Vader just Cut Luke's Arm off...Where's the gushing blood?

MadBadger

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Sun Nov-28-10 11:57 PM
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Vader just Cut Luke's Arm off...Where's the gushing blood?

Noooooooooooooooo

Watching Empire strikes back on Spike. Staying up for Return of the Jedi from 12-3? Maybe...

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eShirl

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Mon Nov-29-10 12:54 AM
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1. the amazing light saber, cauterizes as it cleaves

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sakabatou

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Mon Nov-29-10 02:21 AM
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3. Yup

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jobycom

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:42 PM
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8. Absolutely. I thought that was quite clear from the context.

Not to mention that the whole cauterized-wound thing was a big theme in sci-fi and film at the time, so we all understood it.

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Old Troop

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Mon Nov-29-10 07:51 PM
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9. Wasn't there an infomercial about that?

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Rabrrrrrr

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Mon Nov-29-10 01:42 AM
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2. Oh, for Christ's sake - the light saber is an energy weapon. It cauterizes.

Edited on Mon Nov-29-10 01:46 AM by Rabrrrrrr

That was shown repeatedly in all the movies*, and always implied.

* except in the very first movie, Episode IV, in the cantina scene, when Obi Wan cuts off the arm of Panda Boba and it is shown on the floor bleeding. Other than that, it has ALWAYS been the truth that light sabers cauterize wounds. if one is willing to forgo that the first time the light saber showed up, it didn't cauterize.

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unpossibles

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Mon Nov-29-10 07:32 AM
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4. maybe those particular aliens have a special kind of blood

which is heat resistant?

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NewJeffCT

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Tue Nov-30-10 12:57 PM
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14. but, while

the arm on the floor is bleeding, the remaining stump is not.

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CBGLuthier

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Mon Nov-29-10 08:12 AM
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5. Arm? I do believe the injury was along the wrist

making the hand the object that was lost.

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MorningGlow

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Mon Nov-29-10 08:33 AM
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6. They guys from Monty Python used it all up in their movies. n/t

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A HERETIC I AM

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Wed Dec-01-10 12:20 AM
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17. They used a large portion of it up in "Salad Days"

Edited on Wed Dec-01-10 12:21 AM by A HERETIC I AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcrreUVBeo&NR=1

"I say. Anyone for tennis?"

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rcrush

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Mon Nov-29-10 04:45 PM
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7. First time seeing Star Wars?

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edbermac

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Mon Nov-29-10 08:02 PM
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10. He uses the Force to control the blood flow.

Jedi can use the Mind Trick to influence weaker minded people and they can move objects using the Force.
So it stands to reason they can use the Force to not bleed.

Now answer this:

Where the hell are the bathrooms on Star Trek? All those movies and TV spinoffs and I've never seen
one goddamn toilet.

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Orrex

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Mon Nov-29-10 10:15 PM
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12. That sounds so dirty. I like it!

And every time they zip through a Transporter, the Heisenberg Compensators filter out all of the shit.

Duh.

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NuttyFluffers

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Wed Dec-01-10 03:30 AM
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18. it's next to the food maker. matter needs to be recycled and all...

waste not, want not -- especially if you can recombine an ice cream sundae from the chemical leavings of last night's bender.

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Orrex

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Mon Nov-29-10 09:59 PM
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11. I'd accept those bogus answers about cauterizing, but what about the poor bastard in Mos Eisley?

Edited on Mon Nov-29-10 10:00 PM by Orrex

The handsome guy whom Obi-wan disarms? Blood is clearly shown on the floor around the stump-end of the dismembered member.

I mean, Rabrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr already cited this one, but the fact that George left the scene intact for the various money-grubbing remixes is all the proof I need that the bleeding saber wound was deliberate and canonical.

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WillParkinson

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Tue Nov-30-10 05:08 AM
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13. Vader has the new and improved lightsaber...

The other guy refused to pay the extra $15.

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Bucky

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Tue Nov-30-10 02:00 PM
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15. Darth Vader cuts WHAT off? Geeze, thanks for forgetting the spoiler alert, ya jackas.

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Orrex

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Tue Nov-30-10 11:05 PM
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16. "Luke Sends Wedge Away"

Google it. I dare you.

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