Anakin's Prosthetic Hand

I have been hearing some buzz about people that are upset that Anakin wears a glove over his robotic hand in Episode III, because "Luke only did so to cover it up when it was injured, not just for the sake of looking cool." I would just like to state that the reason Anakin wears this glove is for appearance purposes, but not "to look cool". Its simply so you don't see a reference to Anakin's lack of skill. If you saw a Jedi with a metal hand, wouldn't you assume he was weak enough to have gotten it chopped off? That would give you more confidence in battle. But when you can't see something about your opponent, it strikes fear in you, and that causes you to become self conscious and worse in battle (it would be a smart idea to wear your hood on the robes in battle to hide your facial expressions too but eh, Jedi gotta die in this, not win). The reason Luke didn't do this is because his hand was identical to human hands, and you couldn't tell the difference until it was shot at Jabba's.

Any comments?

I'd rather see his glove then that golden robotic hand. 😬

I like the glove much better

Judging by the released shots it looks like Anakin's got a much cooler glove than Luke. Lukes is like something my grandmother would wear while Anakins is big, bulky and very Vaderish.

The glove makes it look better. much better, instead of some droid looking thing.

I agree.

Glad to see nobody has any anti-glove comments.

yeah, i don't wanna see terminator ani the whole movie.. besides, there's a scene with his shirt off where you'll see his hand.. don't worry, he'll be ungloved at least once.

Yep, that's true. I believe he's with Padme in that scene. lol

also.. where do you get that slipping on a glove over an injured bionic hand helps fix it??

Being ungloved with Padme is what got them the twins......

Seriously, though, the glove looks cool. It has those clamps on it....

yep...the glove looks cool

I like that he wears the glove too.

yep, the clamps are awesome.... it's like an ice skate boot.... accept it's a glove.. 😄

Originally posted by Gangularis
also.. where do you get that slipping on a glove over an injured bionic hand helps fix it??

It never fixes it, it just protects your viewing of having a machine for a hand, proving that you were beaten before. Luke puts it on for the same reason as Anakin does, so you don't know its there. That's why Luke didn't need it when his hand looked authentic but needed it when you could see all the synthetic nerves and such.

i always thought Luke put the glove on so that Yoda couldn't see it. I dont think its for the same reason as Anakin - cuz the only person(jedi)_ he needed to fight was the guy that cut thehand in the first place

ILM put the glove on Anakin so they would not have to replace it with a CGI robotic hand. SIMPLE

Although in one bth his hand is a blue glove with markings so I'd say that we will see it without the glove..... all cgi'd up and stuff....

Has anyone seen the Clone Wars cartoon?

I was under the impression that Anakin's arm was severed above the elbow joint - but in the Clone Wars cartoon he has his elbow intact.

This was one of the reasons why I realised that pic of "burned Ani" months and months ago was a fake mainly because of the arm being severed below the elbow, when Dooku clearly cut it off above it (IMO).

So is Anakin's golden arm going to have an elbow or not? It's just one of those continuity things that bugs me in a way a paper cut does.

i love the gloves but i also want to see bionic style anakin!!!