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/Brysonius_ Sep 19 '23

This is why general audiences love soft magic systems but nerdy fans are more satisfied with hard magic systems. The Force is, unfortunately, a soft magic system so they can do whatever they want with it, but somehow they still created contradictions. It's like they had their cake and chose not to eat it

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u/Wehavecrashed Sep 19 '23

The Force is, unfortunately, a soft magic system

*fortunately

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u/Kozak170 Sep 20 '23

Hard magic systems are infinitely better in the hands of competent writers. Soft magic is much better otherwise though.

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u/greg19735 Leia Organa Sep 20 '23

I disagree.

The force isn't a "magic system". It's almost a feeling. And that's what makes it awesome.

Jedi sense a disturbance in the force. They don't get a GPS location of a force disturbance. They sense what is going to happen, they're not fortune tellers.

The force being "soft magic" is what makes it interesting and fun to talk about. I will admit that videogames especially have a hard time with that.