SPOILER New reports on opening scene

Read it. It stated that the film opens with a severed robotic hand clutching a familiar lightsaber floating through space.
If true this will need a lot of explaining: whose robotic hand is this? When Luke lost his blue lightsaber on Bespin the hand that got cut of was very much not a robotic one. How did the lightsaber end up floating through space? Did it just fly through Bespin's atmosphere of it's own will?

The pig towing stuff sounds cool! Classic Star Wars surrealism.

 

It might not be Luke's lightsabre, and the hand may belong to the entirely bionic arm attached to a villain?

 

Hmmm. Vader's, right? Could tie in to the all the Sith artefact seeking we've been reading about.
Still, how it survived the end of episode 6 remains a mystery.

 

and THIS, my friends, is what a legitimate leak sounds like. Not relying on rehashing stuff everyone has already heard, NEW concepts that shake up what we thought the story would have been, No childish fanboy hate against directors/actors/whatever.

 

Is this "hey go rescue these guys in the brig" stuff in a garrison on the desert planet? Or is it on a imperial cruiser?
A rescue of leads seems very ANH-y... .
I heard bits & specks that Boygeta is captured by scavengers & Daisy's character rescues him there. He "goes native"(a US spec ops term meaning wearing local clothes/disguise) & they go to the relic collector/scrap dealer(rumored to be Max Von Sydow but that seems very unlikely).

The robot hand in space is hotly debated & also seems very B movie ish....
I think that was a rumor/bait to get the rabid fans amped up.

 

You know I never really thought about the fact that Vader's hand was cut off with a lightsaber in it. Vader's saber and the original Anakin/Luke blade are very similar in design so someone COULD have mistaken the two. Plus it could be floating in space what with it being on the Death Star 2 when it blew up. Then again I could just be trying to fit known info into rumors.

 

The second part of this is very believable. I still don't understand how it could be a hand in space. I understand that MAYBE, just MAYBE the light saber is in space. But think for a moment:

1. If it is Luke's lightsaber, do you really think when his hand got cut from his body it would still be holding the lightsaber? For 30 years!!! It has no muscle to physically grip it. How did it even get into space in the first place? It is just not a believable scenario. The only what I could even see this happening is if the so called "grave robber" actually collected it and he lost it at the beginning of the movie out in space. But there has been no mention of this whatsoever.

2. If it were Vader's hand and lightsaber, how did it survive? We can question the concept of gravity with Cloud City. But Endor CLEARY has gravity. Also the Emperor was completely obliterated when he fell.

(Skip to 3:50) Vader's arm fell into that same pit. There's no way that wouldn't get obliterated.

3. Not really sure why it would be Anikan's real arm or fake arm (From Episodes II and III) either.

 

I suppose that's possible if then he loses the lightsaber in the opening scene. But there are a ton of "ifs" here. They can't just open the movie with his hand floating in space and try and fill the gaps later. I feel there just has to be more there in the opening scene (if this is the actual scene) that we're not hearing about.

 

you will recall that the lightsaber and attached hand blow out the hatch into Bespin when luke falls to the antenna thing. I might be wrong, but I am fairly certain this is correct. To have gotten that lightsaber at that time would be a feat miraculous for even a sith Master. More importantly why? Its a normal lightsaber as far as we were told. This not a special lightsaber infused with Sith Magic or anything? So why would they care about lukes rotting hand and the damn lightsaber.

More importantly why would Luke care? Its not like they are going to reattach his damn hand after it got destroyed floating through space. This whole concept makes zero sense, zero. If they bring this to Han, why is Han going to give up the secret location of his friend for a god damn 30 year old lightsaber and a rotting hand. Han would take it and say, thanks kid I'll give it to him if I see him and Chewie would chase them out. There has to be more than this.

 

The thing to remember here is that we are all just piecing together bits of the puzzle. The people leaking stuff only get to see one bit of the puzzle, or just a few different bits. So, FWIW, I don't think Rhea is in any way confirming the "hand clutching saber" thing... Seems more likely to me he is saying "this was the rumoured intro we all read about... here is what I can add to that from what I know about Isaac's character..."
That's not to say he won't later expand on the saber thing, just I don't think this report in particular is trying to tell us that.

 

I know. It's really more venting about it than anything. Just really tired of hearing about this being the opening scene because I really think it's a horrible one

 

It survived because the force willed it to and made sure it fell into the hands of the awakened light side peeps. That's my guess.

 

I thought the saber, or whatever MacGuffin, was on board the Imperial ship that was shot down over this desert planet, resulting in the scourge of the locals to locate it? That's FAR more plausible than a hand holding a saber "landing" on a planet. That's just... dumb.

 

Although you are correct, the issue here is why would Han and Luke care enough to go chasing Luke down and divulge his secret location. It might be the most valuable artifact in the history of histories, but not valuable enough to Luke to risk his life for. valuable yes, as a plot device its stupid. All of this is ignoring the reality that the lightsaber, and the attached hand would have fallen into the atmosphere and burned up. Under almost zero conditions would they have floated back out into space. If they were that high up where that was even possible how is luke breathing? Why is Luke not sucked into the void of space with the hand? It is a really stupid plot device and I really hope we don't see it or I will spend the whole movie cringing. This is worse than anything in the prequels which at least made a modicum of sense.

 

I think if there's a "sacred" saber located, it's vader's. Makes sense given what we know about the Graverobber collecting Sith artifacts.