, that he told others to not have. If Yoda, and through him Obi Wan as well, had just accepted that Anakin was not going to be their perfect Jedi, he probably would have not ended up a Sith in the first place. He would have become something closer to a Grey, not completely, but not Sith either. Yoda, love him or hate him, is the perfect example of why pushing the idea of "why are you not like me or better than me" is a fools notion. He should have just accepted that some will take a different path than he has, and help them along the way instead of chastise them. Post-Edit: It should also be said, that as per the lore of the Star Wars galaxy (as per I understand at least), The force as it were does not care how you live, or die; only that you live and die. Everything else is just a balancing act between opposing forces. If Yoda and the council had realized this far sooner, they wouldn't have made so many mistakes. They would have realized the corruption oozing around them, was coming from them.
It's interesting how much thought goes into the design after the fact when the original prop for this light saber was just a graflex camera arm. Very little thought went into the design, they just looked through someone's kit bag and pulled out the first thing that looked appropriately scifi
Hey, your lightsaber hilt looks like it's specifically built to accommodate and compliment your fighting style. That's taboo. It should be pretty and elegant instead. Every Jedi got slaughtered. They might have made it if their lightsaber hits were crafted better
Ani didn't even have his own lightsaber for the first duel with Dooku. He borrowed the green bladed one after his original got cut in half in the Geonosian droid factory. I wonder if that affected his duel with Dooku...
You know the more I think about the more I realize that the Jedi were so far removed from what they were suppose to be and Yoda himself is the best evidence of that. What I mean is being the whole Light vs dark, both of which are highly subjective terms, it's the intention of the person that defines the words light and dark. So that being said Yoda's dismissal of the fact that jedi are warriors is clear as day and the reason the jedi order failed Anakin and many other Jedi. Mace Windu and others with a purple crystal seemed to understand that the Jedi code is more about walking that fine like of light AND dark, because that is the key our own individual paths, not to conform to defined standards, but to balance and define the light and darkness in ones self. Yoda and majority of the council were honestly to blinded in their faith to realize that every Jedi is gonna be different. I really think Mace Windu should have been the one to work/guide Anakin Besides there is clearly a different between a Jedi who's coucilmen/woman compared to a jedi knight/warrior
They made a simulation on Maul… based on probably video footage after the fight. They can easily make a simulation based on Dooku = Archive footage from Dooku’s training days when he was a Jedi.
Another aspect of the tinker roots of Anakin was the modification of his lightsaber to be a "utility multitool" allowing adjustments to the blade all the way down in length and thickness to a fine utility knife. This was accomplished by incorporating a multi-crystal array into the hilt Controlled by those external knobs. Incorporating two crystals would permit modification of EITHER Length OR Thickness, while incorporating THREE allows adjustment of BOTH. (Splinter of the Mind's Eye)
I'm sorry but our favorite green goblin is just full of it on this one. "Um, yes, Lightsaber, cut through anything, it can, best held hand weapon in galaxy, it is, a symbol of abnegation it is" - Yoda presumably? I mean, come on, the lightsaber was always meant to be a weapon, if the jedi really wanted to prove their willingness to sacrifice themselves for their ideals they wouldn't carry one at all (like master Fay) or would carry some kind of strictly non-lethal weapon, instead they carried one of the most lethal weapons in the galaxy, taking shit with Anakin just because he went "Okay fine, If I have to use this weapon, and it looks like I'm going to have to use it a lot, given the whole WAR thing that just started, I'll make it the best damn weapon I can" is just being petty and silly.
From how it sounds, yeah, a saber with a wider blade for defense and sturdier hilt for heavy blows worked out quite well after Vader ended up in the suit and his fighting style got slower and stiffer.
Rewatching the Prequels. The Jedi were borderline abussive to Anakin from day 1. Told a scared cold little boy step by step how his fear would lead to the Darkside then let it happen. Even to the bitter end Anakin was loyal turned in the only person who ever listened to him, to Windu, Palpatine was a Sith. Mace's response: yelled in his face he didn't trust, or have confidence in him, but if he wasn't a liar then he would. At least the Sith own what they are, laugh diabolically about what evil maniacs they are. Except for Vader the trauma from the Jedi robbed him of enjoying that too.
Palpatine exploited Anakin's desire to be treated humanely to use him as a pawn to destroy the Jedi and rule the galaxy. Even when Palpatine did succeed, he probably treated Anakin(as Darth Vader) as a slave as well.
Still funny to think that Annakin was the chosen one to bring balance to the force and Obi Wan is upset he didn't, yet in their time the Sith were practically extinct, so having one of the strongest force users fall to the dark side actually did help balance
This video is amazing soo many new things I never knew about the lightsaber and purpose of construction alone I didn’t know it could be manipulated in so many ways
It is the Jedi fault Anakin fell to the Darkside!...🤣 Their Limited view of Lightside frustrated Anakin...🤯 They didn't know how to properly train themselve in the lightside of the Force. Not all emotions lead to the Darkside!...🤔 Their dogmatic view of the Force caused the fall of their order!...😪 Too bad they weren't more like Qui-Gon Jinn! He had a more in depth view into the Lightside then even the Grand Master! No wonder Sideous was afraid of him! Sideous was right! The Jedi Lightside Dogmatic view of the Force was wrong and that's why their order fell to order 66!
Forgot to install a blade length adjustment feature. Forgot to install an auxiliary blaster. Didn't use a portable shield generator in combat. No gauntlets made of cortosis/mandalorian iron to prevent hands being chopped off. Low marks from me.
