walking_carpet said:

+1

that was supposed to be one of the charms of star wars - thru all the characters, storylines, trials and tribulations - r2d2 and c3pO would be the constant. Or at least...thats what we were told :(

Of course we all know what happened, and I actually remember Lucas in the EPisode II commentary stating that he had difficulty finding something for r2 to do!! :O Overall though, it was really C-3PO that was blatantly out of place and shoe-horned in. At least R2 had his moments in the opening of Episode III.

Even if it was all along PR sham to advertise more charm and character to the once proud saga formerly known as Star Wars, I hope the producers of the ST actually do recognize the importance of the Droids and work them (not shoe-horn) into the story. THere is room for both Ball-E and R2/3PO

and really, with all this talk of 'passing the torch' of the OT characters to the ST characters is there really a reason for the droids to pass the proverbial torch? unless there is a sub-plot in the ST about how they are becoming obsolete ;P

maybe thats why lucas wanted michael arndt!! to write something about the droids thats similar to the storyline of andy outgrowing the toys in toy story 3!!! :D

Didn't they put Artoo's memory into a new astromech body in the EU at some point?