I remember George talking in DVD commentary for ANH (if this is wrong, someone correct me. Could be in another one of the OT movies, but I'm pretty sure it is Episode IV,) how the saga is told from the two droids' point of view. He expanded that to the droids having a part of the entire saga, so you could go as far as to say the entire saga is told from their viewpoint!
The original Star Wars is a very classically and carefully structured piece of cinema, and it's definitely told from the droid's viewpoint. I think that ideal was much looser in the following two movies, so I'd say it's a stretch that the whole saga is from their point-of-view, but they're obviously a presence throughout.
But, regarding Anakin's involvement, it only makes sense to me that he might have built Artoo. It's not real science that matters here, it's movie logic. Although both robots are technically complex, it is because of Artoo's personality that he speaks much more highly of Anakin's abilities.
And that doesn't require taking the heroic repair job away from him. That scene was obviously contrived to introduce him, so it could simply be contrived at a different spot. A flock of robots driving out onto the hull to fix a severed wire is a little silly anyway. Imagine this instead: the ship is damaged, and either they have no droids, or none can fix it, and that's why they have to land. On Tatooine they meet Artoo, who comes with. NOW something goes wrong. They could be attacked again - could be Trade goons, or maybe Jabba discovered them and sent his own cronies (interesting chance to see another culture's space tech)- or maybe Obi-Wan is simply a lousy mechanic and his upgrades break. My vote is that Maul is after them, and Obi-wan didn't get the hyperdrive working right, and Anakin and Artoo work together to get it running in time - probably requiring Artoo's spacewalk. Makes them both look good.
And what about Threepio? He's easy. As a protocol droid, he fits nicely into any official hospitality capacity, of which there are plenty, since the prequels deal with so many politicians. It was nice meeting a counter-part of his right off the bat, and frankly, I was expecting to see many more. For instance, you know who could probably use such a droid in their employ, but was conspicuously missing one? Amidala. So, that's my answer: Threepio works for Amidala. Which means we meet him in Naboo, and he's been along with the main characters the whole time. Probably we first see him on the escape ship - it would make sense for him to be stationed there, since it's sortof Naboo's Air Force One. Again, the movie logic side of my brain really likes this idea, because it means one droid belongs to Anakin, and the other to Padme. Nice and symmetrical.
The young boy couldn't yet filter out what to feel and what not to feel, so he took the path of being a normal, innocent boy. So as that boy got older, he started being able to understand these emotions. But understanding emotions doesn't mean you can deal with them. Anakin, being a Jedi, having to supress all these wild emotions, was required by nature to become a brat.
The original Star Wars is a very classically and carefully structured piece of cinema, and it's definitely told from the droid's viewpoint. I think that ideal was much looser in the following two movies, so I'd say it's a stretch that the whole saga is from their point-of-view, but they're obviously a presence throughout.
But, regarding Anakin's involvement, it only makes sense to me that he might have built Artoo. It's not real science that matters here, it's movie logic. Although both robots are technically complex, it is because of Artoo's personality that he speaks much more highly of Anakin's abilities.
And that doesn't require taking the heroic repair job away from him. That scene was obviously contrived to introduce him, so it could simply be contrived at a different spot. A flock of robots driving out onto the hull to fix a severed wire is a little silly anyway. Imagine this instead: the ship is damaged, and either they have no droids, or none can fix it, and that's why they have to land. On Tatooine they meet Artoo, who comes with. NOW something goes wrong. They could be attacked again - could be Trade goons, or maybe Jabba discovered them and sent his own cronies (interesting chance to see another culture's space tech)- or maybe Obi-Wan is simply a lousy mechanic and his upgrades break. My vote is that Maul is after them, and Obi-wan didn't get the hyperdrive working right, and Anakin and Artoo work together to get it running in time - probably requiring Artoo's spacewalk. Makes them both look good.
And what about Threepio? He's easy. As a protocol droid, he fits nicely into any official hospitality capacity, of which there are plenty, since the prequels deal with so many politicians. It was nice meeting a counter-part of his right off the bat, and frankly, I was expecting to see many more. For instance, you know who could probably use such a droid in their employ, but was conspicuously missing one? Amidala. So, that's my answer: Threepio works for Amidala. Which means we meet him in Naboo, and he's been along with the main characters the whole time. Probably we first see him on the escape ship - it would make sense for him to be stationed there, since it's sortof Naboo's Air Force One. Again, the movie logic side of my brain really likes this idea, because it means one droid belongs to Anakin, and the other to Padme. Nice and symmetrical.
The young boy couldn't yet filter out what to feel and what not to feel, so he took the path of being a normal, innocent boy. So as that boy got older, he started being able to understand these emotions. But understanding emotions doesn't mean you can deal with them. Anakin, being a Jedi, having to supress all these wild emotions, was required by nature to become a brat.
You know, I'm sure you can find a way to explain any of his actions, but it didn't come across to me on the screen. It's not that he wasn't emotional enough, or the scene wasn't emotional enough - it's just the emotions seemed contrived... they seemed inconsistent. But I don't want to debate this subject much, because it could go on forever, and I think it's off-topic here.