why was there blood when obiwan chopped that buttfaced looking aliens arm off, but when luke's hand is cauterized(!!!yes burn!!!) it just burn the skin
Well, different meats do take different times to cook, perhaps that particular species' flesh was slightly more resistant to cauterization that Human flesh...
Have you noticed that when lightsabers make contact with flesh in ANH that they do different tricks than the other movies,
Aqualish's arm=blood.
Obi-Wan chopped in half=disappearing act.
All other saber wounds=burned shut.
ANH sets out different outlines for SW than anything else in the movies or EU. It's the original, all the OTHERS are the stupid ones who made mistakes.
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Anyway, when Luke cut off the arm of the Wampa, it also bled. I honestly have no idea why, but the OT seems a lot less consistent than the PT on these things.
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Fact is, there 'should' be blood (inverted commas there because of the nature of 'should' in a totally non-scientific fictional setting), because even if the wounds are burnt shut, some of it is going to get out. ANH looks about right.
Trouble was, in the PT, it was going to look pretty darn un-PG if they followed that logic through like they had before.
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Thanks In the EU, the power and intensity of a saber's blade was supposed to be adjustable, yet there was never an onscreen example of that. However, to accept it purely as burning off a scale, see my below answer...
Different species, so more examples of different flesh reacting differently to the effects of the saber's blade...
Apparently they don't, as cortosis ore and phrik alloy are both resistant to lightsaber blades.
Different angle of attack. As you said, he was run through, not bisected as Maul was. That means a much smaller wound with much less blood escaping, and due to the nature of the attack, any blood that did leak from the wound would have been evaporated by contact the blade (note how in Clone Wars the blades 'steamed' in the rain...)
^no, I think he means it's pure speculation. Lucas most likely didn't sit back and say "hmm....Maul's flesh is going to cook at different temps than let's say a Wampa since he's a different species, so let's not make him bleed as much..."
Of course, you're entitled to your own assumption.
In the PG-kid friendly TPM movie, they weren't gonna show Maul's intestines falling out of his midsection as he fell down the shaft
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Given Lucas' 'creative talents', I doubt he does much thinking about anything when he sits down to write.
Someone posed a question, I suggested a plausible answer with basis in fact. Do you have a problem with that?
So instead, they show a spray of blood as he got bisected, essentially showing as much gore as would be allowed, seeing as the bisected body was then seen in it's totality.
Why would I have a problem with it if I said "of course, you're entitled to your own assumption?" In fact, I actually think your explanation for Maul's encounter with the saber attributed to being a different species is pretty creative.
His body split asunder is totally different than guts falling out of his torso. It's more comical than anything. You see Tom & Jerry do that to each other all the time, but you don't see Tom's intestines flailing about, spewing feces and bile all over...
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In the EU, the power and intensity of a saber's blade was supposed to be adjustable, yet there was never an onscreen example of that. However, to accept it purely as burning off a scale, see my below answer...
Yeah!
