Heh. I didn't realise I was 'supposed to' attack the flying sabers, so I just went straight for Kreia. I was a Guardian/Weaponmaster, I think she went down in a couple of Flurries, maybe three. I didn't take significant damage from her flying sabers.
I was then terribly disappointed this was the ultimate fight the whole game had been building up to.
EDIT: Oh, and to stay at least slightly on-topic, I can't see any clear advantages by boing Consular, except more potent Force powers (i.e. that they are harder to resist, so every puny thug doesn't Will save against them - I hate that).
With my Weaponmaster mentioned above I never ran out of Force points in the later stages of the game, and using other Jedi in my party to cast defensive powers in the middle stages, it was only in the very beginning I was short on Force points. And being a good melee/saber fighter I didn't miss them.
So I guess in the end it's just down to taste, how you like the class-specific feats and powers etc.
Wow, this ended up being longer than my original post, why didn't I just type this straight away...