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I want to sit down with George Lucas, and say:
"George, why, if R2D2 has thrusters that can boost him in and out of a starfighter, does the Rebel Alliance need a crane to get him in and out of Luke's X-Wing?"
I want to know what he says. "R2 had grown accustomed to being pampered by the end of A New Hope."
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 02:48 PM
Or why did he fall into the swamp?
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 02:55 PM
QUOTE (Magee @ Jun 2 2005, 02:35 PM)
I want to sit down with George Lucas, and say:
"George, why, if R2D2 has thrusters that can boost him in and out of a starfighter, does the Rebel Alliance need a crane to get him in and out of Luke's X-Wing?"
I want to know what he says. "R2 had grown accustomed to being pampered by the end of A New Hope."
"George, why, if R2D2 has thrusters that can boost him in and out of a starfighter, does the Rebel Alliance need a crane to get him in and out of Luke's X-Wing?"
I want to know what he says. "R2 had grown accustomed to being pampered by the end of A New Hope."
Why couldn't R2 just fly around the Death Star, squirting oil on Stormtroopers and lighting them? Why couldn't R2 get out of the sand on Tattoine after falling off of Jabba's sail barge? Why couldn't R2 get around the Cloud City easier? Blah blah blah. At least have R2's legs get blasted off or something in the PT, to be replaced with jet-less legs.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:00 PM
R2D2 is made this way in the new films so that fanboys can freak out over how awesome his moves are. As we can see, prequel inconsistencies are something we are just going to have to put up with.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:28 PM
I was reading the Essential Guide to Characters entry on R2 the other day (don't ask me why) and it actually mentioned his rocket jets. Apparently they were removed sometime between Ep. III and Ep. IV, for reasons that were not explained. I thought it was kind of funny that the authors went out of their way to justify the jets' disappearance.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:39 PM
Someone has to correct Lucas' mistakes.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:42 PM
Don't you know that when IG-88 attacked the Tantive IV that R2 attached his rockets to IG's buttcheeks thus saving his best friend with Alzheimers, C3P0?
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All I know is I haven't seen the real prequels yet.
Battle for the Galaxy--read the "other Star Wars"
All I know is I haven't seen the real prequels yet.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 03:52 PM
While we're on the topic of Artoo's antics, did anyone else have a problem with that idiotic "duel" he had with the Buzzdroid in the opening scene? The Jedi seem to forget they're in the middle of a huge space battle and start yelling advice and congradulations to Artoo! I'd be willing to bet that they had a cute little award ceremony for him on the ground afterwards, with Palpatine there to pin a medal on him! WTF??
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 04:08 PM
That was just another excuse to give R2 more screen time. The buzz droids were actually a good idea, if they weren't in missiles that wouldv'e done a better job by exploding.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 05:49 PM
QUOTE (Commodore @ Jun 2 2005, 03:28 PM)
I was reading the Essential Guide to Characters entry on R2 the other day (don't ask me why) and it actually mentioned his rocket jets. Apparently they were removed sometime between Ep. III and Ep. IV, for reasons that were not explained. I thought it was kind of funny that the authors went out of their way to justify the jets' disappearance.
After the storm of protests from this stupid development in AOTC, some official LucasOrgan (probably starwars.com) explained everything. They said that the jets were removed because they only had a 20 year warranty.
That satisfied the morons over at theforce.net.
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 06:38 PM
i brought this up earlier, hoping to hear some gushers wonderful explanations...
http://www.chefelf.c...?showtopic=3282
nothing so far...
i like the fact that he has an official profile where they actually basically say... "we don't know either..."
http://www.chefelf.c...?showtopic=3282
nothing so far...
i like the fact that he has an official profile where they actually basically say... "we don't know either..."
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Posted 02 June 2005 - 11:07 PM
First of all. I couldn't imagine why R2 would need a NEXTEL. Secondly, I'd have to say that While Bail Organa was filling up holes, wiping c3pos memory, he decided to also take out R2's boosters. GL was probably thinkin about the soaring gas prices.
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Posted 03 June 2005 - 12:00 AM
QUOTE (Commodore @ Jun 2 2005, 03:52 PM)
While we're on the topic of Artoo's antics, did anyone else have a problem with that idiotic "duel" he had with the Buzzdroid in the opening scene? The Jedi seem to forget they're in the middle of a huge space battle and start yelling advice and congradulations to Artoo! I'd be willing to bet that they had a cute little award ceremony for him on the ground afterwards, with Palpatine there to pin a medal on him! WTF??
WTF indeed. Way to go Artoo! (Obi-wan pitches and rolls to pat R2 on the back).
for 3PO, R2 not getting his memory wiped is like Sam watching Frodo float off to the grey havens.