Originally posted by: MTHaslett

I've got problems with how Episode III leads into the OT-- but "implausible medicine" isn't one of them. The Sith Lord isn't the prosthetic suit-- it's the man inside. Where did you get the "months of rebuilding" idea? Jedi Med School? Luke got a new hand like they had one waiting on the shelf for him. The way it's established in the movies-- their medicine either fixes people in a few minutes --or can't work at all. These guys fly from one star to the next as easily as we drive to the market. The one constant in Star Wars is that their technology is way beyond ours.

So, yeah-- it would be as easy as slapping some legs and arms on the body, making sure it can breathe, and then waking the poor bastard up. It could've been done nicer, but Palpatine is sadistic. "You killed your wife, dude." "No-o-o-o!"

Wow. I guess this is what Star Wars has been reduced to. Back in the days of the OT they didn't rush from star to start just like we go to the grocery store. It took them hours to get to Alderaan. In the PT they seem to get from location to location in seconds, very much like we drive to the super market. After Luke was throttled by a wompa he spent a good deal of time in a bacta tank, and still had to spend some time in bed. Technology may be beyond ours, but physics are still more or less the same, gravity still keeps them on the groud. That is when Sci-fi disconnects itself from the audience, when things go to far. Even in Star Trek they make an effort to explain how they can use technology to rebuild cells in an instant. BSG makes an effort to keep the audience closer to story by making the technology seem advanced, but yet familiar. In the OT everything made since. It made since that they could rid Luke of that nasty cut in a matter of a day so he could look nice and pretty before going to visit Yoda, because they established the bacta tanks and we got the impression that they had technology to speed up the healing process.

In ROTS, they through the poor guy into a leather suit. Okay, fine that works. Technology that works in a matter of minutes. By way would Palps have this suit lying around? And why would it happen to be just the right size for Anakin? The Luke loosing his hand argument is a weak one, because he was on a medical ship, it would make sense they would have a few prosthetic hands lying around. No to mention by the time they were fitting his hand it is very clearly implied that a good deal of time has passed. The Falcon is all fueled up and ready to go, not to mention completely repaired from the awful mess it is in throughout the entire film. Threepio is completely put back together. Also Luke is no longer in the feverish state from the shock and trauma of loosing an appendage, but actually looks pretty healthy, like maybe he had a couple of days of rest under his belt. That Jedi Med school thing was also a pretty stupid comment. I didn't say I know it would take months of rebuilding, I said I would have imagined it would take several months of rebuilding. I just think the idea that you can throw a special suit on him that will perfectly accomodate all his needs based on his injuries and have him up and ready to fight Jedi in less than a day is pretty childish. Kind of disappointing for such a culturally significant character as Darth to have such a lame creation. You couldn't even with a streatch of the imagination say a good deal of time has passed between the incident and Anakin's rebuilding, because it is intercut between shots of Padme giving birth to the babies and loosing the will to live (another terrible childish idea), this indicates the scene took place then and there. Especially since we know it took no time at all for Obi-Wan and Threepio to get her to the medical facility, since they can get there as quickly as we can go to the grocery store. It isn't even an issue about believeability, but rather a question of good idea or bad idea.