Blaster or Lightsaber?

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Blaster or Lightsaber?

(Just remember that the Lightsaber comes with an extra helping of the Force)

[mcctatas]

1. Blaster...

I like to inflict harm from a safe distance ;)

[Bryan]

2. Lightsaber

It's not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. It's also very handy in the kitchen.

[laconicsax]

3. Lightsaber of course.

The choice is really between something for shooting stuff and something that is many times more useful.

[Shardik]

4. Puts me in mind of when Indiana Jones faced off the Baddie with the saber.

And we all know who won.

[Danger Mouse]

6. Who won when Han Solo tried to shoot Darth Vader with a blaster?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Shardik]

10. Blame George Lucas. See South Park on what he and Stephen S. Did to Indie. n/t

:)

[Danger Mouse]

11. George Lucas is a douche.

I'm just sayin, though, Darth Vader stopped blaster fire with his HAND. I think a Jedi or a Sith Lord has some advantages over a random swarthy guy who can do a few tricks with a sword.

[SoxFan]

5. Lightsaber, no contest

What clinched it? That scene in "The Phantom Menace" where Qui-Gon started sawing his way through the blast door on the trade fed cruiser. It's not just an elegant weapon, it's a galactic Gerber tool

[Danger Mouse]

7. A lightsaber + the Force FTW.

You won't kill a Jedi 1 vs. 1 with a blaster. Unless you're a Fett.

[petronius]

8. Apparently, the light saber makes you invincible if you're Luke, Yoda,

Obi-wan, or Darth (the rest of the saber-wavers seemed like pretty juicy blaster targets). Since I'm not one of those dudes, give me a blaster...

Or even better, since I live in reality-world and not nerd-fantasy-world, I'll take something along the lines of an AR-15 or a P220 or a baseball bat. :P

[Danger Mouse]

9. Episode III was stupid.

[petronius]

13. That's a non-debatable fact, of course!

However, if we limit our analysis to episodes IV - VI, it still remains that there is a non-trivial absence of saber-users aside from the ones mentioned. It's possible that they all died of old age, or were each individually felled by Vader in saber-on-saber combat, but logic suggests that in fact it was blaster-on-saber combat that eradicated most of the Jedi. Ergo, I choose a blaster. :)

[Danger Mouse]

15. Well, even in Episode III most of the Jedi were done in by being shot in the back...

by many, many people at once.

[YankeyMCC]

12. If it's just a question of a a deadly fight

I'll take the blaster...but the Light saber is the better all around handy tool ;)

[Deja Q]

14. Blaster!