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OK so here are the facts c3p0 had been living on the lars homestead and he recognised padme and anakin even though he had not seen them for 10 years
so it comes back to the same old question in a new hope how come he didn't say oh master own its me c3p0 I used to live here and also on the subject of the lars home anakins mother was buried there so don't you think it is not a very good place to hide the young Luke skywalker what if Vader had returned to see the grave and stumbled upon him you know how powerful the dark side is he could have sussed out Luke was his son


I hope in episode 3 George does something with the droids that erases their memory otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed

all this thinkin' about who he should've remembered but didn't and why ..and how instead it should have been........it makes me dizzy....woo
*faints*

Their memories would have to have been erased. It is actually pretty likely now because the droids had been left begind at the Geonasian Arena.

Well, they were at Anakin's wedding.

And what does them being left behind at the Arena have to do with anything?

Well, I bet Luke knows about the grave.

Unless Owen and Beru know where it is so they took down the grave stones so that Luke wouldn't know about his family's horrible past.

I noticed something about the graves. There's three. Shmi, Cliegg's dead wife, and then a smaller grave. A dead child maybe?

Or Cliegg's severed leg?

I don't think that Luke would be affected by his grandma's grave, it wouldn't show him his family's "horrible past".

maybe they don't tell him who's in the grave....
or just the grave with clieggs foot

I wondered about that third stone in another thread. I could only guess at another child, perhaps killed in an accident or even stillborn, who knows ? Is it in the novel ? I haven't read the bloody thing yet.

I haven't read to that yet. I think I'll skip ahead.

It's not in the novel.


And if they had been left at the Arena then they would have been taken by someone else, taken into their service, and possibly the new owners would have erased the memories.

What is the big deal, your grandmother was killed by Tusken Raiders, guess Tusken killing raids happens once in a while at Tatooine.

3PO has never met Obi-Wan, and he really has no idea who R2 is. R2 knows who he is though.

A little while ago at theforce.net, they had some information about an interview someone had with George Lucas about Episode 3 in which George Lucas said that the droids would get their memory erased.

why does DARTH VADER stop Bobba Fett from shooting chewbacca with 3po on his back at the freezing chamber in ESB?

does he remember he built c-3po?

Or maybe he didn't want a howling Wookiee and stray blaster fire. But, yes, it's a possibility he remembers 3PO. But when GL made ESB, he didn't know that he'd have Anakin/Vader build him in TPM.

It's actually quite evident that at least 3PO got his memory erased: "I frankly don't know what he's talking about. Our last master was Bail Antillies..."
I just don't see how they erased Ben's memory.

they got both erased, GL quote

Kaliero, he says CAPTAIN Antilles, as in the guy Vader kills on the Tantive IV.

Why would a Rebel captain own a protocol droid and an astromech droid?

LUKE: You know, I think that R2 unit we bought might have been stolen.

OWEN: What makes you think that?

LUKE: Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says he belongs to someone called Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Owen is greatly alarmed at the mention of his name, but
manages to control himself.

LUKE: I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about? Well, I wonder if he's related to Ben.

Owen breaks loose with a fit of uncontrolled anger.

OWEN: That old man's just a crazy old wizard. Tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit into Anchorhead and have its memory flushed. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.

I can see C3P0 getting his memory flushed before this scene but I don't think R2 ever did.

Diaz tells us that tonight on E! News Live, George Lucas reveals a secret about C-3PO and R2-D2 from Episode 3!

Patrick Stinson: Anakin in Episode One created C3PO. In the original trilogy, C3PO doesn't recognize him as Darth Vader because...

George Lucas: Well, one, his brains have, his memory system has been erased and so has R2's. So, they don't remember anything from the first trilogy. I'm telling you something from Episode 3, but I shouldn't be telling you that, but I think most of the fans already know that.

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and will everyone give it a rest now??? He told it himself!

Why WOULDN'T the Captain of a diplomatic vessel own an astromech and protocol drods? Extremely handy for that job!

You have to check out this shot of a young 3P0...

http://www.thestarwarsgalaxy.com/hat_bg.jpg

ROTFLMAO!!!

C3PO acts like a girl.

isn't he one?

I don't think so, but he acts strange for some reason. Someone should go ask Anakin seeing as he built him to begin with!

makes you doubt about anakin huh?

Yeah C3PO was already acting weird when we first met him- and when Anakin first showed him to Padme.

how so?

"I'm not sure this floor is entirely stable"
yeah yeah

Actually Threepio began his incessant chatter and acting odd the moment Anakin turned him on. No one really knows why he talks like that. Not even in the original Star Wars or subsequent spinoffs.

makes you doubt about anakin too

The boy was a genius in his own mind and he has C3PO to prove it!

sure, no doubts there

Just like Watto said about the boy.Somehow I suspect you already knew that.

why?

I assume you have seen The Phantom Menace?

educated guess yes

That was what I was talking about when I spoke of Watto. Your comment reminded me of him.

really? people say I remind them of insanity

Not me my friend but in case you haven't noticed...I ain't a local boy.

you're a farmer?

I...am a musician.

even better

What kind of musician gordon? and for yerssots understanding, i think gordon ment he was like you. Ya know, the insanity thing.

I have played bass guitar and keyboards.

Cool! Lets get back to C3PO!

Very well young one. C3PO had his memory flushed and that is why he did not recognise Owen Lars or Tattooine. George Lucas said that is what happened so it happened. End of story.

close this one

Did GL say so? I can't remember. I remember him saying it was not all that important.

he said it months ago, around the premier of AOTC, one of the first things he told us about EpIII
(it was even on jedipoodoo )

Okilydokily!

George Lucas did indeed say that about the C3PO/R2D2 storyline.

you still know when exactly?

Maybe he said it on the Episode I DVD commentary but I don't remember now.....

no, rather sure it was in an interview

About the memory flushes you mean? Another thing: Why does Threepio retain the same basic personaility despite having obviously gone through several flushes throughout the Star Wars timeline?

only one, and that still has to get into EpIII...
rest is EU
actualy, we know nothing about memory wipes, perhaps their character remains intact?

Might be good to finally have it explained it in the movie. I kind of thought he was like that b/c Anakin made a mistake in building him.

I doubt someone as talented as he makes such a mistake

"Don't get me wrong...the boy has talent"...but he left before he could perfect the systems on C3PO.

hmm, but the only thing he mentioned that should be done were the coverings

True and I remember that dialogue but let me ask it this way: Were the other protocl droids in TPM acting like Threepio? The ones on the Trade Federation ship? seems to me we could compare Threepoio to the other ones to see if they all act like that.

bad personality chip?

Is there such a thing?

I hope so

Well it certainly would explain a lot!