Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
I disagree with the charge that it would shrink the SW universe. The characters were created to be our companions through the story.

I never got that impression. C3PO and R2D2 always seemed like like the little guys of the stories to me. They had obscure lives in the past, they had probably had their minds wiped multiple times, and they were easy to sympathize with in terms of the fact that they had no control over what they did. I'm sure they witnessed a number of interesting events, but those events were separate from the main characters of the PT in my mind.

The PT did make poor use of droids, but that doesn't mean it needed to interject the original duo to get that working. Invent new droids if anything.