- 'not sure if this is even ‘fixable’ but it has ALWAYS bothered me:
in ANH Threepio says he’s
"just a translator,and not very good at telling stories…'or at least at making them interesting…"
yet in ROTJ he regales the Ewok village with stories of our heroes adventures to date-with sound effects and everything! did he get a 'storyteller upgrade?? 'As I said I’ve not a clue how you’d fix this but it’s always stuck out as a huge contradiction…(?)
Ah, that has always been my favourite moment in ROTJ! I read that scene as deliberately harkening back to Threepio’s line in ANH. This reference serves to illustrate just how much the droid has experienced since ANH - far beyond typical protocol! - and at the same time mythologises our heroes; cementing their exploits in legend. Witnessing the Ewoks rapt, enthralled by Threepio’s tale, reinforces the exceptional journey of our heroes; and this makes plausible Rey’s regard of Luke Skywalker as “myth”, in The Force Awakens.