Chewtobacca said:

It's the part where he quotes Threepio saying that he's not much more than an interpreter and says he doesn't say he washes dishes. Watch the review again. RLM does explain why he doesn't think that a protocol droid would be useful for Shmi.

Yet we know that protocol droids can drive vehicles and pilot starships, things that they were not made to do. Like I said, all he does is searching nits to pick, and that's hardly called a review.

Chewtobacca said:

I know that. I already said that if a Protocol droid wouldn't help his mother and Lucas wanted Anakin to build a droid, a more logical scenario was the one I outlined.

Right... A gonk is way more helpful...

Alexrd said:

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.

I never said that Artoo did.

Then what did you meant with your first post? It's not like the movie says anything otherwise.

Chewtobacca said:

I was outlining an alternative more logical scenario in which Anakin constructs Artoo in the films and the Queen is in possession of Threepio because she has a need for a protocol droid as a translator to help with her diplomatic functions.

I fail to see how one is more logical than the other. Is a protocol droid supposed to be with her when she was arrested? Why is it so hard to believe that a protocol droid can help at home?