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in ep.4, obviously owen doesnt recognize c3po as he buys him from the jawas. ever wonder why that is? r2 i can understand, but 3po? why didnt he recognize him, especially after he talked to him?

guess there is many protocol units around

but that whiny voice would be pretty hard to forget, wouldnt it?

It's a hole in the story that Lucas didn't think about. At least, not until die hard fans pointed it out to him.

like us, huh?

I wondered about that after I saw Ep2...I think it is a bit of a hole, not that I like to say that. I can understand C-3PO not remembering Owen because the droids memories will probably be erased in Ep3 or whatever but Owen not remembering Threepio...??
Die hard fans...

well when he was with owen in episode 2, he had the gray coverings on, but in episode 4 he had gold on, so maybe he didnt remember him. or maybe he did remember him, but he just didnt want to tell luke.

There's quite a few years between Ep 2 and 4, and there must be loads of C3 series droids about the galaxy and lets face it there isn't anything obviously different about 3P0 than any other C3 droid so maybe it just didn't occur to him that it would be the same one.

but that voice, that whiny voice...it is worse than talking to fran drescher.

no nothing is worse than that, or perhaps that dude from Police acadamy Bobcat something

He does have a rather annoying voice doesn't he??
And Owen was a little reluctant to let Luke become what he was always meant to...

Yeah, so even if Owen recognized the droids, he wasn't going to tell Luke.

Exactly

they placed luke there to protect him; you think owen woul scream and yell "that's the droid your father made!!!" after making up an entire story about navigating spacefrighters...
he DID plan to erase their memories so there wouldn't be any trouble with the droids

Good point!

game and set?

pretty much....

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i cant believe i started this stupid thread....

oh believe me ... you did

dammit, yerss...you are right....what was i thinking?

There's nothing wrong with your thread RJ, as I said I always wondered the same thing. Then again, that may not have been the most comforting thought...I am a little strange

You aren't strange..... just different.....

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I'm going with a mix of there being so many different protocol droids and the fact that his coverings changed to newer gold ones after leaving Tattooine. the lack of voice recognition could be to do with 20 years apart or it could have been a standard voice synthesizer that many droids have.

Sounds the most likely to me.