Question regarding The Empire Strikes Back(yeah, it's AB related)

[Millenniumfalsehood]

I have been a DL for a long time and a big Star Wars fan for about as long, so this has naturally been bugging me for a while:

Was that a diaper that Mark Hamill was wearing in the bacta tank after he was attacked by the snow beast?

 

[Fire2box]

Short answer, No.

 

[EmeraldsAndLime]

Long answer, No.

 

[weswissa]

Wow, you guys are mean...

~Weswissa

 

[WildThing121675]

Ya know, it never ceases to amaze me how some people take diapers too seriously and thin they see diapers everywhere.

Makes me laugh.

WildThing121675

 

[EmeraldsAndLime]

Wow, you guys are mean...

~Weswissa

Not really. How so, you ask?

Answer:

Ya know, it never ceases to amaze me how some people take diapers too seriously and thin they see diapers everywhere.

Makes me laugh.

WildThing121675

 

[WildThing121675]

Sorry about that. I made my comment cause I've seen similar like this ones over the past 8 years online, and all the time I see them, it makes me crack up with a laugh. It was not meant to e mean.

I've seen like five different versions of 'Did I see a diaper in (insert movie title here)?" question by people online in the past month. That's why I said what I said. It's comical in a way, not a mean-spirited way.

WildThing121675

 

[weswissa]

It was more in a comical way.

~Weswissa

 

[Shen]

All they did was answer your question. :s.

 

[Nicky]

i was going to say YES

 

[the0silent0alchemist]

its possble.. after all i dont think id like the bacta to get contaminated..

 

[Valentine]

Ask George Lucas.

 

[wetatnight]

it looked like a diaper to me too. but I have no idea what kinds it was.
but it would have to have been some sort of swim diaper, being luke was completly under water in that scene.

 

[Darkfinn]

If you read the Star Wars books... you will discover that it was a protective undergarment. The original idea was that he was supposed to be nude... but that would have never gotten by the censors... so they improvised something else. Not much more is said about it... as patients in bacta tanks were kept sedated they didn't really produce much waste. But if it makes you feel any better you can consider it a diaper.

 

[MarcusBear]

Ask George Lucas.

Don't communicate or make eye contact with George Lucas, if we ignore him perhaps he'll eventually go away and play with his General Grievous action figures.

 

[teddy564339]

Yeah...I mean, of course they didn't use an actual diaper for it, and calling it a "diaper" in the movie would have just come across as silly.

But...it does LOOK like a diaper. And as others have said, I would imagine that it would have served the same purpose in that situation...not just be used as clothing.

So I don't think anyone thinking "diaper" when they first saw it is someone who goes around looking for and getting excited about diapers everywhere they see them.

 

[Kovy]

I was wondering the same thing! (Username from TBDL was Han Solo)

 

[kik91]

Actually, I'm going to say yes this time! Look closely, it is!

 

[Maverick]

Actually, I'm going to say yes this time! Look closely, it is!

What makes it any different from a protective undergarment?

 

[satyrical]

Let's be honest with ourselves- do we REALLY want to picture Mark Hamill in a diaper?