On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years.
The “mass” question always makes me think about the choreography. In the original trilogy, they swing like heavy props.
In the original trilogy they really do swing like heavy props — do you think that “weight” is meant to be actual blade mass, or more like the hilt’s field/gyroscopic resistance fighting direction changes? I might be wrong here.
In the OT the swings really do read like “kendo with a real prop, ” so I get why people assume the glowing part has mass, but is there anything in canon that points to it being more like hilt/field resistance (gyroscopic weirdness) instead of the blade being a literal heavy stick?
