It’s certainly a relevant question, especially when so many people were hashtagging #ignitethegreen. Why did Luke Skywalker use his father’s blue lightsaber on Crait, keeping Kylo Ren occupied so the remnants of the Resistance had a chance to escape?
IGN had the chance to ask director Rian Johnson the question, and he had a perfectly rational answer.
“[Luke] is basically tailoring this projection to have maximum effect on Kylo. He knows that Kylo’s Achilles heel is his rage, and so that’s why he kind of makes himself look younger, the way Kylo would’ve last seen him in their confrontation at the temple, and that’s why he decided to bring Kylo’s grandfather’s lightsaber down there — the lightsaber that Kylo screamed at Rey, ‘that’s mine, that belongs to me.’”
Good point, but wasn’t that lightsaber torn asunder by Rey and Kylo during their confrontation in Snoke’s throne room?
“We as an audience saw that… The truth is, we see the lightsaber split in half — Kylo sees a blinding flash of light and is knocked unconscious, and then Rey takes the lightsaber away before he wakes up. So if you really want to dig into it and get an explanation, you can say that he doesn’t 100 percent know what happened to the lightsaber.”