Anakin's 2nd lightsaber design is one of my favorite hilts ever in star wars. Me & Anakin have the similar mentality when it comes to battles , views on life & style of character. ✅️
OMG!!!!! So many rules with the jedi. I feel like sneezing loud around them would make them think I'm venturing into the dark side. I'm glad that I made a red lightsaber when I went to Disney lmao
First time watching one of your videos, this was really cool ! Did Luke like his father's Saber? Did he keep any of the things when he built his green one ?
They can grip a force choke or a mango on a fork so gently a loved one could take a tasty nibble... but not a lightsaber unless it is knurled or properly thick? I mean ... Yeah I guess
I still say his first lightsaber hilt was better than the second one. That's why as Vader his hilt design fell back on the first hilt design with the bulky feel of the second hilt, making Vader's hilt truly ideal for him in respects to the first, and second hilts.
I think the faact vader’s lightsaber is just a thicker version of his Padawan lightsaber is a good homage to the fact Vader likes to torture himself with his mistakes
Listening to saber design decisions is like listening to children describe what their imaginary tools do. Nothing based on reality .. but it sounds cute and interesting with how enthusiastic they are.
Instead of helping jedi's with theses emotions, they've just shunned the idea of the emotions. The jedi's would've been more balanced if they have taught them how to mediate with the emotions.
The most interesting part about this is the only thing Anakin changed in his lightsaber when he became death Vader was the crystal. He took his old hilt (self) with him. Rebuilding the hilt would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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-Jedi council thrusts anakin to the frontline of a war as a general.
-anakin adapts for battle
-council: 😮
The jedi are just as bad as Darth Vader
if not worse then vader
The Jedi council are far too arrogant
don't join a war if you aren't willing to fight it.
The last jedi council created mkre darksiders then all of history put together. They made them warriors as children or as monks who hated violence, so what did they expect. They were supposed to protect and serve the people of the republic, not lead them to battle. That was a major change that had never happened before that, they had war with sith , and mandalorains , but the mandalorains were attacking, the jedi defended, this war the jedi were trained for war , given military titles and even the padawans and youngling were training for war, not defense , against everything they were supposed to do.
The jedi took youngling from family's due to.the fact they could accidentally hurt themselves or others. They didn't have to become jedi, that was made cannon later, at first ut was to protect them amd those around them, and they originally could learn tk control it enough to be safe and go home, but that was changed for some reason, the original novels and books , they didn't kidnap kids forever because they had the force , they were trained for enough co trol to not hurt people and sent home if they wished to be.
Seems the Council will look for any excuse to not like Anakin
Seems like they should have did something about it before they got murdered lol
I never really liked the Jedi order, they're so arrogant and always make excuses for their failures.
@@TrailtheprootThey’re also in denial.
lets face it if Palpatine wasn't a Sith, the Jedi would have STILL made Anakin one.
@@thanqualthehighseerIf the sith did not exist then the force would not crate anakin
Ah yes, a girthy lightsaber, ribbed for the council's displeasure!
underrated comment, have a like and a reply
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Cursed. Cursed, I say
I wanted to make a comment on girth, yet found this comment already perfect lol!
Lol 😮
Jedi council: makes the order focused on politics, and therefore war.
Also jedi council: It’s making me upset you are updating your weapon to survive the wars we put you in.
They're concentration on politics is what started the public's trust issue with the jedi
Politics and war aren't synonyms. They are related, but they definitely aren't the same.
Finding a diplomatic ending, which is a type of politics, is often one of the many responsibilities of Jedi in the Order. Don't get it twisted.
Stop trying to dress the Order in a way that helps you throw rocks. That just telegraphs how little you actually know about, in this case, Yoda's Order.
The Jedi Order had an obligation to the Republic. They didn't choose to go to war. They were forced to. And so yes, they were upset at what the war did to their Order and what sacrifices it increasingly demanded.
@@Pun116 the order pre modern republic, was seperate, in the same sense of church and state, with the jedi only acting as mediators between sides or to fight dark siders, modern republic jedi, primarily yoda's jedi order, was more politicians than mediators, going so far as to join a completely legal civil war, have 0 military training but accept general officer posts, constantly resorting to violence, all while hee hawing over actually just doing the whole war thing. It's why theres rarely ever been a jedi leading a war that doesn't either lose, or fall to the dark side, because to actually be good at war, you can't be a hippy.
In the Old Republic, it was said that the Jedi were more individualistic. Their connections to the force was also specific to them as individuals.
That could have also applied to the design of their lightsabers too.
Anakin constructed a saber that was right for him. It suited both his battle style and personal preferences.
Which is why saber colors were less diverse at the end. They were all of the same mind and understanding, so to speak.
@@IngisenThe Jedi are what happens when Karens' get in charge and spend a few 1000yrs banning anything that they didnt personaly like.
Also in the old republic there was more fallen Jedi then ever before or after.
Yep
Well that's pretty much my feeling about Whole of Star Wars: the farther your stray from the Skywalker story the better it got, the old Republic being my favorite part
Anakin Skywalker: takes a deep breath
The Jedi High Council: 'We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to breathing'
"fear leads to anger"
@@protocolsavage8506 Change that to : our constant disrespect for you leads to anger
I love this. So real.
-Take a seat, young Skywalker.
-* Takes a seat. *
-We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to sitting.
