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Originally posted by: R2-G2
Next to Anakin, C-3PO was the most poorly conceived character in the prequel trilogy.
Go on then Shakespeare, how was Anakin poorly conceived?
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Anakin built C-3PO??? How utterly ridiculous. I guess Shmi just took him with her whenever Watto sold her?
Why not? It was Shmi's legal property.
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Isn't C-3PO a protocol droid, well versed in all the customs, fluent in over 6,000,000 forms of communication? Wouldn't it have made more sense storywise for Threepio to be in the diplomatic service, either on Naboo, with the Jedi, or even with the Senate?
No. Anakin found the frame of the droid, he didn't build that.
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Of course, Owen doesn't recognize him in ANH. Oh yeah, different color scheme, yeah, that's right... sure.
Would you recognize a car that a friend of yours drove if you saw it 20 years later in a junkyard with a different coat of paint on it?
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C-3PO's lines in the OT are still all pretty funny and come from the character and make sense (especially in ANH and TESB, ROTJ has a few groaners, but I'll forgive them) However, the whole putting his head on the battledroid was such a pathetic farce: "This is such a drag"??? (I'll bet GL laughed his head off when they came across that part in the first cast script reading, though I am sure the rest of the cast and crew just started inspecting the creases in their pants.)
Yeah cuz you were there, right? How do you even know that Lucas (and not Hales) wrote that part?
- Trentobi