G E Predator said:
Bingowings said:
Don't forget the relationship between droid and non-droid in the Star Wars universe is one of slavery.
Threepio and Artoo are well liked (one the whole) by their owner/masters but they are not considered much more than property.
Unless someone writes a droid Spartacus storyline into Episodes VII through to IX they (and the Clonetroopers) are slaves and would never be given medals (even by the so called good guys).
Oh, I remember that all too well. In my eyes, though, R2-D2 and C-3PO have proven themselves to be more equals with people than any other droid has. True, they needed masters to care for them in order to continue to function. But their masters needed them just as much, especially in ROTJ when 3PO used his translation abilities to communicate with the Ewoks and convinced to aid the Rebels.
Sure that's how we are meant to see them but the fact that our heroes don't paints them in a slightly less than glossy white than some people believe.
I wish we did get a sequel trilogy which explored what happens to the Rebels once they win.
Ben looks back at the Old Republic as a golden age but when we see it in TPM we find that the rot had already set in before Palpatine starts working the system.
Project ROTJ into the future and will the good guys still be the good guys if they allow slavery (droid and non-droid) to continue and what do you do with Death Star technology once someone had built a couple of them, what do you do with the Stormtroopers (I know that the EU tells us they stopped being clones but as far as the films go they are slaves too)?
Will Luke's Jedi be as hamstrung by dogma as the Jedi in his father's day?
Will Leia go as bad as her dad?
There is plenty of ground to cover in a sequel trilogy, Lucas is possibly not the guy to do it though.
He's rejigged the story so it's all about Anakin.
He might as well stop calling it Star Wars and just call it The Anakin Saga.
