Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I will admit that Empire is the movie where 3PO became extremely whiny and high-pitched, although not nearly as high-pitched as he would be in the prequels.

I read about this sometimes and he is. I don't know why but they also really punished the droid for his crimes too; he really got bashed and abused in ESB... I felt rather sad back when I first saw ESB when Threepio was "dead." It just wasn't the same star wars feel without him being a pain in R2's ass...

Considering he was really a pile of junk throughout most of the movie, I could understand why he'd complain a lot at that point. Before that, he's just kinda annoying to r2 and han with his pessimistic attitude and understandbly Han shuts him up and is constantly berating threepio. He probably wishes he could chuck him out into space.

Now that I think of it, I can't remember why he was even in the new movies... he didn't do anything really except be the only robot to get its memory erased by Jimmy Smits. Weird.

Oh and here's a little rant: Threepio is battered and abused in all of the OT, but that jar jar character who really deserves to be blasted to pieces got away with only a few kicks to the scrodum. I think that is just unfair though granted getting hit in the scrodum hurts for us human males, we don't know how it really affects the gungans. And I can't believe I'm thinking about gungan scrodums...