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When it comes to fighting against Jedi, the Sith and their ilk seem to have a very careless disregard for paying attention to weapons that have been left laying around. In the Phantom Menace Obi-Wan finishes off Darth Maul with his master's discarded lightsaber. General Grievous is likewise not paying attention to the blaster on the floor of the landing platform when Obi-Wan Force grabs it to shoot him in his exposed chest in The Revenge of the Sith. Perhaps most careless of all is Supreme Leader Snoke in The Last Jedi who just casually places Rey's lightsaber on the side of his throne only to have Kylo Ren turn it around and switch it on, using the Force to assassinate Snoke so easily that the scene is barely credible. The Sith and their allies definitely need to be a little bit more mindful of the Force so it seems.

If we contrast Snoke's defeat to the initiation of the final duel scene in The Return of the Jedi, Palpatine is very aware that Luke will make a grab for the lightsaber next to him and actively goads him in to doing so. Snoke on the other hand just absentmindedly puts it to one side and doesn't have any of the guile of Palpatine when it comes to manipulating the situation. Like Palpatine he has both his apprentice and a young Jedi standing before him and the air is thick with the prospect of a conflict playing itself out between them (especially when we remember how such conflicts played out in both The Revenge of the Sith and The Return of the Jedi).

When it comes to actually losing lightsabers (rather than just leaving them laying around) though Anakin Skywalker has by far the highest count. In The Attack of the Clones he loses his lightsaber no less than three times; once during the Zam Wesell chase, once at the Droid Factory on Geonosis and once during the duel with Count Dooku. Whilst on the one hand this is a series of misfortunes, on the other hand it happens in a movie in which we repeatedly see glimpses of Anakin's susceptibility to the Dark Side. In fact, Anakin's separation from his lightsaber is in many ways symbolic of his leaving the Jedi order. Obi-Wan takes Anakin's lightsaber with him following the duel on Mustafar and this (just as much as Anakin pledging himself to Palpatine) symbolically indicates that he is no longer a Jedi. Then the baton is (literally) passed on to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope when Obi-Wan gives him his father's lightsaber and encourages him to become a Jedi. Thus, when we see Luke casually fling his lightsaber over his shoulder in The Last Jedi when Rey tries to present him with it, we know immediately that this represents his rejection of the Jedi Order before we are told as much. Luke will not take up the call a second time and because he rejects the Jedi without having joined the Sith we see a fundamental paradigm shift in the Star Wars universe which is to have Jedi powers without being one or the other. There is now a third way so it seems.

Palpatine had been a master of deliberately making himself look vulnerable and putting himself in vulnerable positions in order to exploit a situation and to turn events to fit with his overall plan. He does this as a supposed prisoner aboard Grievous's flagship in The Revenge of the Sith, he does it in the throne room duel with Mace Windu and he does it when he goads Luke to strike him down in The Return of the Jedi (knowing that Vader will intervene). Snoke by contrast lacks any such Machiavellian wiles, and this so it turns out makes him a much less formidible opponent.

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