I started thinking because I can't sleep. The blade, I mean, the hilt obviously has to weigh something.
Cause it's in the name, right? [u]Light[/u]-saber. Light doesn't weigh anything(or its mass is so little that it really doesn't matter). Then I remembered hearing that the blade is superheated plasma or something, does that have a significant weight to it?
I see Obi-Wan and Anakin fight in episode 3 and they move so fast I assume their weapons are weightless. Now Kylo Ren fights Rey in TFA, his swings look pretty heavy. Or at least it looks like he puts a little power behind them.
[i]And then[/i] I remember hearing that the blades weren't entirely special effects in the movie. They were physical and lit up about as bright as they are on-screen, on set. So maybe his swings look that way because the [i]prop[/i] is heavy-ish?
Someone help.
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Edited by Smarkdow: 1/5/2016 12:21:19 AMTo answer from a production standpoint, for the original trilogy, Lucas intended for lightsabers to have a bit of weight to them, or at least function like real-life swords. The actual props were heavy, which is why the fights were more like fencing matches as opposed to the overly choreographed, emotionless light shows depicted in the prequels. Force Awakens harkens back to the OT in this regard.