Sluggo said:
Bring_My_Shuttle said:
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The devil's in the details. For example, there was a poetry with Luke cutting off Vader's hand in ROTJ, seeing it was mechanical, and it dawning on him that he was in danger of turning into the same as he contemplated his own mechanical hand. In the PT, Vader got his hand and legs cut off, and left to burn and die a painful slow death by Kenobi. It just crapped on that ROTJ moment, and showed Kenobi to be a sadistic hat to boot.
...I would add to this that while Anakin still needed to have fallen into the volcano (that's right..VOLCANO, not some lava river), Ben needn't have cut his arms and legs off. They could have lost in the volcano.
I always disliked the volcano idea, and for some reason I always thought the injuries we see in ESB and ROTJ seemed like those associated with radiation exposure. I think I was convinced after seeing TPM that Anakin would received the injuries in that same power core on Naboo where Maul fought Kenobi and Jinn.