Not by Smaug. He was was sleeping in his pile of gold. But they would've gotten there too early. As they would've had to wait for that special moonlit night.
We just watched TESB Saturday for the first time since original theatrical release. Great looking movie. So many reptiles. Who wrote that moronic dialogue? Not Leigh Brackett.
My son told me,"Because Obi wan told Luke in front of R2 that Vader killed his father, R2 was not going to undermine obi wan." My wife replied, "In other words, men covering for men." He answers,"Droids trusting wise Jedi." I can't win. @jojofromjerz.bsky.social, her license plate reads Jersey Girl.
Ohh if she'd follow up on that gem of a question, going up to Senate Majority Leader Thune and House Speaker Johnson with,"You were here for the whole story, so why didn't you ever just tell the country that Putin is Trump's daddy?"
Luke’s next order of business upon learning the real id of his father should have been to go find R2 and ream him a new data port over this.
Lazy writing I guess..
R2-D2 & C-3PO’ve been together since The Phantom Menace.
R2 had years to casually drop that info.
🔵 Hey, C-3PO, remember when we used to work for Anakin Skywalker?
🟡 Oh dear, yes.
🔵 Fun fact: he’s Darth Vader now.
🟡 WHAT?! We should tell Master Luke!
🔵 Nah, let’s just see how this plays out.
There was a book written before Disney bought the franchise where R2 was starting to malfunction due to some files he was storing. It ended up being Anakin almost killing Padme, R2 didn’t want Luke to see it because the droid didn’t want it to hurt him.
Obi Wan never knew Vader was Anakin. He only realized it when they got to the Death Star in Empire Strikes Back. He thought he had killed Anakin and therefore that is the info R2 would have.
I’d suggest you watch it more closely. Bail was specific to have the protocol droid’s memory wiped. He didn’t say both droids. Just the protocol droid.
That being said, standard procedure in war was to regularly wipe the memory of astrometrics, so I’d guess it happened at some point regardless.
The REAL question is why did Obi Wan tell Luke when they first met "Can't seem to remember ever owning a Droid before", when they were tight? They fought together, flew together, and R2 saved not only his life, but Luke's mom and Dad's lives too!!
Anakin built C3-PO. And if I remember correctly, R2 was owned by Jedi Order. So technically, Obi-Wan wasn't lying when he said that because he didn't personally own them.
True, but he acted like he didn't recognize him at all, and that strains credulity. I'm fine with it being a continuity error, but there's no denying that's what it is. There's no rational ret-con that could explain it as easily as the R2/Anakin issue in the OP.
How would R2 know? I mean, once Anakin becomes Vader, was R2 there for that? As far as the records go, Anakin died. Vader was born, and nobody really knew who Vader was outside of a few people.
I’ve got a book called “The Sound Effects of Star Wars,” and they talk about how originally R2D2 just had a speaking voice like C-3PO. There’s a sample of R2’s dialogue and it’s hilariously bad. He actually says, “adiose,” as he leaves C-3PO to go his own way.
I worked with an SFX artist who was on-set during ESB. After shooting there was a publicity photo shoot, but Peter had already left. My friend was the only one left with Peter’s dimensions, so he got to wear the costume. Can you imagine? There are pictures of Chewy out there that are my pal.
Because George Lucas is a shitty storyteller who never really intended to make anything past the first movie, which was an homage to the cliffhanger serials that he used to love that ran before Saturday matinee movies when he as a kid.
That's because your daughter Jojo, is extremely intelligent and even though it was a movie she could follow the plot line and using logic had to ask the question! 😁
The only reproductive act he ever witnessed was Anakin creating C3P-0, so he was unaware what he later witnessed Anakin doing with Padme would also result in the creation of a new life.
I don’t think that R2D2 realized that Anakin survived the fight with Obiwon. The name Darth Vader was not used during the fight on Mustafar. So, he had no reason to connect it.
Also R2D2 is a complete sociopath and an agent of chaos. Even if he'd known about Anakin/Vader, he would have kept quiet and laughed about it, probably while burning his enemies alive... again (as RotJ showed us, droids do feel pain).
After the trash shoot scene, Mark Hamill said he asked the film crew why his hair still looked nice after the ordeal. Harrison Ford replied, “It’s not that kind of movie, kid.”
Oh, correction to what I just said. Apparently they said, "Wipe the protocol droid's memory." That would mean R2D2 still got to keep his memory. I am not sure why they would have made an exclusion for R2D2. Hmmm...
At that point in the cannon everyone thought Anakin was killed by Obi Wan. Very few people knew who Vader really was. Not even Obi Wan knew until both of the twins were about 5 years old (as seen in the the Obi Wan series on Disney Plus.) Outside of that, only Ahsoka and Palpatine knew.
Yep. They immediately rushed the twins into hiding. Very few people outside of those that were in that circle even knew she was pregnant and that Anakin was the father.
Remember the look on his face when Padme told him that there was still good in him. He was crushed because in his mind, he left Anakin for dead after their duel and he didn't have the heart to tell her what happened. The exact moment he knew for sure that Vader was Anakin was in the middle of their
Not a Star Wars person. Saw first two movies in grammar school so don’t really know the whole story. Remember the revelation in Empire Strikes Back. Sounds like your very smart daughter just killed it for lots of folks 😂 😂 😂
In addition to what everyone else said, even if R2 did know Anakin was Vader, why *would* he tell him? Obi-Wan doesn't. Luke isn't likely to believe him anyway. He's stubborn and doesn't accept things until he's forced to.
He’s a very linear thinking AI, they don’t just have casual conversations about the past unprompted. Luke would’ve had to ask him about Darth Vader, and there really wouldn’t be a reason why Luke would do that
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the AI of youth.
“Master Luke I am C-3PO. This is my companion. R2D2”
“Beep boop squeak bleep”
“R2D2 says he was present at your birth and watched your mother die? Is that right?”
(Luke faints)
Back in the day, Republicans agreed Russia was enemy of USA
Lazy writing I guess..
R2 had years to casually drop that info.
🔵 Hey, C-3PO, remember when we used to work for Anakin Skywalker?
🟡 Oh dear, yes.
🔵 Fun fact: he’s Darth Vader now.
🟡 WHAT?! We should tell Master Luke!
🔵 Nah, let’s just see how this plays out.
Just like Mom.
No, no, lesson over: we can talk about C3P0 tomorrow.
( It's a joke) " What is Yoda's surname ?"
Yoda didn't tell Luke
Kenobi didn't tell Luke
R2-D2 didn't tell Luke
All those strong in the Force left it up to Anakin to tell Luke. They also didn't tell him about his sister.
Watch it again more closely.
That being said, standard procedure in war was to regularly wipe the memory of astrometrics, so I’d guess it happened at some point regardless.
Also, Vader.
It was C3PO who vastly overstated his ability to translate Mech Droid to English.
Because George Lucas is a shitty storyteller who never really intended to make anything past the first movie, which was an homage to the cliffhanger serials that he used to love that ran before Saturday matinee movies when he as a kid.
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Like Yoda saying "there is another". Obi would have already known that.
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I’d say that applies here, too 😉
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