EyeShotFirst said:
How the hell was C3PO supposed to help a slave? She didn't exactly seem like she was in the line of work that would require a snooty robot that translates. C3PO would be more useful for somebody important, who goes across the stars speaking to creatures with bizarre languages, like pamadalan.
Have you even seen Star Wars? The versions I most remember involved C3PO whining and complaining every time anything happened. The only time he was ever useful was as a translator.
So, are you saying that a protocol droid couldn't help her with house work? Or that a astromech droid was more suitable for the task? Anyway, it's not like the kid had much of a choice. He found the remains, and built it in secret.
EyeShotFirst said:
C3PO would be more useful for somebody important, who goes across the stars speaking to creatures with bizarre languages, like pamadalan.
Of course he would. Who's to say that the queen didn't have one? R2 was not her personal droid, he happened to be on a starship, where he rightfuly belongs.
EyeShotFirst said:
Have you even seen Star Wars? The versions I most remember involved C3PO whining and complaining every time anything happened. The only time he was ever useful was as a translator.
Are you judging the kid's choice based on the droid's future self? Is Anakin supposed to know how C-3PO will be 30 years later?!
Chewtobacca said:
RLM explained that it wouldn't make sense for Anakin to construct Threepio to help Shmi by observing that a protocol droid wouldn't be much use in the home.
That's his personal opinion. Where did he observe that?
Chewtobacca said:
If Lucas has to have Anakin build one of the two droids, it is more logical for him to build Artoo (to help himself)
But he didn't build the droid to help himself at the store, but his mother at home. If he needed a droid at the store, Watto would have provided one.
Chewtobacca said:
a ruler might reasonably be expected to have more use for an interpreter than a mechanical droid on a day-to-day basis.
R2 served the queen on a day-to-day basis?! Where? And I thought they only met on the ship after he did a task that he was built to do.