Chase Adams said:
Hal 9000 said:
Yeah, me too. Axlanian, do you think you could make a regular voice recording sound like a FO trooper?
Are we sure there aren’t any better lines we can give the trooper? Don’t get me wrong, they’re funny, but perhaps that isn’t the direction we should be going in.
Agree with this, too.
I think the trooper trying to get 3P0 to stop rambling is still a good joke conceptually, but this current “Just kill me” doesn’t seem any more tonally appropriate of a joke than the theatrical version of the joke did. Very on the nose, and reminds me of the “SNL humor” that was deleted from Hal’s edit of TLJ.
Maybe something a bit more serious from the trooper, with the scene as a whole still working as a joke due to 3P0. After the “Stop talking,” which I do think could stay, maybe the second line is something like “Somebody take him to reconditioning/reprogramming.” Still works as comedic if done in a more annoyed/exasperated voice rather than a threatening one, like the trooper is just trying to get on with his shift.
And while we’re at it, I’m not a big fan of “And I will be your protocol droid!” when they’re flying toward the cruiser. This line seems out of place to me in the context. Why would C-3P0 assume he’s going to be Chewie’s once they find him? Maybe it wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for a first time viewer, though.