Tim C Field: And then not recognizing 3PO and R2 at all when they mysteriously show up on the Death Star several years later.

a dumb thing prequels do is answer shit that doesn't need answered (e.g. where han solo came from—a greedy guy is named greedo here, we're fine) and create permanently irreconcilable questions, like: how is "he fucked a robot" not in the first 3 things you say about a guy you know who fucked a robot

"Lando system?" "Lando's not a system, he's a man. Lando Calrissian. He's a card player, gambler, fucks droids. You'd like him."

"actually the robot he used to fuck got lobotomized and IS the ship we've been flying around in, try not to bring it up"

Darth Vader building C-3PO is the dumbest thing in the galaxy

And then not recognizing 3PO and R2 at all when they mysteriously show up on the Death Star several years later.

Like, this random space trucker comes to his super secure base and the passenger list includes his son, his daughter, his former jedi master, the protocol droid he built as a kid, and the astromech droid he fought a whole war with and he only recognizes one of them.

I can kind of handwave the “doesn’t recognize them” away because the very first interior shot in all of Star Wars is of R2 and two nearly-identical protocol droids. The implication to me is they’re a dime-a-dozen, so not recognizing the droids from a distance wouldn’t mean anything.

Having not made time to watch these I genuinely don't know if some or all of you are riffing or remembering... and it sounds like I shouldn't bother finding out?

There are no lies in the previous posts, god help us all.

Thank you all for your service.

Space-Face Blindness.

Thank you for the evergreen mantra I tell myself: "You can just watch Star Wars (1977) and leave things right there."

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