The Holonet Boards : Ugly Hand

posted 08-16-2002 10:41 PM

That golden sparkled, artifical hand that had been attched to Anakin's body is ugly. Do you think they will remake it to look more realistical, then robotic?

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posted 08-16-2002 10:55 PM

I think the point of the artificial hand's ugliness is to be realistic. After all, the story takes place decades before Luke's artificial hand (must run in the family).

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posted 08-16-2002 10:56 PM

Ugly hand stuff.....ewwww; I am disgusted to see one of my favorite characters with an ugly hand

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posted 08-16-2002 11:04 PM

Anakin made the hand himself, according to what I've heard. And I think it's a hint as to him becoming "more machine now than man." It's symbolic of the change he's going through mentally.

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posted 08-16-2002 11:13 PM

Ouch. Must've hurt as he stuck each mechanical part on his stump, even if he's "good at fixing things." Wonder if used a sedative...

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Entaris

posted 08-16-2002 11:49 PM

ok, as for theknots's post 'it must run in the family' you see that in REturn of the jedi, as look cuts of vaders hand, the same hand that vader cut off of him, and it is robotic, rather then flesh, so in this movie it really shouldnt come as a big serprise that he gets hishand cut off... and as for the "ugly" part of it, you really dont see it well in the movie, and it is fairly knew, perhaps he just did some quick job and hadnt finished puting like plating or something on it to make it look more apeasing, or maybe it looks fine, it looked kinda like it was intended to be artistic from my point of view, all goldish and sparkly...

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posted 08-16-2002 11:49 PM

It would of been funny if Ben Skywalker would have been born without a right hand... heh...

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posted 08-17-2002 12:31 AM

Er...thats not what I meant.

Don't you think its a coincidence that Anakin loses his right hand, and later his son Luke ALSO loses his right hand?

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posted 08-17-2002 12:35 AM

I think the Star Wars term is Destiny.

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posted 08-17-2002 01:09 AM

Maybe is was a temporary hand while the realistic hand was being made. Maybe he wanted to rush to be married. If I'm wrong, then chances are he becomes Darth very soon into Episode 3 because he can't really do a whole lot with a hand like that...

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posted 08-17-2002 01:35 AM

Thats what Im thinking, Im jus thoping he changes his hand because I dont wanna see no Jedi with a ugly hand fighting bad guys......just not pretty

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posted 08-17-2002 11:49 AM

I rather liked the shiney gold thing. Though I think it definatly will remain mechanical looking to juxtapose his physical change with his emotional pyschological change.

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posted 08-17-2002 05:06 PM

I just hope it turns into a more realistical shaped hand. Its ugly to me, very ugly

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Entaris

posted 08-17-2002 07:12 PM

umm...brodie-wan, thats exactly what i was implying, that was evedent in the original trilligy, if you look at vaders hand, its mechanical, as if he had already lost that hand before, thats the purpose of what the had shown in EP 2, to show that yes indeed, his hand was mechanical, so father and son alike lose the same hand.

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posted 08-17-2002 07:23 PM

I wonder if this'll change Anakin's attitude toward fighting, and might do what his master says...but you know him, he'll never do that

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Entaris

posted 08-18-2002 12:14 AM

Heh, anakin? change? only for the bette- i mean worse that is...

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posted 08-18-2002 08:46 PM

How did this thread get somehow to Anakin and his side...must have been Entaris fault, lol j/k

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posted 08-18-2002 09:35 PM

I believe the hand is such as it is because the technology hasn't advanced to the state of where it will be when Luke is a young man and uses his hand. Quite probably somewhere along the way, the "more than mechanical, less than man" Vader will have the hand replaced by a newer model

Also, I tend to agree that the hand, being ugly, currently represents his own deep-seated view of himself, probably because he couldn't save his mother.

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posted 08-18-2002 11:58 PM

Yeah, but I wonder if Anakin ever noticed that going to the Darkness would only create turmoil toward the ones he loved if they were to be around. I wonder if he ever looked back at Padme, noticing that if she was alive she wouldn't approve of it. Thats something that I just feel would take him back to his senses....

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