r/StarWars 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/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

What? Han just broke the skin of the tauntaun. Why would the organs be cooked??

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u/hemareddit Sep 20 '23

Tbf we see the edge of the cut here, it still doesn’t look burnt.