Anakin's hand in ROTS

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2006-06-04 04:59am

I recently tossed ROTS into the DVD player and noticed something strange as Anakin lands on Mustafar. After he tells R2 to stay with the ship, he walks off the landing platform and pulls his hood over his head. When doing this, I'm fairly certain that instead a gauntlet covering his prosthetic arm, we see his natural arm.

Can anyone else confirm this, or am I just hallucinating?

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-06-04 06:26am

Well I'm not going to bother throwing in the DVD to check right now, but if so, it's likely they just flipped the image for some reason and hoped no one would notice?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-06-04 06:53am

I have heard about it, but I've never bothered to look for it.

EDIT: I've looked at the scene, and yes, it's his natural arm and hand without the gauntlet. In other words, a goof (and Vympel's suggestion sounds likely as well).

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-06-04 12:48pm

It's not likely they'd have Hayden in the rest of his costume without the glove, so I'm guessing Vympel's right. They wanted him walking across the scene in the opposite direction to the original footage, so they mirrored the footage.. and overlooked that detail.

Good catch, Warchief!

Silver Jedi · Post by **Silver Jedi** » 2006-06-06 01:05am

It's a goof alright, but I think it's a wardrobe one. At the beginning of the scene, we see artoo pop out of his socket on the port side of the fighter. If it was a flipped image, he would appear to be on the other side. Also, none of the asymetrical features on artoo's dome are flipped. In addition, It looks to me at least like both his hands are un-gauntleted.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-06-06 01:06am

Silver Jedi wrote:It's a goof alright, but I think it's a wardrobe one. At the beginning of the scene, we see artoo pop out of his socket on the port side of the fighter. If it was a flipped image, he would appear to be on the other side. Also, none of the asymetrical features on artoo's dome are flipped. In addition, It looks to me at least like both his hands are un-gauntleted.

Artoo would have been added in post-production, so the original video could have been flipped without Artoo being flipped.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2006-06-07 04:14am

Actually, both of Anakin's hands are flesh-colored in the scene, so supposed video flipping is not the source of the error.

It would appear to be a pure wardrove malfunction.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2006-06-07 07:17am

Maybe he had a flesh color glove he liked wearing while piloting his ship

WyrdNyrd · Post by **WyrdNyrd** » 2006-06-07 07:22am

Shadow WarChief wrote:It would appear to be a pure wardrove malfunction.

But then where was the Congressional inquiry?

Post by **Coyote** » 2006-06-07 11:26am

Is it possible he already received his full flesh-style prosthetic, like the one Luke gets? Remember in the scene in ROTJ where Luke cuts off Vader's hand; Vader has a full arm-diameter stump showing so somewhere in there he got an upgrade.

The golden robo-arm would have been a stand-by until a good and proper cloned arm could be fashioned...possibly taking months in the early days of the Clone Wars but by Luke's time the tech has advanced so they fashioned one in a few hours... I have not read any of the novelisations pertaining to these events so there may be some backstory I am not aware of...

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-07 04:45pm

Coyote wrote:Is it possible he already received his full flesh-style prosthetic, like the one Luke gets? Remember in the scene in ROTJ where Luke cuts off Vader's hand; Vader has a full arm-diameter stump showing so somewhere in there he got an upgrade.

The golden robo-arm would have been a stand-by until a good and proper cloned arm could be fashioned...possibly taking months in the early days of the Clone Wars but by Luke's time the tech has advanced so they fashioned one in a few hours... I have not read any of the novelisations pertaining to these events so there may be some backstory I am not aware of...

No. In the CW cartoons, he has the same artificial hand up until his last mission before the Battle of Corusant, destroys it, and then slaps on a replacement, mechanical-looking gauntlet as the Open Circle fleet is departing for the capital. Certainly, that part of the CW may or may not be canonical, due to LOE, but it does indicate that he still had a mechanical-looking implement under his glove up until his "death" (indeed, I believe that fact is referenced in at least one of the novels).

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-06-07 10:28pm

Coyote wrote:The golden robo-arm would have been a stand-by until a good and proper cloned arm could be fashioned...possibly taking months in the early days of the Clone Wars but by Luke's time the tech has advanced so they fashioned one in a few hours... I have not read any of the novelisations pertaining to these events so there may be some backstory I am not aware of...

Galactic civilization is already 25,000 years old. It's not likely that medical prosthetic technology advanced that significantly in a mere 20 years.

But it is possible that somewhere in RotS he changes his mechanical arm; possibly once after the Battle of Coruscant, to the full-sized (non-skeletal) silver arm we see in his bedroom.. and perhaps again, later, to a flesh one, later.

However, the flesh prosthetic change is unlikely.
It's most likely a wardrobe gaffe; when he enters the Mustafar control room and murders the Separatist Council, his leather glove is present. It's unlikely that he dons the glove on his way from the landing pad to the control room (why would he bother?).

DesertFly · Post by **DesertFly** » 2006-06-07 11:20pm

Cykeisme wrote:(why would he bother?).

The demands of fashion are not so easily tosssed aside as you seem to think.