The Order's concern for overattachment is completely valid. They only have themselves to blame for teaching Anakin when they shouldn't have.
Rather, the Order should blame the atrocious writing that made them so inconsistent. Literally no reason to teach Anakin after Qui-Gon was slain, but they did anyways. Unbelievable.
Imagine how powerful and strong in the light, Anakin Skywalker would be, had the council recieved him warmly, and helped him work through his traumas. Everytime another video comes out, the more i hate the Jedi haha
I don't hate the jedi, I just hate the high council lol.
I love Samuel L. Jackson, but I really hate Mace Windu!
Old grown ass man will always be like this. They had to, bc of fear, remember what Palpatine said, A person with power will be most afraid of losing it.
I couldn't agree more
This is exactly why I play light side Sith in Star Wars the old Republic
Mad Respect to Anakin for constructing a purely functional lightsaber. I would've done the same.
And that's the right answer
Honestly I’m perplexed that the alternative was even an option for the Jedi, who supposedly didn’t trouble themselves with worldly cares. How a lightsaber looks should be far less important than how it works.
@@GGBlaster---That's an excellent point. They were concerned in the wrong places.
@GGBlaster ... but "Jedi are peacekeepers" ... often times merely showing the laser-sword was enough to 'get what you wanted" ... you didn't even need to ignite the blade!
@@ChurchNietzscheit's a lightsaber not a lazer sword
The purpose of a weapon is combat. Designing one to perfectly reflect it's purpose is a fairly logical thing to do. The Jedi were the weird ones for trying to turn a weapon into a symbol of peace.
I see... You deny your weapon its purpose!
well when you dedicate yourself to light, and want to protect life, youre view on using weapons can change drastically. essentially leading to the jedi (in this case) seeking answers from the force moreso then focusing on protection (wether it being themselves or others)
@@Poldovicomy sword is a tool to bring.... PEACE. JUSTICE. FREEDOM AND SECURITY TO MY NEW EMPIRE
@@BD-Helldroid that I understand. But the idea that a weapon is anything other than a weapon is still stupid.
@@markcarpenter6020 pacifist mentality sadly. like for you or me yea, weapon is weapon.
It honestly makes sense to have a weapon that reflects the way you are going to use it, like Dooku (and his actor), I am a trained fencer with a rapier. I also do competitive LED Saber combat with TSL. My hilt for that purpose is designed to be used like I use a rapier. A slightly smaller diameter and hilt length that allows me to fight better with a single hand. If I remember my Jedi Lore correctly, the ancient Jedi were of the same notion that Anakin was in designing a lightsaber that was meant for the battlefield and specifically dueling against another lightsaber wielder. Anakin was going back to earlier Jedi roots when the galaxy was more violent that The Council would as soon forget.
It's yet another indictment against the Jedi Council of how arrogant they had grown in their position as the "keepers of peace". No Sith? No Problems.
But build a lightsaber with the intention to wage battle? Oh, how scandalous
Man you an ooba geek
The Council are like your in laws: nothing you do is ever good enough
Or a control freak parent who favors their "golden child"
That's why I don't have in-laws
Yes it is funny how when faced with a similar problem to solve so many great minds come up with very similar solutions even when seperated by vast distances with no interaction and super slow communication. We call this parallee development. Also outside of ideology almost everyone enjoys a logical sound critical and diserning application of logic and sceince to solving problems. When people restrict the solutions you can come up with it is always about power and control!
The youngling slayer 3000
Past down to father to man who left him to die burning in a lava river to son.
If Dooku says your blade skills suck, you shouldnt feel offended.
Its an indication that you have room to improve.
Nice lesson
You should feel afraid
Tell him to go find his hands and then come back with that statement
@@kingatlanofatlantis3075 Last time i checked, he didnt need hands XD
@@antcow1239 Versus Yoda he did. He said it himself.
So, Anakin's new lightsaber was basically a Broadsword or Bastard Sword (Wide blade with hand and half grip). I know they have been mentioned but I would like to see a Jedi or Sith with a Light Rapier and a Master of Form 2, like Dooku.
We’ve actually sorta got that already with dooku! Christopher lee was a trained fencer and his curved hilt was to match and bring out his style :) to your point, it would be cool to see a genuine lightsaber rapier, thin blade, maybe even the full basket hilt? Could be sweet
There's actually a planet where local nobles use lightsabers like rapiers for dueling.
Jedi: makes child a soldier and sends him to war
Child: makes his laser sword more effective at war and protecting himself from it
Jedi: absolute blasphemy!
@@kadbenson7540 Lightsaber
Anakin: "I built a lightsaber and didn't add any extra crap because we're at war right now, and I need one fast. Also, my arm got cut off, so it's bigger to fit my prosthetic better. I'm the chosen one and will probably have to fight Count Dooku again. Winning that fight would be beneficial to literally EVERYONE on our side, so I made adjustments to help me do that."
Council: *upset jedi noises and continued disapproval*
I'm wondering why he didn't also add a lanyard. I mean that's a functional no-brainer
It Is Rather Tragic::
Anakin (and his saber) was 'exactly what was needed' to combat Dooku and the Sith ... ... yet it was those very things that destroyed the Jedi Order!
the lightsaber Anakin used in his first duel with Dooku wasn’t even his own (neither was Obi Wan’s). It was a spare that another jedi threw to him therefore didnt fully fit his combat style.
Which just goes to show, you should always carry a spare. But you do bring up a very valid point.
