[malcontentman]

The light saber makes sense. A lot of swords have hand guards so that the blade of the opponent does not slides down the length of the blade and chop your hands off, so the only effective type of hand guard for a lightsaber blade would need to also be a lightsaber beam. My gripe is not with concept though, but rather with the execution. They could have made it look cooler. Either way though, I know Abrams won't disappoint... that is until he actually does one day. Hopefully, the day Ep. VII is released will not be that day.