Why does the Star Wars realm refer to Darth Mauls weapon as a Double Ended Light!
Question: A Saber is a small bladed sword with only one cutting edge. Not a weapon of two blades. To my mind Darth Mauls' weapon should be call a Light Quarterstaff
Answers: A Saber is a small bladed sword with only one cutting edge. Not a weapon of two blades. To my mind Darth Mauls' weapon should be call a Light Quarterstaff
I actually agree with you... However, My husband is a Star Wars nut(he even has an online game that is text based that he used to run, stopped, and is starting again) An he insists that it is correctly named because it is a light saber on both ends therefore a double ended light saber.... I still agree with you though...
Double ended and not double edged. They didn't want to confuse the audience too much, most of them wouldn't have known what a quarter staff was. Besides, it doesn't sound 'cool'... Its always been lightsabre and they wanted to stick with what they knew rather than throw in a new kind of weapon.
I guess they wanted to make the difference between the old one with blade on one side only and the new one with a blade on each side of the handle.
The old light saber is not a saber exactly. The light doesn't have edges. It doesn't cut though stuff either...
I don't agree with the other answer that they didn't want to confuse the audience. If that were the intention, they wouldn't have made a complex story line with a complex production and elaborated performances as the precedent of a light comedy with almost no story, cheap 70's production and overacted performances.
That's confussing!
First, I think you are confusing double ended with double edged. The double ended lightsaber is called such because the lightsaber blades pop out on both ends not because it has two different cutting blades. There are also a couple of scenes that show where the double ended lightsabre can be used as a single bladed lightsaber, so it makes perfect sense that they would call it a lightsaber since it is in fact a lightsaber just like the ones shown 20 years earlier.
Second, there are various forms of sabre blades and the lightsaber blade looks exactly like a much fatter version of a fencing sabre blade which is straight and round with no cutting edge just like the lightsabre. So I think it is more likely that George Lucas named it after that blade rather than the old cavalry sabres or whatever else you are thinking of. This is a bad picture of a fencing sabre but it is all I could find to
illustrate my point:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006Q9CIO/ref=...
Last, a quarterstaff can't cut through anything so I don't see why anybody would call a cutting weapon a quarterstaff. Unless you can show me a quarterstaff that can cut through Droids, Luke and Vader's arms, Darth Maul's body, the blast doors or anything else that the lightsabre was shown slicing in half, I would have to disagree completely with your choice of names.