@@gunguntrio1247 i mean you wouldn’t use another person’s glasses because it wasn’t made for you right? That said, I wonder how much better (if even slightly) Anakin would have done against Dooku if he still had his lightsaber. Maybe enough to keep his hand?
@@DSdemon767Honestly, he probably would have went in there even cockier if you can imagine that. He was naturally talented at things and because of that, he didn't put in as much effort in studying and training. This defeat helped humble him and to start taking some things more serious and with that came the construction of said lightsaber. Even more interesting when you consider the Dooku duel in episode 3 how in the beginning both he and Obi-Wan kept "stumbling" over each other to give Dooku a false sense of superiority and lull him into making mistakes. Anakin really grew in that time which I'm fully aware that I went completely off base with this comment but here we are. Anakin needed his defeat by Dooku to force him to grow. And yet, they still never learned to carry a spare saber on them afterwards.
@@gunguntrio1247 My guess they only have one lightsaber at a time to push the idea that they have to take really good care of it. And then the Clone Wars happened.
imagine the coversation:
Obi Wan: This weapon is your life
Anakin: Can I make a spare?
Obi Wan: Do you have a spare life?
Poor craftsman always blames his tools.
This video is awesome. Wow I never knew that. I didn’t know that Anakin’s lightsaber was built for conquest and for attacks. I believe it was very interesting that Anakin’s duel on Geonosis changed him.
Losing an arm does tend to change people
i feel that Luke in legends is far more simular to the idea that Yoda and the rest of the hige council had of the chosen one. when needed Luke will fight but he also studys the force, learn new technices etc.
For all the atrocities Vader committed with that saber during Order 66 before losing it to Obi-Wan, you'd think it'd be imbued with the dark side and corrupt anyone who uses it. I wonder if there are any references to Obi-Wan purifying it before giving it to Luke.
A weapon is simply a tool to do things, while the saber was used for evil the saber itself was created by a jedi and then eventually returned to a Jedi as well, unlike a proper sith Krystal which is bled with anger and hate and dark side energy which would be a more corrupt blade born out of malice although we've never seen a sith blade corrupt others for using it, as there are numerous instances of Jedi using red sabers and being just fine with it (if you know, you know)
@@memlordnord567 however in the old republic there have been accounts of squads whether scavengers or ones who hunt artifacts some artifacts are sith lightsabers with soooooooooooooo much power within them still after the sith long since dead corrupted many if not all of those who went into the siths tomb in search of artifacts.
Vader never bled his original Saber because he was still at that point holding onto the little bit of light he had left. If he had bled that saved it probably would've done exactly what you said.
@@GriffenSpadeIsBack those were also tools made with sith alchemy, which is like, mispronounce one thing during your spell and summon a cthulu tentacle to rip you apart, vs vader who functionally never touched alchemy barring when he worked with mask dude that possessed someone in the comics.
TSW, this video has a critical error. In Attack of the Clones, when Anakin's lightsaber is crushed in the fabrication press in the Geonosis Droid Factory, he says, "Not again. Obi Wan's gonna kill me.", which implies that Anakin'd had a lightsaber destroyed before, meaning that the lightsaber which he constructs going into the Clone Wars is at least his third lightsaber.
Should be included in he thesis
Or a fourth. Perhaps, even a fifth.
My, this is but another prime example on humanity's pre-established tendency of following the overall mass collective thought as opposed to logically checking the actual facts themselves - as clearly proven in what we popularly know as "The Mandela effect" social phenomena. You could argue that this comment is yet another proof of this inherent, fascinating dichotom-
I wondered about that. Padwans make sabers that look similar to their masters. But Anakin has always made his stand out from his master's.
So he went from a fencing foil to a two handed broad sword
More like fencing coil to bastard sword
No one ever seems to note how Anakin's hilt actually looked very much like Yoda's. The grip, the shrouded emitter, all of it. So it wasn't exactly some drastically different design. All I'm saying
They probably were offended it looked like yodas.
If that’s the case I’m curious to how Ahsoka’s was built with her being under Anakin and during season 6
Ahsoka's sabers share a lot of DNA with Anakin's and Obi-Wan's hilts. She has noticeably thinner hilts than both of her seniors-likely to accommodate her smaller hands. She's 14 at the turn of the Clone Wars and much smaller than Anakin. She also doesn't have ribs on any of her hilts. When I watch her fight against Grievous and other opponents, she seems to prioritize grace/agility (like Obi-Wan) instead of overpowering strikes (like Anakin). I suppose that lack of power is supplemented by her shoto saber (maybe more blades = more power?). The drastic difference between her Clone Wars hilts and Post-Republic hilts is more intriguing. They look more ceremonial than her Clone Wars hilts-although still plain. Maybe a sign of increased maturity as a servant of the Force. During Rebels, there were few bladed combatants that could match her skills with the blade. Dooku, Grievous, Ventress, Oppress, Maul, and maybe Vizsla all had a good leg up on her during the first half of the Clone Wars. During Rebels, the majority threat were Inquisitors who were largely below her skill. The majority inferior opponents meant less need for a functional design. The curved hilts that she uses in Rebels and onwards might signal further improvement of her saber skills. I know Dooku favored the curved hilt for its unpredictability and encouraged Ventress to use similar hilts (less curved though). So perhaps Ahsoka took what she learned from fighting those two and incorporated it into her design.
