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#1 diligent_d

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 02:58 AM

Was just watching the OT Star Wars, where R2-D2 was a normal droid.

It thus begged the question: Is there anything in all the PT quite as repugnant at R2-D2 flying in AOTC? Who was the asshole son-of-a-bitch at Lucasfilms that thought that one up? Since Lucas now does nothing without clearance from his gang of shit-head lackeys, I wonder who it was who thought it would be cool that R2 should all of a sudden fly?

Why would he fly?

Why?

I know this thread has been made countless time before, but I felt inclined to make it one more time.

Why? Why?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 04:14 AM

Well, he's a droid. Supposed to repair things. And do some other stuff. Quite a versatile one. Why not give him wings?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 08:21 AM

Oh I'd be willing to bet it was Lucas himself.

The only answer I can give you as to why is this: George Lucas is an idiot.

There is absolutely no other possible explanation. It defys all logic and one can only assume GL thought it would be cool.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 08:40 AM

Well, he's a droid. Supposed to repair things. And do some other stuff. Quite a versatile one. Why not give him wings?

Not make him transform so he can walk around like C3PO? Why not give him human speech, too? I mean, that's something he could "lose later" before the OT. He could be a multi-tasking droid? How about laserguns and his own lightsaber? Maybe Lucas didn't go far enough...

I've wondered why Lucas bothered with little jets. Obviously there are anti-gravity technologies. Why don't we just attach those to artoo and he wouldn't need leg-wheels at all.

Abbey's right. Lucas is an idiot,and I can come with just as idiotic ideas, too.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 08:42 AM

Yeah, those were some pretty good ideas... ever thought about writing a script and sending it to the GL-man?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 09:57 AM

What, and have him claim later it was all his idea?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 11:22 AM

Dont you guys understand? When the Empire took over, they put an embargo on fuel for the Rebellion. R2 could not fuel his jets in order to fly because the Rebels needed the precious fuel for X wings and A wings etc

It seems like everyone is over the nitpicking. Too bad.

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:26 PM

boba fett stole them for his back pack

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:31 PM

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 09:38 AM

I don't think he was being serious.

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Posted 29 March 2006 - 07:12 PM

QUOTE (Gobbler @ Feb 22 2006, 03:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, he's a droid. Supposed to repair things. And do some other stuff. Quite a versatile one. Why not give him wings?

Exactly. The astromech droids (which is what Artoo is) are the Swiss Army knives of the droid population. They are built for space travel... usually on the outside of a vessel... and those jets could act as an 'eject' for the droid if and when the vessel is damaged almost to the point of explosion. I think Artoo is a little above average as far as astromech droids are concerned, mainly due to the fact that Anakin installed a lot of aftermarket modifications on him.

To answer Cowboy Curtis' question about giving an astromech droid human speech, it's been done, but not to Artoo. The astromech droid aboard the Ylesian robot ship in 'The Paradise Snare' (The first book in the Han Solo Trilogy) speaks Basic (English). Kenny Baker (R2-D2) had enough trouble inside the robot shell just trying to stand upright without falling over, and you think Lucas should have made him walk?!? In the immortal words of Dr. Evil, "Riiiiiiiiight."

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Posted 29 March 2006 - 07:44 PM

Hmmm.... why are astromech droids so much crappier than other droids? 3PO can speak 6 trillion languages but R2D2 can only beep like a cracked out smoke detector? That’s stupid. And why not give all droids jet packs, so when your astromech droid gets eaten by a swamp monster, your protocol droid can step in and fix your ship. Seems like a waste to make a droid so limited. Its not like they didn’t have super computers and microchips in a galaxy far far away.

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Posted 29 March 2006 - 08:41 PM

although, everyone seems to understand R2D2 and chewbacca.

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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:45 PM

QUOTE (barend @ Mar 29 2006, 07:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

although, everyone seems to understand R2D2 and chewbacca.

Not quite everybody, but close. Wookiees lack the vocalization qualities of humans, but they can understand Basic (English). For humans, it's vice versa, but not all humans understand Wookiee. Another thing to keep in mind: R2-D2 was created in the mid 1970's, as was his chirping, beeping voice. Remember how those old 14.4 modems sounded when they communicated with other computers? That's why the weird noises from Artoo.

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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:54 PM

Not that this is an answer, but the only reason I can think of for R2 not having jets in the first place back in the day was because of technology restraints at Lucasfilm.

Isn't he an astromech droid?

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