I thought a lot of it was great, but like many people, I'm really not fond of the lightsaber cross-guard design featured. Unlike most of those people though, the way I feel about it has nothing to do with whether or not it's practical, useful, or even possible within the scientific logic of Star Wars.
Have you ever had a friend who started trying too hard to be seen as cool, and even though their affectations may have impressed others, you actually thought they were a lot cooler when they were just being themselves and weren't trying to impress everyone?
The "what haven't we done with the lightsaber yet?" trend reminds me of that. Characters having multiple lightsabers, lightsabers having multiple blades, lightsaber staffs, lightsaber nunchakus, Wolverine-esque lightsaber claws, helicopters with lightsaber rotor blades, etc.
You know what's really cool? A regular lightsaber. And I think that scene would have been cooler if it just had one of those.
Maybe I'll change my mind after seeing it in the context of the movie.
