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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
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 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.
It’s just a set photo. It never happened on film.
…how did I never relize that Kenobi has a droid’s name?!
From way back in the books or something, I seem to recall a story arc that implied he was a clone, and not the original Ben Kenobi, hence the nickname. I think that idea got dropped from the main cannon, though.
IIRC Lucas explained at some point that “R2D2” was a film projectionist term, like “reel two, disc two” or something like that.
My dude about to get that Eastern European Lasik surgery.
What are you on about? Eastern European Lasik is top notch.
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.
To be fair, at that time, we had no idea what a lightsaber could or could not cut through either. The entire first movie, we just see them block shots from a training drone, and hit another lightsaber. We don’t see them cut anything until the wampa cave at the start of Empire (and I’m still amazed how luke got his feet out of the ice and still had all 10 toes…).
That is also true!
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.
Like father, like son.
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.
Imagine Obiwan put the lightsaber in training mode and never told Luke about it. Then Luke doesn’t know what they are supposed to do and basically just trains with it and fights with it under the understanding it is basically just a riot control baton until he loses his hand to Darth Vader at the end of Empire.
family guy did the same parody, they tried do eye surgery, but he telekinetically accidentally stabbed her eye with it.
