It was supposed to be padme, but GL told Salvatore to just make it Anakin's mom. I think its cool to think the droids were in both they're families and then passed to Luke, kinda sad he doesn't know that thought. Cuz 3P0 comes from Anakin and R2 from Padme, then they obviously travel to Alderaan with Leia because they end up on her ship in ANH and then off to Luke they go. Then, in the books and also in the movies, it tends to be 3P0 with Leia and R2 with Luke. Just interesting, no real point here. 😄
have you guys listened to the commentary for II? GL is always saying "we added this scene to condense this idea" and "we had to cut this scene for time" and then they show R2 filtering Obi-wan's message and GL goes "I put this in because R2 didn't have enough screen time". I'm like oh...my....god. All this stress to condense ideas and you want little R2 to have more screen time?
he must really love the droids...its cool with me, I'll watch R2 over a lot of other characters, hes the supercool swiss army knife of the movies who always saves the day when no one else can!
that was funny! he's there for the kids. Just leave 'em be. I just watched some of the extras on the Indianna Jones DVD boxed set last night and it ends up 3P0 and R2 are in the hieroglyphs on a wall in the Raiders scene with all the snakes. And Indy really IS named after a dog, Lucas'! Who is also who he modeled Chewie after! Just an interesting tic bit...