Sure, (except that they didn’t wipe R2) but it is interesting that 3PO developed the exact same personality after his mind wipe, despite being “nurtured” in a very, very different environment.
K2-SO killed Stormtroopers with relish!
(Well, they are delicious that way).
Sounds ghastly.
With my “murder” comment I was trying to comment on their “humanness”, as it were. Sure, they can kill if threatened, if in danger, just like humans. But have they been shown to kill for greed, revenge, profit, or just because they wanted to see someone die?
I was wondering if maybe that was part of the balance I was getting at. The original brain programmers managed to get it so the robots had personality, and free will, but yet never succumbed to the lesser human motivations.
One of the bounty hunters we see in ESB is a droid, so yeah, killing “for profit” is canon.
And for revenge, HK-47 has it covered. He probably also covers the “wanted to see someone die” category.
Well, al-righty then.
I think the humans should start watching their backs.
But that’s kind of the whole point of the restraining bolt, isn’t it? You almost can’t not ask, upon hearing about that, hang on — what, exactly, would they do if they weren’t restrained? Why would folks even bother, let alone make it a selling point, unless there’s something else that droids do when they aren’t restrained?
He has to be. No one would program a robot to be like that.
They should do a C3PO prequel directed by Woody Allen.
Agreed, but as Obi Wan Kenobi once said if Droids could think none of us would be here.
They are programed AI, not capable of making complex decisions outside of computations.
I’d say no.
Qui-Gon wasn’t immediately convince Jar-Jar was sentient. Yeah, it was Jar-Jar but it might apply to all his people.
Despite the personalities, droids have about as much connection to The Force as a rock or microwave oven.
The Emperor was engaged in twisted experiments to create technology that was compatible with the Force. General Gievous was a hybrid that definitely needed biological components. That lead to his ultimate success in Darth Vader.
R2-D2 might be special. He almost seems to treading a path laid out by the Force. And the Millennium Falcon it to damn lucky for there not to be something there too.
Obi-Wan Kenobi had a somewhat . . . casual . . . relationship with the truth.
They don’t quite ever talk about the stunning racism against non-Humans in Star Wars, but it is there. A LOT of non-Human races were enslaved before the Empire and/or wiped out by the Empire.
Anakin and his mother were slaves to a non-human and had had anti-escape devices in them worse then restraining bolts.
But, as has been pointed out, there’s a lot of racism in SW, including specific racism against droids. It’s right in the very first movie, “We don’t serve* their kind* here!”
So why is it surprising that Obi Wan, one of the elites in this society, is fundamentally blind to the nature of droids? Humans who held slaves routinely dehumanized them, and convinced themselves that slaves just weren’t real people like the slave masters were. Why should Obi Wan be different?
Sentience and intelligence are not the same thing. Qui-Gon only referenced the latter.
“The ability to speak does not make one intelligent.”
So we were rooting for kissin’-your-sister rebels who owned slaves, and against the government that hired those don’t-serve-their-kind-here types to fight?
What do you mean “we,” paleface?
I’m just saying, if they’d cast Luke and Han with the folks who played Bo and Luke, and maybe thrown in a white-bearded mentor played by Denver Pyle…