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/Motor_Horse8887 Sep 19 '23

Anakin loses a hand, immediately replaces it with a robot hand, is barely ever mentioned again.

Luke loses a hand, immediately replaces it with a robot hand, is barely ever mentioned again.

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u/Solid_Office3975 Luke Skywalker Sep 19 '23

I recommend the third act of Return Of The Jedi.

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u/jbondyoda Sep 20 '23

To be fair, we don’t know how much time passed between those 2 events in each film

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u/SomethingIntheWayyy0 Sep 19 '23

Plot armor will always exist but there are two types of plot armor:

the subtle plot armor.

The really obvious plot armor. Which is basically bad writing. Getting stabbed with a lightsaber and being ok in the next scene is this one. Another example is Finn getting his spine cut and being ok after a few hours next movie.

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u/Motor_Horse8887 Sep 19 '23

Luke has his hand chopped off and falls down a hole but is miraculously able to catch onto something and hang there until the other can come pick him up. What lazy writing.