@@Evening-Sky It always seemed to me that she preferred not to use the lightsaber when there were other ways to deal with a threat, so her later hilt design makes sense. Plus, after breaking away from the order, she likely wasn't as likely to want to show the mark of a Jedi through use of the lightsaber.
@@Squidbush8563 Absolutely! I haven't noticed her reluctance to fight until now. It is painfully clear how her teenage years as a Commander in the Clone Wars left a bad taste in her mouth for combat (maybe even hate combat). She went without a lightsaber for years and seemed to do just fine which further reinforces the high likelihood that she disliked bearing the mark of a Jedi.
@@Evening-Sky i haven't actually finished clone wars myself yet, so i have no firsthand knowledge, but from what i understand she had to fight a war with a group of soldiers, who eventually were probably something akin to friends or even family, and then at the end they were all forced to turn against her. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to disdain violence after that.
@@Kataclysm113 Agreed. It is more than reasonable to dislike violence after being a soldier in a 4-year war. Ahsoka was pretty mature at digesting the emotion losses (even great ones) from a young age, but I don't think her maturity dulled the sense of "oh this war is terribly wrong".
I always found it interesting that Vader's saber resembled Anakin's. Makes sense he would basically recreate it if he built it for functionality.
They are both the same person.
@@sabrewolf4129 Yes, but it resembled the lightsaber of a jedi. Of his pre darkside fall. I always assumed he would want it to look different so as not to remind him.
@@gunguntrio1247 You're reading to much into it. It's a movie and the prop makers made it that way.
@@sabrewolf4129 Yes it is. While your ability to point out the obvious is astute, you have forgotten one thing. People will obviously take notice of the worlds that interest them and think and wonder about it. That is who we are.
@@gunguntrio1247 Thank you for acknowledging I am smarter than Star Wars fans🤣
Seriously, they withheld information from Anakin, telling him that he's not ready
So since he can't expand his mind, he expands his ability for combat, this also bothers them.
I'm sure if he sat around doing nothing, they'd call him lazy too. The old Jedi form 1000 years ago would have been proud. You can't have peace without being ready for war. They were even more arrogant than the Sith and scared too.
Vader: “Anakin is gone, I am what remains”
Also Vader: Steals Anakin’s drip
Anakin is in some ways like an echo of Dooku in this regard. Both felt out of place among the jedi, both were giant lightsaber nerds who built there own non-traditional lightsabers and became obsessed with becoming the best duelists they could be, even to the point of neglecting their more force-focused training, something which irritated both Palpatine and Yoda regarding both men since Yoda and Palpatine believed they should've focused more on mastering their use of the force. I swear every time Dooku and Skywalker crossed blades, it almost became a goddam pissing contest of who could lightsaber better... well in the end Anakin won that game.
True. 😄
When **isn't** the Jedi Council throwing a hissy fit over something? They didn't approve of Dooku's lightsaber, either.
Seems to me like if you're pissing off the Jedi Council, you're doing something right.
Qui-Gon basked in pissing them off. The only time I'm aware Obi-Wan did was to honor Qui-Gon's last wish.
Interestingly though Blue/Green were the colors of guardians and consulars, Anakin was probably more in line with the Jedi Sentinels which also included many of the orders best tinkers and artisans.
Though at the time of the clone wars in legends the crystals themselves created the blades colors and Ilum crystals could only produce blue/green.
Also another interesting fact which disney has tried to bury is that in episode 1 obi-wans crystal was forged and not found. And the old sith often manufactured their own crystals using the dark side not just by bleeding but much of that knowledge died or was lost at the begining of the rule of 2.
This video style where some parts are video clips and some are pics is better than the usual videos you make with just short video clips
Ikr. Less flickering, and a clearer picture
They worried because they knew I was better than them. They held me back. Yoda, Obi-wan, Master Windu...they feared and underestimated my power. They paid the price!
And like yoda said fear is a path to the dark side Skywalker
so did you
Good thing you brought peace, freedom, justice and security to your new empire!
And when you destroyed the Jedi council, did you find that peace of mind you were looking for?
@@NavistonCromwell nah but it felt good
He went for function but it had the most swag too
7:07 did you accidently bump the table? Scared me 😭🤣🤣
Now I'm wondering what a lightsaber geared towards All 7 forms would look like. If it's too thick, it's bad for defense; too thin, no offence. Could it be a mix of both? Light and thin at the top, while bulky at the bottom.
Light saber designs are something I've hardly thought of, but it makes sense. Looks like every Jedi needs to be a great mechanic themselves
Not unlike being skilled in both the use of a weapon and its maintenance and upkeep. Not exactly, but similar enough.
There's an argument that philosophically Anakin didn't make any changes to his second Lightsaber, I'll admit physically he made improvements over it's design, and additional functionality but the feelings behind Anakin's second lightsaber still stemmed from the same line of thinking as his first constructed lightsaber and further shows how much of Vader there was in Anakin all along.
We all have a dark side that tends towards agression and violence but we do not all act on it as our first or dominate sense of self. If ones ability to hate is not as great as ones ability to love than that person is either a liar of the highest order and lying to themselves as well as the world at large, they are a feckless emfeniite man, or they are ignorant on a grand level. That does not mean we go around bashing each other's heads in at a drop of a dime. We are human after all and not at all a slave to our most primal urges we have intellect that can rule over any inborn nature or instincts. Some do this better than others. Males tend tohave stronger sex drive than women and it shows but most men do not go around wraping women some do most do not. Outside of some terrible trama seldom does a person base personality change with age. How they express their thoughts, needs, dreams adn desires might change but not their most basic sense of self. As you grow in experince and age some of use are constantly growing and changing while some of us stop at some point. Most people I knew that where jerks and or not good people in high school are still who they where then but older! Anakin was not fated to become Lord Varder he made a choice at a very critical point we know when he made that choice. He refused to repent and go back and instead doubled down. He chose to play the victim card long after he had the power and athority to flip the script. I understand he is no a real person and was written that way but if you look closely he had many oppertunities to walk away! Since the story was writen by men who wanted to tell a story it is all very accedemic and hypothetical since we know how the story ends!
