Toasters also don't have personalities. It might be more appropriate to equate the droids to beloved family pets that one most certainly never forgets. If anything the series has shown the droids R2 and 3PO to be viewed as indispensible and irreplaceable companions to the main characters whom they serve. They most certainly are not viewed as appliances. Toasters also don't have personalities. It might be more appropriate to equate the droids to beloved family pets that one most certainly never forgets. If anything the series has shown the droids R2 and 3PO to be viewed as indispensible and irreplaceable companions to the main characters whom they serve. They most certainly are not viewed as appliances.