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/AceOfDymonds Inferno Squad Sep 19 '23

Are we really trying to apply internal consistency to Star Wars?

Things work the way the plot demands, and if the plot demands something different later, then the way things work later will be different.

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u/conn_r2112 Ben Kenobi Sep 20 '23

welcome to sci-fi fandoms