Anchorhead said:
No. It's not even bothered with in the book. In fact, when Vader shuts both droids down, he simply tells them to shut down. Since they're programmed to follow orders, they just shut down. No code words are needed or used and the command is just the phrase...shut down.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
But obviously that plot point did not exist in any way at the time this book was written, so how exactly would Darth Vader be so intimately aware with 3PO's programming?
3PO mentions it in passing, but it's never used. It's just his usual blathering on while people are trying to have a conversation.
The book was written 21 years before TPM, by someone other than Lucas. It's a coincidence, nothing more.
Is it explained at all?
But obviously that plot point did not exist in any way at the time this book was written, so how exactly would Darth Vader be so intimately aware with 3PO's programming?
3PO mentions it in passing, but it's never used. It's just his usual blathering on while people are trying to have a conversation.
The book was written 21 years before TPM, by someone other than Lucas. It's a coincidence, nothing more.
Is it explained at all?
No. It's not even bothered with in the book. In fact, when Vader shuts both droids down, he simply tells them to shut down. Since they're programmed to follow orders, they just shut down. No code words are needed or used and the command is just the phrase...shut down.
Um, not in the book I read. Could you have read a "Special Edition"? ;) Mine is indeed an old copy. Original paperback, if I'm not mistaken. Picked it up at a garage sale when I was a kid, back in 1980 I think. There is no narrative of Vader shutting down the droids. We are aware that it happened because Vader tells Luke: "As for your 'droids, they are conditioned to obey orders. I had them turn themselves off." The methodology of this is later explained when C-3PO says, "He knew all the proper code words and commands." The comic book adaptation is similar to this.
Anchorhead said:
In fact, Vader tells Luke that's why they obeyed him, because he had just become their new owner.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Interesting aspect, though, that anybody can simply say, "Shut down," to a droid. One, I would think that a droid would only obey his master's directive to do that.
Interesting aspect, though, that anybody can simply say, "Shut down," to a droid. One, I would think that a droid would only obey his master's directive to do that.
In fact, Vader tells Luke that's why they obeyed him, because he had just become their new owner.
Again, not in my copy of the book. Weird.
Of course I saw the similarities to elements later seen in the movies. The primitive Coway defeating the Imperials was akin to the Ewoks (or Wookies in early screenplays) doing the same. The Wandrella reminded me of a terrestrial form of the ESB space slug, not of the Sarlaac as you saw it.
Does anyone know how ADF went about writing this? -- zombie84? Was he given guidelines? Did he have the old screenplays and free reign to use ideas that didn't make it into Star Wars?