SPOILER About that Object In Space...

But the lightsaber is....dead?

Seriously, good thread idea!

The role of the lightsaber is symbolical .

It was what bridged the PT and the OT together, it'll bridge the OT and the ST.

A master looses it and give it to his padawan, the excalibur of the Star Wars Saga.

It must be the blue one, Anakin's last Jedi saber, and it will end up in Rey's hand at the end of the Episode.

 

Well 2 things we learned so far:

From Attack of the Clones, a Lightsaber can easily be broken (In the droid factory).
Vader's last saber probably was still onboard the Death Star when it exploded.

Luke's blue saber probably fell somewhere inside Cloud City, not necesseraly in a vent. Maybe it was picked up by a Cloud City visitor (they were having a blast in Cloud City after the victory)

Maybe someone found Luke's hand and saber and kept it as a souvenir.

 

Would be funny if the hand was then put in carbonite.

TFA's ending:

Rey brings the saber and the hand to Luke.

- here, it thing it belongs to you
- Oh gee, thanks Rey! Keep the saber, and I'll get my hand reattached.

Anti-Luke-as-a-cyborg theory.

 

The last time we see Anakin's saber in Empire we get no impression that there is anything below Luke but the planet itself. However if they are intent on using the lightsaber they would have to have some kind of explanation like above. Somehow it gets lodged somewhere and someone finds it. How it gets back to Tatooine and why everyone wants it is beyond me. Someone could carry it and perhaps that ship is destroyed in a space battle outside tatooine and the saber falls to the surface. Why it doesn't burn up, I don't know? The whole thing is a bit farfetched and seems to be not worth the effort. However someone finding it and bringing it somewhere is light years better than the damn thing floating in space for 30 years and landing on Tatooine a journey that would likely take a million years, not thirty.

 

You forgot your hashtag
#AntiLukeAsACyborg

 

What if the first shot is a tight close-up of the floating saber, and then it pans out to a massive space battle above Rey's desert planet wherein starfighters are blasting a disintegrating star destroyer with debris ejecting from the wreck? The saber is just another piece of space-junk. That would put Poe, Kylo, Rey in the same place, and tie (no pun intended) a lot of the rumors together (e.g. the monster ship the Falcon gets sucked into is huge, vulture-like scavenger vessel).

 

Probably someone that has it and his ship is getting blasted.

 

The saber in space and floating probably really means...it is on a ship.

Falls to the ground means...the ship crashes and the saber lands somewhere.

If a hand is involved it was orobably clutching it whomever was piloting the ship like...Kylo

 

If after the crawl I see a hand floating in space clutching a light saber, I will feel insulted. If, as a viewer, I'm expected to buy into the fact that somehow that is a logical occurance, all bets are off. I should then have no problem accepting that jar jar is uber and lando contracted Benjamin button disease and IS Finn. And glee son is the love child of obiwan and padme, conceived and borne unbeknownst to anakin who went to that plantet that one time for two weeks. Sly is Fett...all of it


No, man...just no...

 

So if you want us to "speculate" why did you mark the thread for "spoiler" clicks maybe.

 

It's spoiler so people who want to avoid spoilers won't click on it.

 

But we are speculating not spoiling. By that token every article should be marked as spoiler.

 

The Lightsaber falling from space thing is considered a spoiler. Some people who are not reading all the rumors and leaks may not know about it.