"...the weapon of a Jedi Knight, not as clumsy or random as a blaster, an elegant weapon..." -Ben Kenobi

The weapon of a Jedi Knight? Would that go for all Jedi?

The question is, can lightsabers sense their surroundings? Yeah, sounds dumb, but listen.

In Episode II, Obi-Wan and Anakin are given lightsabers in the Geonosis arena. But, they aren't their own, and they both lose in their fight against Dooku, they fail horribly. You could blame this on their lack of experience, or on the lightsabers. The more I watch Star Wars, the more I get the feeling that, in a way, the lightsaber can sense things. No, not seeing, and smelling but, that it can sense their surroundings. That they can sense when their owners are holding them, and that with their individual owners, the Jedi and lightsaber is a team. Does it not seem that in the Clone Wars animated series, when Windu loses his lightsaber, that the saber itself is searching for him? And is it not obvious that once Windu retrieves his saber that he is much more at ease?

When using his own saber in Episode III, Anakin can easily kill Dooku, but not with the replacement that he gets in Episode II. And back to the Clone Wars, Luminara Unduli is telling her padawan how to make a lightsaber. In it, she seems to hint at the fact that she and her lightsaber, are one.

It would even seem that a Jedi has a bond with his or her lightsaber, that when they are apart, they are sad.

Or maybe I'm just trying to sympathize with a non-living thing. I dunno, but that fact just kinda jumped out at me one day. It just seems to me that when a Jedi goes into combat with his own lightsaber, he fights better. And that the lightsaber can sense when its master is holding it.

No profanity please.

May the Force be with us all! God bless!