Not wishing to sound stupid...

..but I can't help it really.

Whilst watching ESB tonight I noticed something for the first time, when Yoda and R2 are fighting over the flashlight, once Luke tells R2 to let him have it and R2 lets go, Yoda has a really good look at R2, it's almost a double take as if he recognises the little R2 unit. Has anyone else noticed this before?

Um. . . you wern't stoned, were you?

I'll take a close look next time I watch.

you're right, you sound stupid 😉

R2 gets a memory-wipe and there are lots of R2 units, looking like R2-D2

Yes, that's what I thought, hence the title of the thread.

save you out of it 😉

What does R2 having a memory wipe have to do with whether Yoda recognises him or not?

hehe......exactly. Besides..yoda has a good memory..in all his 900 years

I felt it was a gaze of being victorious in the struggle of the flashlight.

yup, big struggle for him

Nope ... didnt notice nuthin like that.

i think i like that yoda better then the cgi one...

I have no opinion on the CG vs puppet issue....
but practically speaking....I'm not sure that when that scene was shot they had any clue that yoda would end up seeing R2 before.....BTW I'm not positive yoda really was introduced to R2 anyway

guess there was no banquette

I remember this exact same topic coming up back when this was an eZBoard community. So you aren't sounding stupid. At first I refused to believe it but when I watched it more closely I saw this.

And R2 having a memory wipe has nothing to do with Yoda's ability or inability to recognize Artoo. Also, despite the fact that there are many R2 units in the galaxy, the fact that this unit was with Luke might have made Yoda look twice and ask himself how Luke got ahold of them. (Since they stayed in the hands of the Rebellion).

Guess Yoda couldn care less how Luke got a hold odf a R2 unit.

perhaps he even didn't know what a droid is

oh he knew allright

Why do you think that? .....BTW Maul's face is lovely...

why do I think he know what a droid is. He seen droids around before he went into hiding

😄