Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!drforsey From: drforsey@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Forsey) Newsgroups: net.movies.sw Subject: Re: The real hero of SW1 and SW2 Message-ID: <489@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 11:16:09 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.489 Posted: Wed Jun 15 11:16:09 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 07:13:32 EDT References: <206@gatech.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 In addition to the comments about the "real hero" of SW, and ESB, does anyone else get the feeling that the little droid is not your everyday run of the mill astrodroid? Comments like Luke's in SW: "I've never seen such devotion in a droid before" R2-D2's ability to work undercover, both in tricking Luke into remove the restraining bolt in SW, getting into all sorts of high- security computer systems (the ever-present I/O port), and getting the light saber to Luke from Jabba's sail-barge, all seem to indicate that R2 is a very special machine. Granted these impressions are due to the fact that the trilogy does not give much info on what a normal droid can do, but since the droids are the only characters that will appear in all nine films perhaps there is something different about them. Even C3PO exceeds his design specifications (SW: "I'm really only a interpreter, and not very good at telling stories") when he gives his account of his adventures to the Ewoks.