Question about ANH

the method he would employ in order to do this: lie.

or perhaps he got a memory wipe and got it restored later on? 😛

Originally posted by yerssot
the order: protect the princess by hiding her identity

hide her identity means to not tell the truth about her identity
to speak a nontruth is to lie.

3p0 lied

3p0 is not an idiot

why cant anyone respect goldenrod?

poor 3p0 will never get his props 🙁

or just beating around the bush 😉

SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR GOLDENROD!!! 😛

not any time soon

how exactly could a droid knowingly lie? doesn't that take some sort of "human" emotion or traits? Agreed that he did lie, but how? Maybe it was inadvertent, like he was doing what he was told, which was lying, but it wasn't intentional, like PVS said. But do you think that a droid is can "lie"?

well, in the star wars universe, droids can feel fear,
anger, sadness...so why not?

3p0 lies to the stormtroopers on the DS1 about taking R2 for maintenance, lies about having magic powers to the ewoks, gets pissed off at R2 on a regular basis, always worries about his friends when they are in danger. he has emotions, its as clear as day. since he has emotions and free thought, why can he not lie? its a no brainer. droids in the SW universe are human in every way with exception to their anatomy.

Its possible C3PO never came in contact with Leah or else a plot erorr

Originally posted by yerssot
the order: protect the princess by hiding her identity

Then why does he insit on R2-D2 playing the message. And telling him that it's ok and that Luke is the rightfull owner now. The message would reveal something.

It's just a flaw.

cause he doesn't want to get blown up thanks to the stubborness of R2

Originally posted by Dirty Vader
Then why does he insit on R2-D2 playing the message. And telling him that it's ok and that Luke is the rightfull owner now. The message would reveal something.

It's just a flaw.

because 3p0 really wants nothing to do with r2's mission.
he follows the same order by pure obligation, but from the
second he leaves tatooine in ep2, he expresses his discontent
on a regular basis. he WANTS r2 to just play the message and
be done with it, but will not screw up the mission either.

3p0 never alerted luke that r2 had escaped the moisture farm,
when it would have made perfect sense for him to do if he truely
could not be trusted. 3p0 was almost certain that he would be deactivated
for letting R2 go, but he did anyway didnt he? for a cowardly droid, thats
conviction.

also, 3p0 never mentioned "the princess" to luke when the message was accidentally played, did he? "there'll be no escape for the princess this time"
he KNEW who leia was and didnt give her away.

the droid lied