Akwat Kbrana said:
No, for the analogy to make sense he would have had to find a disassembled lexicon which he carefully pieced together into perfect working order, only so his illiterate mother could use it as a paperweight. Which is ridiculous.
You are right about the pieces, but it's
Akwat Kbrana said:
As far as we know, he somehow specifically set out to built a protocol droid to help his mother, presumably with her ordinary day-to-day activities. Which, again, is absurd.
How?
Akwat Kbrana said:
For another, it shrinks the universe and introduces a level of "convenience" that stretches credulity beyond the breaking point.
I'm sorry but "convenience that stretches credulity" is something that happened in every episode of the saga. I don't think that can be raised as an argument.
Akwat Kbrana said:
Then of course, to top it off, there's the fact that a junk dealer's slave would have no need for a droid specifically designed for etiquette/protocol and translating over six million languages."
If a protocol droid can do what he wants, who cares if it's protocol or astromech? Speaking of astromech, why would Luke need R2 on a farm? To fix vaporators? It's the same thing.
Akwat Kbrana said:
Now who's hitting the strawman? ;) In my defence, although I'm rather a fan of ROTJ, nevertheless I've always contended that the Luke-Leia sibling relationship is absurdly stupid and fanwakery on nearly the same level as all the inbred universe-shrinking of the PT.
The "universe-shrinking" started with TESB.
Akwat Kbrana said:
There's a good reason most of us OT fans/"PT bashers" consider ROTJ to be the weakest of the OT...
Yet it's part of the beloved (by me too) OT. And it doesn't mean the other two have only small faults.