DrDre said:
Additionally, having characters continually survive what should be lethal injuries lowers the stakes, because apparently any character can just be killed or survive based on the writer’s whims rather than pre-established rules of the universe.

I guess one could use the Dragon Ball Z defense for resurrecting characters, but even that manga/anime tried to stick to its own rules about the powers of the different sets of dragon balls/not using the same balls to resurrect characters twice (as of the Cell Saga, at least - it’s been years since I paid attention to the mess of kudzu that is the Buu Saga).

If Reva lost her legs, I’d buy that scene more. She can’t move well, could plausibly survive given the franchise’s rules, and Vader/deformed Grand Inquisitor might consider the job done (since she presumably wouldn’t escape and leaving her to suffer is OK).