Is it though?

This is one of my big problems with The Last Jedi – I don’t think these objects are as significant (in either universe) as Rian Johnson thinks.

Who, beyond diehard Star Wars fans could tell one lightsaber apart from another, or would even know Anakin and Luke wielded the same blade? Nor does the weapon hold much significance in the original trilogy. When Luke is severed from it – along with his hand – in Empire, there is no scene of him mourning its loss, or returning to Bespin to find it. In fact he doesn’t give it a second thought, he just builds a new one. Yet Johnson always wants to have it both ways: he loves rubbing Star Wars fans noses in it, telling them to let go of the past, and that the Force is much more than just the Jedi and temples and lightsabers and sword fighting; yet he also treats the lightsaber with incredible significance, as though it’s more important than the Force itself. Rey and Kylo fight over it in a way Luke and Vader never would, and Rey cradles the broken pieces as though they’re religious artefacts.

And don’t even get me started on Han’s dice from the Falcon. “What dice? The Falcon had dice?” muttered the audience. The only people who would have understood that reference (which had, up to The Last Jedi, exactly zero significance) are precisely the same people Johnson openly admits he set out to annoy. His film is a clunker, and rotten to the core.