A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

[km_515]

Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III

[I originally wrote this piece in 2005 and a friend posted it on his website. That site has recently gone down, so I'm reposting it here, as it still gets a lot of interest.]

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon (as it seems we must) then a lot that happens in the original films has

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R2

[anonymous]

I feel like the only other major flaw here, besides anything chewie or falcon related (and those can be ignored is you only go with film canon) is that R2 resisted the jawas in the canyon when he gets captured.

First, 3P0 got captured first, so if r2's goal was to get captured then he did go the wrong way. Since 3P0 wasn't with R2 there was no reason to put up a show-not that there would've been anyways because 3P0 is too dense to figure anything out, and what the hell do the jawas care if R2 doesn't react, as I am sure there are plenty of droids with out the intelligence to freak out when they get captured.

Still, this can be fixed if we think that R2 knows where ben is (maybe he has a homing device or something, hacks into Tatooine GPS, as we can probably assume that any planet with enough civilization will have satalites in orbit.) and is heading towards Ben when he gets captured. Then out of bargaining or luck they end up at lar's homestead. Luck probably seeing as you would need even more luck for luke to have gotten to taking off his little control chip that the jawa's put on.

Re: R2

[anonymous]

haha, this can be fixed by removing "arranged to be" with "is"
:)