@@buckaroobonsi555 I think you grossly misinterpreted what I said, I wasn't saying Anakin intended to go around killing people with his lightsabers or what Vader would use his for, but he did construct both his sabers with the mindset that "He needed a strong weapon to protect those he cared about with." It's not a bad line of thinking but it's not within the Jedi code for the fact that a Jedis' lightsaber is a tool, not a weapon this is what I meant by seeing Vader in Anakin he solely made a weapon.
It makes even more sense why Vader didn’t care that his lightsaber was so similar to Anakin’s. Anakin/Vader never cared about the symbolism of a lightsaber like Sidious and the Jedi. To him, it was nothing more than a weapon, not a connection to his past.
not true vader's sith saber was very similar to his first jedi saber and as the video stated vader's subconscious built the saber that way
@@justindoolittle4104 That's what Zach said. "his lightsaber was so similar to Anakin’s"
every saber is a reflection of the wielder, not like, metaphorically, like, they follow the force in the crafting of their saber, it's why sidious's saber is so gaudy, it's material cost alone is worth dozens of what others are to spite the jedi's idea of demure somber saber enforcement.
So as I understand it. Anakin understood war was at hand sith were coming, so he made a saber for this purpose to defend what at the time he feel right while also mastering his combat style and paring with a weapon on par with his skill, and the conceil goes “mmm dont like that”. No wonder the sith won the clone wars.
Next video: Why Anakin's choice of underwear disgusted the Jedi council to their core
No way bro. They wore robes on purpose. Gotta let the force flow freely. 😂
Let him wear a Bra it was a gift from Padme after all
Makes sense Anakin felt fear for future events while making his first Lightsaber since it's just a silver version of Vader's from Ep4 and 5
Always fun to learn more about the youngling slayer 5000
I remember as a kid those ridges were horrible to play with as a child,n as I got to be a teen n young adult n got into combat sports and weapon training,I found them to be very useful and since my hands were bigger and in my lil "fan " star wars movies I used Vaders saber also with a "gloved" robot right hand,it felt really nice in the glove and easier to move around in and I was like 😱😵😲😯😯 that's whyy they're there lol,idk how Rey is able to weild it and makes sense why Luke's green saber made him a better duelist
-Take a seat, young Skywalker.
-* Takes a seat. *
-We're beginning to fear that the chosen one might have developed an unhealthy attachment to sitting.
Council: you turned him (Anakin) against me!
The Chancellor: you have done that your self! snarf
*Sends to war* "Why are you violent?"
The Jedi: "don't make a good weapon that might hurt people who are trying to kill you".
Also the Jedi: "We ignored our own ignorance and failed the entire galaxy, but it was Anakin's fault".
The jedi fussed about a lot of things, but damn they didnt need to fret over how lightsabers are built.
Yes its a symbol but not a fragile one, can the "chosen one" of whatever era build a practical handle?
Little Ani could pick his nose and the Council would believe he's getting closer to the Dark Side.
I blame Ki Adi Mundi
@@CoffeeManiac20 I blame mace windu, he ALWAYS was trying to undermine and pick Anakin apart so he would leave. My personal headcannon is that Mace windu was jealous of Anakin and believed he himself was the choose one because of his purple lightsaber and new dark side oriented fighting style, so when Anakin came along and threatened the false reality Mace was living in by simply EXISTING, he imidatly started trying to get Anakin kicked out the order by intentionally being a prick to him and undermining everything Anakin did while also being overly critical at the same time. Basically, mace windu was always spitting in Anakin's face every time he had the chance and when anakin reacted, mace would be all like: "counsel meeting! 'The chosen one' just slipped up, let's bully him again"
@@theglichedbear that would be also true. Anakin was a revolutionary in lightsaber combat, design and more practical robes for field work. It was going against the Jedi hippie monk style
@@CoffeeManiac20 Don't forget a was also a revolutionary in Space Ship Design something only master Tiin appreaciated
@@TheRadioknight precisely
If I were Anakin I would have built in a secret compartment in my robotic arm to hide my saber. I would pretend like I don’t use one only to sneak attack with it.
I love that the universal way to make the light saber sound is vumm🙏🏽🙌🏾
The Jedi Council complained about everything Anakin. Don't wear dark robes, make a lightsaber built for war, etc...
Can only imagine how much anakin could have utilized his prosthetic if he had more time and resources. With his level of creativity, he could have made himself one that could emit "saber claws" if he wanted
Edward Laserhands lol!
Always thought the lightsaber hilt change was also because of his new hand, had to get something that worked well in his new metal high five
My favourite Light Saber is Coran Horns. who was a Correllian Jedi. His family were a long line of jedi from the Corellian Jedi enclave which unlike the parent order were encouraged to marry and have children. It was a duel phase lightsaber with a white blade the hallmark of the Halycon family. He built it from secret designs hidden in a corellian herbology text.
