Originally posted by: Kurgan
The "flipper" from Ponda Boba. I had to pause and take a look at it. I imagine someone seeing this for the first time would be like "wtf am I looking at?" making the shot a distraction. It's like an orange tube with a half inflated gray balloon at the end. It doesn't look like anything that could hold a gun, much less like an actual appendage. Sure, wolfman's hand was out of place, but at least it looked like a hand and the blood made it perfectly clear that this was a severed limb that Obi-Wan must have cut off, in the quick action seconds before.

I have to say, as much as I'm loving every other second of the film, that shot pulled me out of it. Not being entirely educated in every bit of SW lore, I had always assumed that it was the "you'll be dead" guy who's hand got cut off. He's the one who pulls his blaster, and he's between Obi-Wan and walrus guy. So this shot was the first indication I'd ever had that it was walrus-guy who got chopped. It seems to me that, even if it goes against canon, it would be preferable to make it a human-like hand with the suggestion that it's the other guy who gets it. Because the first thought I had was, what the hell was that? Then I rewound, realized it was walrus-guy's hand, and the second thought I had was, how did that hand even draw that pistol from a holster, never mind how he ever intended to fire it? It doesn't make sense to me that a creature with flippers would even bother carrying a pistol designed for a humanoid hand.

That said, every other moment was pure gold. Great work, Ady.

Ron Moses