Ripplin said:
To me, the cut would be so fast that you would barely see any damage at all. Maybe a faint wisp of smoke coming from the shoulder and maybe from the stump on the ground, which I figure would all but be "lifeless" (i.e. no smoke or boiling blood or anything) by the time it hit the ground.

Kinda like Adywan's arm in 'ANH:R' then. Yes that could work on the 'stump' shot too, but I still like the idea of a little 'cauterization' effect when we see the 'arm' in 'close-up' before it. Also, we immediately cut to the arm hitting the ground after it's sliced off by Luke here, whereas there were a few seconds before we saw Ady's 'arm' after Ben sliced it off, during which time the effect would have gone, just leaving the faint wisp of smoke....

However, I guess we're not getting this shot anyway.

The Golden Idol - As to where Ady's been, I reckon he's busy with all this stuff he's cobbling together. Last I heard, he was trying out a Wampa suit concept to tie all it's shots together.... - http://www.swfn.de/images/mitglieder/stefan_v/stefan_v5.jpg