This was the moment I checked out of the prequels. Vader, as a child, built C-3PO? I'm supposed to continue suspending my disbelief, now? Impossible.
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Definitely one of my least favorite aspects of them. Everyone must get a backstory, and they must all be interrelated. The galaxy's a small place apparently.
Story takes place in a whole-ass galaxy. Everyone winds up back on Tatooine for some stupid reason; the planet with barely one ecosystem, practically zero vegetation, no economy that matters, yet populated with two (?) cities. Other planets also have exactly one ecosystem, culture, and one optional urban center^1^. There's also only 12 or so planets that matter, yet half of everyone you meet are from all the other ones. You may not like what you see, but this is peak sci-fi writing performance, right here. /s
This story could take place in a diverse corner of a single Earth-like planet and it wouldn't be all that different.
^1^ - Meanwhile planet Coruscant is an urban center where the ecosystem can best be described as "traffic" and the culture is "city folk that inexplicably eat at 1950's-style diners".
Exactly this.
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Maybe C3PO was a kit. Like a gay robot Lego set for ages 5-12. Those Jawas can sell practically anything.
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Right? And Luke leaving behind a prosperous moisture farming career to go fight baddies? Um, no thank you. Know your audience, Lucas.
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When Vader found out it was R2 he was up against, he knew it was all over.
When R2 stole the plans Vader was looking for it changed his entire campaign.
For R2 it was Thursday.
It's no coincidence that R2 went to a planet full of sand.
You mean the planet full of sand that's somehow central to the entire Skywalker saga despite supposedly being a remote mostly criminal hideout in the outer rim.
And actually the droids were there to deliver Leia's message to Obi-Wan.
Yea I wonder if that was ever addressed? I don’t remember the movies much and I never read the books but Vader must have seen, like, security footage or something and been like hey wait a fucking a second.
Why would he look at security footage? He's not a cop from the 80s, he just commands his army to find those. He's not evil enought to micromanage.
Levels of Evil
Level I - burn kittens and watch them suffer
Level II - build a space weapon so massive it blows up planets
Level III - micromanage your minions and review security footage
Imagine standing around during guard duty and Darth Vader calls up saying if you have time to lean you have time to clean.
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There are plenty of 3P and R2 series robots running around. There's no reason to believe he thought he knew them.
Further, there's a comic where he sees C-3PO's blasted body and has a flashback. So even though they didn't share the screen, Vader did share a moment.
My actual biggest issue is that Vader stood in front of Leia and didn't seem to have any idea that she could use the force or that she was his daughter.
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Characterized by extreme refinement or self-indulgence, often to the point of unworldiness or decadence
Damn you meme, making me learn a new word.
You know there's just some middle school English teacher out there making memes just for this purpose.
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Oh yeah, I built that one. How did I completely forget about C-3PO? That's weird that I never mentioned C-3PO ever again since I was 9 even though building a sentient robot from scratch that can speak 6 million languages would make me one of the smartest living beings in the entire galaxy.
Considering he was a standard protocol droid (E chu ta!), he probably built him from the scrap of previously deactivated ones. Still impressive, but certainly not "from scratch."
The Betty Crocker of droids.
I imagine it’s like someone building a computer today. You plug in all the relevant components together but it doesn’t require too much expertise.
That's how building a computer has been for 20 years.
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R2D2 probably remembers Anakin wiping out the Jedi. I wonder if he can get PTSD
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There are many gold protocol droids and Blue astromech droids. They aren't unique
But together? It's not like they commonly run in the same circles and team up for espionage missions.
Sure, but do those other droids tend to accompany each other everywhere in the galaxy?
Seems like it would vary based on how close to Naboo you were. The protocol droids like C3PO seem to be common everywhere, while R2D2 seems to be the rarer of the two, especially after the end of the Clone Wars.