Originally posted by S_D_J
Yeah, Let's just have Anakin forget about R2, and see how it all plays out in ep III, IV an so on without him...or maybe R2 just used his propulsive jets he had, but never used in the PT, to get to wherever Anakin was... or maybe he has an Hyperdrive in there somewhere....
Ep3+ hasn't occured yet, so if we are watching the Clone Wars as a current event, R2's future uses are irrelevant. The point is, if we remove names and importance, we are watching one of the greatest Jedi in the Order chase after an astromech droid, in the middle of a galaxy spanning war, where Jedi are being killed, clones are being wiped out, planets are being enslaved, the Sith are a known threat, Durge/Ventress/Grievous are out messing stuff up and civilian lives are at stake. The only added emphasis on finding R2 is that he holds some important information in his memory.
The Clone Wars is meant to be one of the biggest events in Star Wars, and we are missing out on all the important factors in making it the event it should be, because we are watching very small, isolated events that - in the scale of the war - are insignificant. Even as wsa said before, 'The Republic has been suffereing crippling defeats', we have missed those defeats and are instead being shown smaller character driven stories.