If there was another moment that blew my mind when I was first saw Star Wars when I was 10 years old, it was this scene:
Actually, it challenged my brain more than blew my mind.
HOW WAS SUCH A WEAPON POSSIBLE?!?!
I didn’t recall seeing a laser sword of any kind up to that point in my limited viewing of science fiction material.
That’s probably when I realized just how advanced things were in a galaxy far, far away.
Well, and droids. And spaceships.
But a lightsaber?
Probably one of the reasons I identified with Han instead of Luke.
Ranged combat vs. Melee combat.
Which carries over to this day, preferring a blaster to a scrapper in City of Heroes, for example.
I’m continually, subconsciously influenced by a movie from 1977.
Though nowadays I do prefer to play a paladin-type. Not quite a Jedi, but close.