Bingowings said:
I mentioned this in my first post on the ROTJ Wishlist Thread.

George made three films where two droids were meant to be characters we cared about and two where the torture of humans was suitably horrific (within the set audience parameters naturally) and in ROTJ he dropped in a comedy droid torture scene.

COMEDY droid torture scene? How was it comedy?

C3PX said:
generalfrevious said:
Hate to say it, but I was never bothered by tortured droids (they're just metal after all)

I don't think anyone was bother by the droids being tortured in a "holy hell! how can they show this kind of thing to little kids! This is awful!"

but in more of a, "Whoa, they are torturing droids. this is seriously lame..." kind of way.

I don't see how it was lame. We had R2 D2 and C3PO treated as people with feelings from the beginning. People with feelings can be tortured and you can care when it happens. The scene worked quite well and added to the intensity of the film. I certainly don't see it as comical or lame.