I’ve heard alot of people complain that Lucas just threw them in there to appease the fans and to try to tie the two trilogies together. However, I was reading through the Making of… book for ROTS and came upon something I had forgotten.

R2D2 has to be in every film, atleast, to maintain George Lucas’s original vision. The Journal of the Whills is the story recorded by The Whills as R2D2 tells it to him, hundreds of years later. The opening title card, “A long time ago…” is basically R2D2 starting the story. I know the whole ‘recounting’ of the story idea was dropped, but having R2 in all the films seems alittle more thought out than just throwing him in their for little to no reason.

So can we agree that gripe is bunk, or not?