well i am sure he could have survived without the suit. he would have just had to wheel an oxygen tank around. first i dont think sidious thought he would be cery threatening with that on. second, it would have been hard to chase down rebel scum with it being wheeled behind him. the opted to go with the suit. it seems pretty ovious to me why.
OK from a truely madical point of veiw.. i worked in an ER for animals for about a year.. I saw a few cats and dogs that had been in fires.. some badly burned and some from smoke inhaltion.. and all of them could still wimper, moan, bark, and meow!.. and some of the same died shortly after. The problem is that the lungs can't heal themselves.. Once damage is done it is done and it gets worse with impurities etc.. also look at the fact that Anakin laid there for a while. constantly breathing in all that smoke around him (causing further damage to his lungs), and if you look at his chest he is breathing and heaving heavely.
Whats more annoying is why didnīt vader ask Palpatine to heal him, especially after hinting he learned some secret life creating technique from his master who he killed in his sleep.
If you look when he is being brought into the lab he has an oxygen mask on, so i think it is pretty obvious that he needs it for extened periods of time, and if he did not have the Vader mask he would definitly die in a short while.
Another stupid thread.
WHY DO YOU CARE IF IT IS A BAD THREAD OR NOT ., I JUST WANT AN ANSWER . and i think you only said this to impress other members or something . who gives a crap if i start a thread , its not the end of the world .and if you ask me its a good question ,obviously i didnt know the answer ,so i asked , big deal its only a thread,.............
He wasnīt that good looking after getting all burnt up, Iīd wear a mask if I was that ugly.
Mind you considering the technoloical level of the star wars galaxy, cloning going on and all that plus Sidiousīs boast about "creating life" they should have been able to replace a few limbs and stick some bum skin on his face. And with breathing, well look at the robots, they could have surely put an artificial lung in him.
The suit he is in probably does a lot more then help his breathing also. It probably is an air purifier also to clean the air he breaths, and also probably has more features.
Consider the technology in star wars times. Mechanical limbs that function as well as real limbs, death stars, lightsabers, etc... The suit isn't what is keeping him alive. The suit just makes him regain the strength he had before the accident and makes him able to rule the empire still. Vader is a lot like Grevious in that sense. More machine then metal, but still functional killers.
Think of the suit more as helping him become stronger then he was before through advanced technology, rather then the suit keeping him alive.
It's an image worth pondering for a moment. Maybe, when you cut past the instrumental and songwriting virtuosity, the funny voices and characters, what is left is a man alone in his recording studio for days at a time.
Jun 28th, 2005 01:16 AM
Had way too many bongs, reality was too hard to live... ended up with emphysema. 
