adywan said:Bingowings said:adywan said:Bingowings said:As for Vader's lungs however they would certainly be damaged (presumably Vader used the force to keep himself alive while he waited to be rescued).
People who are trapped in house fires may suffer from smoke inhalation independent of receiving skin burns; however, the incidence of smoke inhalation increases with the percentage of total body surface area burned.
Vader receives massive burns to almost all of his remaining body and the heat and smoke would have been much more intense than in any house fire and would have effectively written off his lungs so I have no problem with him being stuck in the black suit after such a series of injuries.
But you forget that the reason smoke inhalation is such a serious problem to lungs is that it is in an enclosed space but the lava scene in in an open space so the smoke would never have affected him enough for the life-support suit.
His entire body is going up in flames, and his clothing and he is laying face down on beach of burning coals...even so the heat damage would have pretty much baked the inside of his lungs beyond repair... It's a miracle of the Force that he didn't die before Palpatine and Co got to him.
That still doesn't explain it. You need to read about this guy who was a soldier in the falklands war. This guy was in a ship, which was an enclosed space that was turned into a fireball and he doesn't have any breathing problems. Look at the scene where Anakin burns. there is a minimal amount of smoke and almost none rising from the coals. the flames are all heading skywards and because he is on his front it wouldn't have affected him enough to damage his lungs that bad.
Technically speaking the whole fight isn't very realistic as the super heated steam and sulfurous fumes would have resulted in Obi-Wan being in an iron lung too. Even at the distance that Obi-Wan is from the lava after his jump it would have been hotter than a furnace and they spent a long time fighting right over the top of the stuff with minimal damage to their clothes...let alone their bodies.
Lava is very, very hot and the air surrounding it is very, very hot and this isn't just a single volcano, this is a volcanic planet so the air would be un-breathable anyway.
Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's fantasy, it's Sinbad with space ships (which is why I'm behind 1000% about removing the muddy clawings and returning The Force to a mystical power as it always should have been ). The only sequence that met and actually went beyond my childhood expectations that bubbled up from the moment the words "Episode IV" appeared on a cinema screen was the Obi-Wan/Mannikin Skywalker duel.
But as always it's your project and if you can think of an even better way of getting Vader into that suit go for it with my unwavering support.