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Yes I read that explanation as well, although based on what we saw on film the katana seemingly are just made of a special metal that maintains it shape when superheated and the prosthetics both generate the heat and protect her from it (ZS may have used the term molten metal but that's technically a misnomer, as that literally means heated to its liquid form). When she fought the spider chick they originally weren't heated up (she even dropped them at one point but then got them back), but it's not like she had a 2nd set on hand. When she eventually lit them up they were the same swords.
One thing about that fight that struck me as odd was that early on I distinctly recall Snyder made a point of showing the spider chick piercing/damaging one of what we now know was one of Nemesis's gauntlets. Despite that happening she was still able to heat up both of her katana. Makes one think that he was initially going to have her fight with one "hot" and one "cold" katana during the 2nd phase of the duel but then changed his mind.
I agree with what you’re saying. The relationship between the regular swords and the super heated ones (Snyder refers to them as molten metal, I’ll go with that--they do look sort of whippy in motion) is unclear and a bit confusing.
Just an aside, but I assume that the cybernetic forearm that gets pierced is self-repairing, presumably using the same sort of concept that in the BvS prequel comic that features Kara Zor-El it shows that the Kryptonian bio-tech is able to repair the ship’s hull when it gets damaged. All the Kryptonian technology is derived from biology, which is pretty cool.
In this podcast Zack explains that given the Netflix mandate to make a 2 hour PG13 cut (even there he took it to 2:16, lol) alongside his much longer R-rated cut, he and the writers had a lot of tough decisions about how to trim down what he had from gigantic script (about
I’m going to keep an eye out for the flow to the editing of that scene in the extended cut to see if it makes more sense.
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