Uh, no it's not.
Can a Lightsaber.....
- Thread starter All Seeing Eye
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Uh, no it's not.
Until such time as anything in the EU is contradicts or is contradicted by something on-screen, yes, it's canon.
That's not your decision to make; it's Lucasfilm's. And they disagree with you.
Canon != quality.
Agreed. If that were the case, many people wouldn't consider the prequels to be canon.
The robots that were General Grevious guards had those "sticks" that were able to make contact with a ligt saber and block it and those rolling battle droids had shields that could stop a light saber so there were things on screen that could counter a light saber.
And before that Luke winged Vader in Empire Strikes Back without cutting all the way through.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.The Force can stop bullets.Possibly.
Energy shots are going to be traveling nearly at the speed of light.
Bullets at a few times the speed of sound.
Stopping a bullet should be no problem for a Jedi.
It's canon because Lucas is the only one who can contradict it at will. All other authors (novels, comics, games) have to treat the EU as The Truth.
In this case, the term "canon" is merely a formal way of expression Star Wars' philosophy of keeping the EU unified and consistent.
I'm not happy with everything that's come from that philosophy---the lengths to which certain authors have gone to explain away other authors' idiocies is at times breathtaking---but there's more good than bad.
They were made out of a material called Cortosis.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Well looking at the movies it doesn't look like that to me.
3D Master
Rear Admiral
Which means you get hot gas slammed in your face, end result isn't much different.
When a Jedi is ready, he won't have to... Sorry, wrong movie. Seriously though, if your chasing a Jedi around with a shotgun, not only do you know your a redneck, but your minutes are probably getting fairly limited as well.
Although, you might stand a chance if you happen to be packing buckshot.
Although, you might stand a chance if you happen to be packing buckshot.
Checkmate
Commodore
I don't know. Maybe, just maybe, it's possible to enjoy something as a whole but still take issue with aspects of it. Crazy, I know, but that just might be it.And then there's the plausibility of...oh, wait...why are you watching Star Wars, again?
A lightsaber produces no heat on its own. It does agitate molecules in surrounding matter to create heat.
Its monomolecular blade may be able to intersect with a bullet, but it would simply shear it in half, creating 2 projectiles instead of one.
I tend to agree with the consensus. A Jedi should have no problem with bullets and somehow stopping/deflecting them, with their light saber.
There seems to be a misconception around here that Jedi are fast enough to dodge or deflect blaster shots. I never thought that was the case.
No, my impression was always that it is the force which allows them to predict where the blaster shots will land. Prediction, not reaction.
The same would apply to bullets, obviously.
No, my impression was always that it is the force which allows them to predict where the blaster shots will land. Prediction, not reaction.
The same would apply to bullets, obviously.
3D Master
Rear Admiral
Prediction isn't going to help you if a lot blaster shots come in a row, as we've seen happen on occasion. You're still going to need to keep your lightsaber in place long enough to absorb one blaster shot, before moving it to absorb the next. And for that, you require speed; a ridiculous amount of speed.
