Dooku's Sabre

I just keep wondering what that pointy piece would do.. maybe it would cause the blade to flatten..I don't know.

It runs parrallel to the centre core of the sabre. It would be inside the glow but not the core, which as I say may reveal some more about how a sabre works.

I'm convinced that lightsabres are based on force field technology, with the energy being contained in a field in a similar way that blaster bolts are deflected by shields. If that piece of metal had the effect of bending the field's course (mass spectrometer, cathode ray tube style), it could account for a scimiter shaped blade which fans out slightly. Still think it will look ridiculous though.

hmm i can't see the point of coming on a 'discussion' board if you think there is no real info to discuss about episode 2 and 3.

Does anyone else think that that sketch lacks elegance?

Firstly there IS proof that it is Dooku's saber.

Secondly, the blade is straight. Straight and long. If you watch the recently leaked stolen EpII footage you get a glimse of it at around 1.00 in.

Dooku will rock.

Well, I'm not doubting that Dooku's saber is similar..just this exact design.

Do we really know that Dooku will use a saber?

(Sorry, haven't read any of the leaked scripts cos I think they probably all BS)

Well, of course we don't know..he may very well not. But I'm guessing that GL will leave force lightening to Palpatine.

But we can't even be certain that Dooku will do any fighting at all.

If we ignore the "scripts"

Certain, no, but if that's not Dooku holding a red sabre opposite to Anakin in that earlier select shot I will be extremely surprised.

Well, I haven't seen anything to make me think that yet.

Well, I can't prove anything of course, but we have some good indicators- and this is from sceptical old me...

The guy is holding a red sabre and is wearing black. Two good indicators that he is a big bad guy. And it LOOKED like they were posing before or during a fight.

Now, it is highly likely that Christopher Lee is playing a bad guy, for a lot of reasons. COULD be an enormous bluff, of course...

And if he is a bad guy, it is likely he is the new bad guy sabre opponent as well- it is very difficult to see what else he could be- presumably making him Sidious' new apprentice, presumably making him Darth Tyrannous (assuming that name is true, of course).

So, if Lee is playing the new Darth, and that pic is also of the new Darth, wielding a sabre, we have a direct link. Granted, this is hardly conclusive proof, but it's a strong pointer.

Mind you, if someone gave me a good reason why it couldn't be so, it would not be the greatest surprise I ever recieved.

It does follow, but there's a hell of a lot of supposition in there.

There is, yes, and I'm certainly not pushing this as fact, but as my assumptions about Episode II go, that is one of the ones I am more comfortable with.

Well, with the detail, I don't think it's too much to assume..it doesn't give a whole lot away.

Oh I agree Ush. My wrry here is that a lot of people, fandom wide, have their hearts set on this Dooku battle that might never happen.

Remember, even though Select pictures are 100% official, we have no idea what they really are or why GL is showing them to us. Everyone assumes that the strange ones are just manipulated from what we will see in the film, we could be very wrong. In addition, as I remember, the duel select picture was taken very early on, and the fights were nearly the last scenes to be filmed.

Yes, that kind of proofs the point that we don't have any real "offical" information of the Dooku battle..other than that one..and honestly, that could have been someone else.

Everyone says that pic is a Duel, could be Anakin going to the can!