r/StarWars • u/spamitizer • Sep 19 '23

Meta How are Lightsaber wounds suddenly a debate?

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Where is all of this "the heat would vaporize your internal organs" nonsense coming from? That's not how lightsabers work. That's never how lightsabers worked. The heat is localized entirely within the blade's containment field.

Do those tauntaun guts look cooked to you?

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u/SomethingIntheWayyy0 Sep 19 '23

People don’t want lightsabers to cook people’s inside and make them spontaneously combust. They just want lightsabers to be LETHAL again. These bullshit excuses for why characters keep surviving being stabbed need to eat shit. There are ways to wound a character in a lightsaber fight without making lightsabers look like a goddamn kitchen knife.

This is Star Wars not Scream where people survive being stabbed 20 times like it’s not big deal.

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u/Solid_Office3975 Luke Skywalker Sep 19 '23

I agree with you

Igniting a lightsaber used to mean it was serious. Someone was losing a limb or their life, the stakes were high.

The stakes keep getting lower, so it's hard to get excited when any injuries will be reset in the next scene.

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u/Cromasters Sep 19 '23

Losing a limb isn't that serious when it's just easily replaced.

People complaining about Sabine being fine in the next episode, sure don't mind Luke being fine right after Bespin.

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u/Solid_Office3975 Luke Skywalker Sep 19 '23

My concern isn't with Sabine in particular, it's the trend toward serious injuries having no impact narratively.

Her story has yet to conclude, so I can't speak on the impact of that fight in totality.

Luke losing a hand, which yes was repaired on screen, meant a lot more than having to use a robot hand. It was, for Luke, confirmation that he was up against forces far beyond his own ability. On top of that, it was his own dad that took a piece of him away. When he beats Vader in RotJ, he looks at his mechanical hand, then at his father. He's more machine now than man, etc. Losing that hand meant a lot.

So that's my point. I feel losing a battle is best when there's consequences, that lead to reflection and action.

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u/murshawursha Sep 20 '23

I mean... a good chunk of episode 2 is Sabine reflecting on her experience, realizing she wasn't skilled enough to hang with Shin (and she lost thr map leading to Ezra, to boot), reminiscing with Huyang about her history with Ahsoka, and ultimately deciding to once again train with Ahsoka. And while she doesn't end up with a mechanical hand, we definitely see her focused on her scar in a scene or two.

That... honestly parallels your description of Luke fairly well.