Ep 4=Anakin's/Luke's lightsabre_Just how comfortable is it?

[GStone]

Okay, the lightsabre Ben gives Luke is his father's, the one with the fins on the bottom of the handle. I was wondering what people thought of how comfortable it is to hold it? The fins might just fit into the inner side of the joints of the fingers, but wouldn't it be uncomfortable after a while?

[Who is like God arbour]

Do you mean that ergonomic nightmare of a hand held device?

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Can you imagine how that would feel after a while in a battle where one has to grasp such lightsaber really tight? Blisters and weals would be the result. That thing is an ergonomic nightmare.

Sure, that doesn't prevent one from continuing a battle, but nevertheless, it is really not necessary. A better design wouldn't be difficult to find.

[GStone]

You know, I had never really like the design of his lightsabre. For the longest time I liked Ben's from ep 4 the most. But, for some weird reason, I've been feeling drawn to Luke's first sabre the last few weeks and I don't get it. The main thing with me has always been those fin things. They always looked uncomfortable.

[Narsil]

That lightsabre was designed with someone who might not have actually had much in the way of feeling in his right arm.

[Mike DiCenso]

Anything about that in the secondary canon of the novels? The hand prosthetic that Luke is given in TESB shows that it clearly has flesh-like sensory capability. Given how little technology in general changed between RoTS and TESB, I can't see Anakin's arm and hand prosthetic not being any different. Not unless he chose that deliberately.
-Mike

[Narsil]

It's shown, however, that Anakin Skywalker's arm hasn't actually got any synthetic flesh on it so it's anyone's guess really.

[Mr. Oragahn]

My main concern with OT lightsabres has been their sheer diameter.

With the buttons and other things, they always looked like it would really stretch your hands to roll them around the full weapon.

Yet, globally, Anakin's lightsabre looks nice.

[GStone]

You know, I looked at a close up image of the diameter of the flash handle used and the person's hand was holding it and it's so fucking narrow. The one in ANH looked thicker and it isn't the variation that's got the two stands that apparently was in the X-Wing...somewhere.

[Mike DiCenso]

It's shown, however, that Anakin Skywalker's arm hasn't actually got any synthetic flesh on it so it's anyone's guess really.

Initially that's true during the wedding scene at the end of AoTC. However, we never really know for sure if it stays that way, and there must be some kind of sensors, regardless of artifical skin, or Anakin would have had little control over it, like not being able to feel Pademe's hand in his, and squeezing too tightly by accident.
-Mike

[Cpl Kendall]

If he had artificial skin then why did he always wear a glove? Luke only doned the glove after the hand got damaged and presumably ditched it after having it repaired.

[Mike DiCenso]

As I said, we don't know one way or the other. The long arm glove could be symbolic for Anakin. But regardless, his bionic arm and hand must have something as I said, or he'd have had a tough time controlling it, at least for fine control.

Though now that I think about it, why wasn't Anakin's arm salvaged and reconnected? Surely a civilization as advanced as the SW one has excellent microsurgery techniques. For that matter, why not clone him a new one?
-Mike

[GStone]

As I said, we don't know one way or the other. The long arm glove could be symbolic for Anakin. But regardless, his bionic arm and hand must have something as I said, or he'd have had a tough time controlling it, at least for fine control.

We know that his forearm and hand are at least metallic with no artificial skin covering because of the scene where he sits up in bed before he walks onto the balcony. The thing is shiney.

Though now that I think about it, why wasn't Anakin's arm salvaged and reconnected? Surely a civilization as advanced as the SW one has excellent microsurgery techniques.

The tissue was probably too damaged by the lightsabre. Bacta mostly sucks, so they thought the best they could do was stick wires into him. Given the lack of refrigeration units on geonosis, by the time they could have gotten him and the arm anywhere, there would have too much decay to the cut off body part to revive the sucker. Add in the high heat and presumably high humidity, that bitch would have been something foul.

For that matter, why not clone him a new one?
-Mike

Maybe everything happened so fast to get the arm in that it was just overlooked. Or, he might have needed to be battle ready. Kaminoans seem to be good cloners, but it still takes an ungodly long time for things to grow. Their accelerants only cut things down by half. I don't see him waiting for 10 years before he gets a new arm.

[mojo]

As I said, we don't know one way or the other. The long arm glove could be symbolic for Anakin. But regardless, his bionic arm and hand must have something as I said, or he'd have had a tough time controlling it, at least for fine control

We know that his forearm and hand are at least metallic with no artificial skin covering because of the scene where he sits up in bed before he walks onto the balcony. The thing is shiney.

It seems to me the metal hand, regardless of it's ability to feel pressure, may not have been able to feel pain or even discomfort. Yes I know Luke's hand absolutely did feel pain and I know Vader grunts in pain when he gets hit with the light saber in TESB, but I think he got hit in the shoulder and there's no reason to think Anakin would have wanted to be able to feel pain in his arm since he was immediately going back to war. If he couldn't feel pain in the arm, wouldn't the weird fins on the light saber have made it easier to hold onto? Anakin showed a tendency to lose his sabers in the prequels, so maybe after he lost his arm he decided to do something about it. Surely he could hold a saber tighter with the robot arm and it seems like he could grip those fins better than a smooth surface.

[GStone]

I can't find my copy of ep 2, but I think Anakin had the fins on his lightsabre before he lost his arm.

[GStone]

I finally found it and checked the scene where Ben returns Anakin's lightsabre when they're chasing Zam. The bottom of the handle was turned up and the fins were there, but they don't extend that far from the handle itself.