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[Clueless Morgan]

If qui gonn's skull was thicker the impact with the handled might have made no difference,  but Imagine if maul banged the cross guard into qui gonn's forehead.

Regardless of the thickness of one's skull, if you smack them in the nose with a hard object you're going to stun them. And Maul's face-hit wasn't the kill stroke, it was the prelude to the kill stroke; Qui Gon could just as easily have gone down with a deft slash of a regular saber or after Maul whacks him in the face with the butt of a regular saber. Whereas if you engage in a saber fight with with the stupid-cross-guard saber you can do everything you can with a regular saber, and it may give you a slight edge in very particular situations involving close combat, but you also increase the risk of inadvertently injuring yourself during the battle.

Regarding the danger, if the force lets one feel where a laser bolt coming at speed of light would strike and block it, wouldn't you think it would also let one feel where the wayward cross guard, coming at much less than speed of light, would be and keep vital parts out of its way?

Wouldn't the force keep any Jedi from ever getting killed because they could sense where an incoming strike from their opponent is coming from? But Jedi's still get killed by light sabers.

Translation:  light saber duels are so ridiculous no additional amount of ridiculousness will hurt them.

The addition of ridiculously unnecessary features to an already good weapon will hurt saber duels.