You must log in or register to comment.
Do you think that lightsaber had a training setting so it didn’t actually damage anything? Because if it did I can imagine Anakin switching that on while killing the younglings and batting them out the council chamber windows like he’s at the batting cages.
Like father, like son.
Yeah, I get that it was just a movie, but it was pretty amazing how reckless OB1 was with letting Luke handle a lightsabre from the first go.
handed one of the most dangerous weapons in the galaxy; immediately points it at his own face
My dude about to get that Eastern European Lasik surgery.
What are you on about? Eastern European Lasik is top notch.
Well, I don’t know about most dangerous weapon. Staying in universe, on a linear scale from „a stick“ to „the Death Star“, I’d argue it is pretty close to the stick.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Never demonstrates this
Anakin never reached the “show don’t tell” portion of his training before his corruption and fall
The thing with the OT is that if you mentally replace James Earl Jones’ Vader voice with Hayden Christensen’s it all works perfectly. Vader’s imposing nature came entirely from the suit and the voice; deep down he was still just a kid whining about sand.
Pretty sure the Sith and Jedi killed more people throughout history using lightsabers than either of the two death stars ever did, even with one of them blowing up an entire planet.
With that kind of reasoning knives are more dangerous than nukes in the real world.
How likely do you think you’d be blown up by a nuke vs stabbed or cut with a knife, hmm? You are in more danger from cutting yourself making dinner tonight than you are of being nuked.
Is that a still from the actual movie, or just from production?
I just re-watched the scene and didn’t see this. But it’s true, after trying the lightsabre out for a bit, he turns it off, sits down, and promptly points it directly at OB1.
It’s just a set photo. It never happened on film.
It’s in the original and I don’t think the scene was changed in any of the re-releases. But it’s in the background while Obi Wan is talking for like a second.
It’s one of the few scenes I wish was changed on the re-releases, since the jump-cut when the lightsaber is activated was so obvious.
Isn’t it canon that they can turn down the power of the lightsaber to make it safe for training situations? I seem to remember reading some story where one guy is berated for injuring someone with a lightsaber that was turned down to training conditions, implying that he had actively tried to hurt them.
I think that’s true, but at the time, the only canon was Luke swinging around a laser sword willy-nilly.
In principle yes. But OB1 was also a very powerful Jedi, who would have sensed any serious threats
I also kinda feel like having a magic sword that cuts through anything might be a bad idea when you’re on a spaceship and protected from hard vacuum by a thin shell.
family guy did the same parody, they tried do eye surgery, but he telekinetically accidentally stabbed her eye with it.
