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In A new hope why didnt obi wan recongnise R2 D2?

or c3po, if you think about it. just an inconsistency. Lucas ended up making a way bigger star out of D2 than he had originally planned.

Or maybe he just didn't remember. It was more than twenty years ago, after all.

Yeah, what with R2 having been so close to him and Anakin during the war, and his relationship with him before that, it's no wonder Obi-Wan, a Jedi Master with a competent mind, didn't recognize the droid.

And Mace Windu survived the fall and came back as a zombie.

Wasn't Obi-Wan around 60 or so in ANH. Even a Jedi's faculties start to wane at that age.

My friends and I just watched ANH, and it really could be easily seen that he does know who they are and just isn't letting on. There's wiggle room in Guiness's performance for that interpretation

Owen and Beru, however, clearly have no idea what's going on which is ridiculous since they freaking lived with 3P0 for, like, five years.

When they lived with him he looked very different. Plus there are alot of protocol droids walking around the galaxy, they might have thought he was simply just another droid.

Originally posted by Lt. Valerian
Or maybe he just didn't remember. It was more than twenty years ago, after all.
yeah and like said about the wiggle room... he says when Luke asks him that he never owned a droid, that's true and he never said he knew or not knew R2... just that he never owned a droid so if he did know: he never told them

what happens if he told them ??

nothing at all I mean, it wouldn't have changed anything if he said he knew R2...

"Yo R2, long time no see, droidfriend... how're your chips hanging!"

All he said was that he didn't own R2; which is the truth.

True.

He went senile.

This does, however, brings up another interesting question: there are 20 years between 3 and 4, in 3 Obi was late 20's early 30's, which means in 4 he would be late 40's early 60's... but he looks like he's in his late 70's early 80's... how does that work out?

In ROTS, Obi is 38, he dies at 57. I guess the harsh climate of Tatooine took a toll on his youth. Guiness was 63 when he played him, only 6 years apart.

Let's face it... *cough cough*PT plot hole... *cough cough*

Yes i agree with queeq

lolz

Originally posted by queeq
Let's face it... *cough cough*PT plot hole... *cough cough*
I don't get it... like, he was pushing 40 in the 3th... so he was pushing 60 in the 4th. What's the problem exactly?

ob1=cryptic dirty crapface liar.

Very.

I always wondered why...

maybe alot of astromech droids look alike?

Originally posted by skywalker833
I always wondered why...

Does "a certain point of view" ring a bell?

the short story or the quote?

?

Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
maybe alot of astromech droids look alike?

There are only so many color variations possible and quite possibly millions or even billions of R2 units in the Galaxy.
It is possible to forget the exact name of a droid in twenty years.
Same goes for Threepio. Probably lots of gold protocol droid floating around. Kenobi can forget "C-3PO" just as easily as "R2-D2."
Or he could just be not letting on that he new them.

for some cryptic Jack sparrow style reason...

If the guy was gonna lie to Luke about his father, and his origins, why would he suddenly throw in, "But yeah, the droids I know. We had our days, heh."

oh yea. i guess it would sound kinda funny for him to say:
oh yea, the droids are cool... the r2 unit was your father's astromech droids. Then he gets to talking, and r2 suddenly reveals his fathers current identity. There goes esb. and luke might even join up with darth vader in episode IV.

Why not? With the PT the shock of the ESB revelation is already ruined.

Considering that almost everyone born after the mid-eighties *raises hand* already new about all the family ties before they even watched the movies, I'd say it was all dashed to hell anyway.

Well... it still worked without the PT... I think.

um then we would be deprived of all the great things we get from the pt

Wait... NVM

Indeed... nvm.

obi-wan is just getting older, i think it's that simple. apparently there were alot of astro droids. i remember when i saw ep.1 i mistuke on them them for r2-d2.

So he's demented?

Originally posted by <><>
obi-wan is just getting older, i think it's that simple. apparently there were alot of astro droids. i remember when i saw ep.1 i mistuke on them them for r2-d2.
yes, the ship R2 is on in Episode 1 actually has 2 blue R2s

The way it appears to me, it's just that GL really didn't give a ****. R" is popular? Lets put him everywhere, who cares about the story I once tried to tell...gimme money.

And he got it.

Yeah thats a good question.Since he didnt even recognize them- which he surely would after spending so much time together with them,they should never have had R2D2 AND 3PO be seen with him in those prequals.

Originally posted by queeq
Let's face it... *cough cough*PT plot hole... *cough cough*

yep.BIG TIME.cant get around it.

Yup.