Great video! I really enjoyed this one. Thank you
I like how George Lucas threw a bunch of scraps together in the 70’s to make a laser sword look somewhat cool and futuristic, and now it’s lore😂
The grip strips... cut up wiper blades. The original bubble like inset strip... from a calculator display. The body... the flash gun battery from an old fashioned camera. That was the prop department way back then as well as today.
In Episode 1, Qui Gon's communicator is a ladys shaving razor.😅😅😅😅😅
As a former sabre fencer…… once i really had several years of training and was finally past the basics (yes i feel it takes years) then i started experimenting wioth different grip shapes to suit my hand, different guards to suit how i prefer to hold the sabre, and also tweaking how my blade was bent/shaped to suit my preferred fighting style. Any true weapon practioner will start to tweak their weapons to suit them once they gain enough skill.
Anakin did nothing wrong. He was taken advantage by both Jedi and sith. Anakin is the balance in the force, balance of both light and dark. Jedi wanted him for his light side, sith wanted him for his dark side. Both purposely held him back from his true potential in order to get what they wanted out of him.
Had Anakin been treated like a regular person, he would have been the greatest Force User who ever lived.
That's the thing I think that made anakin so amazing though. He was a living example of the struggle between both sides.
Anakin wasn’t patient enough. He felt like he was owed something. Granted he did a lot.
@@OG61982Technically he felt that way because the Council kept holding him back. Obiwan refusing his testing and advancement. And remember Anakin is a Force user, he can sense the distrust, the negative thoughts of the Council when addressing him. No matter how good he did he was basically chided and put aside because they feared how good he could be or even was at that moment compared to his experience and age. Its hard to grow a healthy mindset when everyone has a cold reception to you. The Council were quite two faced with him and he could feel it.
so scary a lightsaber disigned as a weapon The irony is Sidious lightsaber was disigned as jewlery not use
As much as we all love Yoda... Dude is the perfect example of why old people shouldn't lead anyone. And before anyone disagrees, remember that Yoda basically came to the same conclusion after Order 66 and everything that came afterwards. He secluded himself away, not to protect himself; but others from himself. He realized the foolishness of his follies. The danger he brought upon so many, because of his own pride. Pride, that he told others to not have.
If Yoda, and through him Obi Wan as well, had just accepted that Anakin was not going to be their perfect Jedi, he probably would have not ended up a Sith in the first place. He would have become something closer to a Grey, not completely, but not Sith either.
Yoda, love him or hate him, is the perfect example of why pushing the idea of "why are you not like me or better than me" is a fools notion. He should have just accepted that some will take a different path than he has, and help them along the way instead of chastise them.
Post-Edit: It should also be said, that as per the lore of the Star Wars galaxy (as per I understand at least), The force as it were does not care how you live, or die; only that you live and die. Everything else is just a balancing act between opposing forces. If Yoda and the council had realized this far sooner, they wouldn't have made so many mistakes. They would have realized the corruption oozing around them, was coming from them.
It's interesting how much thought goes into the design after the fact when the original prop for this light saber was just a graflex camera arm. Very little thought went into the design, they just looked through someone's kit bag and pulled out the first thing that looked appropriately scifi
Hey, your lightsaber hilt looks like it's specifically built to accommodate and compliment your fighting style. That's taboo. It should be pretty and elegant instead. Every Jedi got slaughtered. They might have made it if their lightsaber hits were crafted better
1:27 “and take a deep dive”
Stupendous Wave is becoming RetroGamingNow
I was under the impression that the design of his new lightsaber was through a force vision when meditating.
Ani didn't even have his own lightsaber for the first duel with Dooku. He borrowed the green bladed one after his original got cut in half in the Geonosian droid factory. I wonder if that affected his duel with Dooku...
You know the more I think about the more I realize that the Jedi were so far removed from what they were suppose to be and Yoda himself is the best evidence of that.
What I mean is being the whole Light vs dark, both of which are highly subjective terms, it's the intention of the person that defines the words light and dark. So that being said Yoda's dismissal of the fact that jedi are warriors is clear as day and the reason the jedi order failed Anakin and many other Jedi. Mace Windu and others with a purple crystal seemed to understand that the Jedi code is more about walking that fine like of light AND dark, because that is the key our own individual paths, not to conform to defined standards, but to balance and define the light and darkness in ones self.
Yoda and majority of the council were honestly to blinded in their faith to realize that every Jedi is gonna be different. I really think Mace Windu should have been the one to work/guide Anakin
Besides there is clearly a different between a Jedi who's coucilmen/woman compared to a jedi knight/warrior
They made a simulation on Maul… based on probably video footage after the fight.
They can easily make a simulation based on Dooku = Archive footage from Dooku’s training days when he was a Jedi.
We are legislating "stupidity tests". That would be my #1 criteria. The people who can't assemble Christmas gifts.
This the video I couldn't wait for I always wanted to know what he did to make his second one
Another aspect of the tinker roots of Anakin was the modification of his lightsaber to be a "utility multitool" allowing adjustments to the blade all the way down in length and thickness to a fine utility knife. This was accomplished by incorporating a multi-crystal array into the hilt Controlled by those external knobs. Incorporating two crystals would permit modification of EITHER Length OR Thickness, while incorporating THREE allows adjustment of BOTH. (Splinter of the Mind's Eye)
If personalizing lightsabers was really that much of a problem, you'd think they'd throw away lightsabers in favor for more force powers
Yoda's hilt looks similar to Anakin's. His hilt was thicker and sturdier than others. He is a hypocrite and totally blind to it.
