Of all the striking visual elements that Star Wars presented us with, none caught the popular imagination like the lightsaber. The unlikely offspring of the Age of Chivalry and a plasma cutter seized people's imaginations and, once digital editing became cheap enough for consumers, lightsaber fights—a distillation of drama down to the bare basics—were a popular subject for fan films. Let's take a look at three notable ones.

It's only been a couple months since I first wrote about Kickstarter, but there's been a lot happening lately that makes me think that it's already time for a revisit.