This is one thing about the new movies that doesn't bother me. Droids ARE just toasters to everyone but Luke and Anakin. Also Anakin only flew with R2 as his co-pilot for 3 years. For the previous 10 years he probably used different R2s. ObiWan's red one got decapitated and he didn't really care. And that was the r2 he was most familiar with. And every politician seems to have protocol droids, and they probably all have that subservient butler personality.Except that silver one on Bespin who said "eat my ass" in space language to 3P0. He's awesome, by the way.