Bingowings said:
The Golden Idol said:
Bingowings said:
P.S. On the subject of Threepio I remember that Lucas originally intended to give him a used car salesman voice and we are short of a Han Solo style positive cynic it might be possible to keep Threepio but give him a very different way of expressing himself (something like Bender from "Futurama") which would explain why Owen doesn't recognise him (he looks different and he sounds different too).

Then 3PO would be unrecognizable by the audience! I say just cut 'im out.

The audience and R2 would know who he was but Owen and Beru wouldn't and Ben and Vader would only suspect it.

Basically he could be the same character but with a different voice and mode of expression.

Look at Han in ANH, "I'm not going anywhere", "What's the point of getting a reward if you ain't around to use it?" etc.

Is it that different to "I'm not getting in there", "This is suicide" etc (only the voice is different, the words mean almost the same thing).

Both appear on the surface to be self surving but when push comes to shove Han saves Luke and Threepio's first concern in Cloud City is to warn the others about the Stormtroopers.

If Threepio started off as this blunt, slightly oily character and lost his memories and gained a new voice but still acted the same, it would play against the expectations of the audience and give an editor a character that could say almost anything to change the mode of the story.

Threepio met another protocol droid which bad mouthed him in Cloud City (in a very different voice) so why not have him start out that way before his memory got wiped?

I was thinking just make him a different protocol droid altogether. He could be removed in TPM and in AOTC he could just be the Lar's old protocol droid with a new voice.