ST Luke's hand

the Dark Side got into it and it turned bad, so he had to lop it off at the wrist.

 

Groovy.

In Episode VIII he replaces the hand with a chainsaw lightsaber.

 

Luke Skywalker is secretly a Terminator in disguise... Because he has the exact same robotic arm seen in T2!



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Yes yes exactly lmao!

 

It looks different than what we saw in ROTJ, I assumed he got it replaced with a better model that didn't have fake skin.

 

How an you say that we've only seen the linkage in the wrist area as in ESB and the tendon Pistons in ROTJ.
In TFA we see it all together we had no idea what the phalanges looked like

 

Didn't look the same to me. We see his damaged back of the hand, and it has a specific design to it. Luke's hand in TFA had a whole different production design, a newer model. Besides, that old one was damaged, why not upgrade the prosthetic?

 

Possible I guess not a big deal in my mind I'd chalk it up to the difference between 80s special effects and teens special effects though

 

I think almost every character has something different about them to give the missing 30 years a fair bit of mystery...

 

I mean, Luke is already the most mysterious man in the movie. All we have is a bunch of unanswered questions when it comes to him. Why would he need something else different?
But in the end I figure they will come up with some lame story about how Luke no longer felt worthy of the flesh hand after it was dusted in ROTJ and likely finished off when he was fighting his student that went dark. After that he just left it like that so that he could suffer with the memories of the past. I have him pegged as the angst character that is supposed to render even the most hardened science fiction fan to putty. But I think they will fail because unless he has a really, really good reason for hanging in the mountains for numerous years, most people won't forgive him.
Those are me thoughts on the hand and Luke in general.

 

Or.... as he got older and the synthetic flesh with a huge blast hole in it started to degrade, Luke, being wiser and more spiritual, no longer possessed the vanity to care about the aesthetics of hiding a robot hand.

Nah. That theory doesn't reinforce the panic/anger/doomsaying about the ST that's all the rage right now. Best to disregard it.

 

I guess once Luke found out that the love of his life was his .. sister, he just stopped caring about appearances, including his hand.

Seriously though, here are a few hypotheses (you can pick, choose or make up your own as you please):

• The skin broke and 21-B was too busy to fix it
• The skin broke and they ran out of bacta
• He got tired of continuously replacing the synthetic skin
• He came to terms with his own mechanisation as he became more attuned with the force and kept the robotic hand as a reminder of his papa and of his own potential down the dark and slippery path to the dark side. (this is my head-canon)

 

This is actually quite interesting. If we presume the hand-on-R2's-dome scene was at or immediately after the attack at Luke's school (Pablo Hidalgo says not to call it an Academy), and that took place at least within the last six to ten years before TFA (again nothing definitive there) and if the loss of the synthetic covering on his hand was due to damage, why did he not get it fixed before he took off for Ach-To? He obviously still has the mechanisms exposed in the final scene. It seems to be a choice, or he left immediately and has not been near any facility that could repair it.

 

The answer that no one wants to hear: Exigencies of circumstance.

Special effects/budgeting

Back in 1983, a non-human hand would have been too costly and not very good looking, just that one shot of Luke putting on the glove in the cockpit of his x-wing to hide the exposed mechanism cost as much as the shot itself...

Now, replacing a real hand with a mechanical-looking special effect is much less expensive and looks much better than in 1983.

But I like this idea, too...

 

Possibly a reminder of who he is, and his own history.

 

I especially like your 4th (last) idea, it feels like Star Wars.

 

How about this... When destroying the Jedi academy, Kylo Ren set fire to the area where the small children slept. Luke was able to rescue Rey but none of the other children, and the fire burned the synthetic skin off his robotic hand. Kylo Ren was left to believe none of the children survived...

 

Just an upgrade to a battle-spec hand. His other mechanical hand was a quick job done inside a rebel ship.

Also, he took a hit to his hand in RotJ, and the Emperor lightning should have done some severe damage to the old hand.

 

Yup, happens on Jabba's sail barge

 

But he still does the glove thing thereafter.He did not get a lifelike replacement covering when he also needed the mechanism fixed after the sail barge, that seems clear. Afterward (post ROTJ) why ditch the black glove? The decision to not glove it at least, seems to be some conscious choice. Or the film makers in VII thought it would be cooler since- they could do it. Either some psychological motive we may or may not be privy to, or just a little more zing to the shots.

 

They needed to show Luke in the flashback without showing him. So a robotic hand to show that it is Luke. A hand with a glove or a new robotic hand with complete fake skin would not have confirmed that it is Luke next to R2. Just filmmakers storytelling tricks.

 

Yes, this. That actually is what I believe but it is always nice to construct mysteries time to time for the sake of mental gymnastics. Being able to show his mechanical hand in the teaser while only showing the back of his cowl with the fire-sparks background was a great teaser shot. Then keeping the hand ungloved in the final reveal was the tie in. But it is fun to play with it anyway even though there probably is no significance whatsoever.