Yoda still had pretty thick hands/talons tho
Yeah, he was a different race so that might play a part in it.
I'm sorry but our favorite green goblin is just full of it on this one.
"Um, yes, Lightsaber, cut through anything, it can, best held hand weapon in galaxy, it is, a symbol of abnegation it is" - Yoda presumably?
I mean, come on, the lightsaber was always meant to be a weapon, if the jedi really wanted to prove their willingness to sacrifice themselves for their ideals they wouldn't carry one at all (like master Fay) or would carry some kind of strictly non-lethal weapon, instead they carried one of the most lethal weapons in the galaxy, taking shit with Anakin just because he went "Okay fine, If I have to use this weapon, and it looks like I'm going to have to use it a lot, given the whole WAR thing that just started, I'll make it the best damn weapon I can" is just being petty and silly.
From how it sounds, yeah, a saber with a wider blade for defense and sturdier hilt for heavy blows worked out quite well after Vader ended up in the suit and his fighting style got slower and stiffer.
I'm still amazed no one ever made a shield out of a lightsaber emitter. Just fan the blade out 180 degrees.
"Obi Won, I dont like the sink drain look. I'm going to go with the flash handle look with an uncomfortable handle."
Rewatching the Prequels.
The Jedi were borderline abussive to Anakin from day 1. Told a scared cold little boy step by step how his fear would lead to the Darkside then let it happen. Even to the bitter end Anakin was loyal turned in the only person who ever listened to him, to Windu, Palpatine was a Sith. Mace's response: yelled in his face he didn't trust, or have confidence in him, but if he wasn't a liar then he would.
At least the Sith own what they are, laugh diabolically about what evil maniacs they are. Except for Vader the trauma from the Jedi robbed him of enjoying that too.
Palpatine exploited Anakin's desire to be treated humanely to use him as a pawn to destroy the Jedi and rule the galaxy.
Even when Palpatine did succeed, he probably treated Anakin(as Darth Vader) as a slave as well.
Windu wasn't the only one that listened to him, Mace was an asshole, Qui Gon was the one who cared about Anakin.
i've never heard anything as technical as this
Anakin: *Sighs loudly*
Next video: “Why Anakin Breathing Made the Jedi Council Nervous.”
Still funny to think that Annakin was the chosen one to bring balance to the force and Obi Wan is upset he didn't, yet in their time the Sith were practically extinct, so having one of the strongest force users fall to the dark side actually did help balance
This video is amazing soo many new things I never knew about the lightsaber and purpose of construction alone I didn’t know it could be manipulated in so many ways
It is the Jedi fault Anakin fell to the Darkside!...🤣
Their Limited view of Lightside frustrated Anakin...🤯
They didn't know how to properly train themselve in the lightside of the Force. Not all emotions lead to the Darkside!...🤔
Their dogmatic view of the Force caused the fall of their order!...😪
Too bad they weren't more like Qui-Gon Jinn! He had a more in depth view into the Lightside then even the Grand Master! No wonder Sideous was afraid of him! Sideous was right! The Jedi Lightside Dogmatic view of the Force was wrong and that's why their order fell to order 66!
Forgot to install a blade length adjustment feature. Forgot to install an auxiliary blaster. Didn't use a portable shield generator in combat. No gauntlets made of cortosis/mandalorian iron to prevent hands being chopped off.
Low marks from me.
Anakin's 2nd lightsaber design is one of my favorite hilts ever in star wars.
Me & Anakin have the similar mentality when it comes to battles , views on life & style of character. ✅️
This add a lot of to the scene in episode 2 when obi wan says this weapon is your life
OMG!!!!! So many rules with the jedi. I feel like sneezing loud around them would make them think I'm venturing into the dark side. I'm glad that I made a red lightsaber when I went to Disney lmao
First time watching one of your videos, this was really cool ! Did Luke like his father's Saber? Did he keep any of the things when he built his green one ?
They can grip a force choke or a mango on a fork so gently a loved one could take a tasty nibble... but not a lightsaber unless it is knurled or properly thick? I mean ... Yeah I guess
I still say his first lightsaber hilt was better than the second one. That's why as Vader his hilt design fell back on the first hilt design with the bulky feel of the second hilt, making Vader's hilt truly ideal for him in respects to the first, and second hilts.
I've heard that the girth and ridges on my hilt are quite disarming as well
Yoda's concern doesn't make sense? I mean, the Republic is at war, you can't be nice to your adversary on battlefield. They're trying to kill you.
Funny how there is all this detailed reasoning for every inch of a prop made out of a camera flash handle.
the younglingslayer9000 is the perfect lightsaber
It’s weird, losing limbs is meant to make them weaker, but every time Anakin has lost limbs he’s only become stronger.
I think the faact vader’s lightsaber is just a thicker version of his Padawan lightsaber is a good homage to the fact Vader likes to torture himself with his mistakes
Listening to saber design decisions is like listening to children describe what their imaginary tools do.
Nothing based on reality .. but it sounds cute and interesting with how enthusiastic they are.
Instead of helping jedi's with theses emotions, they've just shunned the idea of the emotions. The jedi's would've been more balanced if they have taught them how to mediate with the emotions.
The most interesting part about this is the only thing Anakin changed in his lightsaber when he became death Vader was the crystal. He took his old hilt (self) with him. Rebuilding the hilt would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.