User blog comment:Dorkpool/Lightsabers and Dinosaurs/@comment-25624120-20141202155239

I think, with regards to the new lightsaber, the crossguard is a brilliant idea. It's a fundamental part of almost any real world sword and the purpose is to stop an opponent from cutting your hand off. The problem for me is that it points out that every other lightsaber had this glaring flaw the whole time....then again roughly 1000 people get their hands cut off during the course of the six star wars movies. The design of the crossguard itself is flawed, but the idea of it, I think, is brilliant. If your making the point that you'll cut yourself on the crossguard well... don't conventional lightsabers have that problem with the main blade anyway as they often don't have much of a barrier stopping the wielder from slipping. The creation of the new dinosaur plays on the themes of the Jurassic park novels about mixing capitalism and science and experimenting for the sake of it. I think they create the super-dino because the Jurassic world theme park is starting to get stale and they need to create something new to wow the visitors (which obviously goes wrong). As for CGI, at least the star wars trailer didn't look like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng&list=TLDx-l5PG9eAY