Weird stuff in Star Wars?

[Andrew NDB]

It occurred to me there is a lot of really weird things in Star Wars that are sort of just brushed off by casual fans but stand out as pretty weird when you stand back and look at it from afar.

A couple of things:

* Droids' AI. From C3PO-level droids to the smallest, stupidest droids (like the pit droids), they ALL seem to gifted with full, sentient AI, right out of the box. With unique and complex personalities, moods, etc.. And this is never so much as even mentioned anywhere, ever. Why is this a thing? Is it by design (and if so, by who? is "the maker" an actual thing?) or accidental? And is this even a good idea?

* "Lightspeed." There's so many mentions of "we need to make the jump to lightspeed" or "going into lightspeed now" or "OK, making the jump to light!" But we know that it CAN'T be lightspeed, not if it's to make any sense. Like, even if we developed a drive that could enable us to travel at lightspeed tomorrow, it'd take us 5 years to get to our nearest star system. Yet you have stuff like Anakin traveling from Coruscant to Tatooine in like an hour.

* Lightsabers. So it's like "hard light," yes? About as hot as the sun, able to quickly cut through any metal surface quickly, but "stops" if it hits another lightsaber? I can think of several things wrong with that right off the bat.