Sojourn said:
lordjedi said:
Octorox said:
The 2D Clone Wars shows a lightsaber actually boiling the water around it underwater but again that isn't canon.

If I'm not mistaken, that lightsaber was made special to be able to operate underwater. Isn't there a cut scene from TPM where Qui-Gon berates Obi-Wan for getting his lightsaber wet, causing it to "short out"? That's the reason he was running from the STAP.

Yes, that TPM scene sounds right (it's been a while since I watched the deleted scenes, but that rings a bell), and the special-ness of Fisto's lightsaber is backed up here. Though the point about Obi-Wan on Kamino is an interesting one -- perhaps his new saber was also modified, as per the article, to remain functional in the heavy rain?

The idea of steam coming from water-on-saber is an interesting one dramatically, used well in the 2D Clone Wars series when Anakin is fighting Ventress. The thing about using that series as canon, however, is that while there are some ties to the films (how the third season was used to directly tie in to ROTS, for example), there are many examples of scenes that don't seem reasonable to insert into canon -- for example, Mace Windu taking out an entire Separatist ship by himself (awesome, awesome sequence, by the way -- just not necessarily canon), Obi-Wan blocking flame-thrower fire with his hand/the Force, or Obi-Wan riding a speeder/jumping up a 50-story building. These were really cool scenes, and worked well from an entertainment standpoint, but I don't know if they're meant to be considered the official word on Jedi capabilities. :-)

Take care,

Sojourn

P.S. Aha! From later in the article: "A lightsaber blade was a massless form that neither radiated heat nor expended energy until it came into contact with something solid." This would explain the molten blast door, but also fit in with the Shadows of the Empire explanation.

TFU had far more improbable feats than that and I think GL calls that canon