Yeah.... Interesting stuff....
Even if we get no direct explaination, maybe Ep3'll eliminate a few possiblities allowing our conclusions to be easier to come to....
Which is why I thought that he could've assumed that the Jawas would've erased their memories... Cant very well have your newly purchased stolen property being able to report it's own theft now can you... "Sloppy work by the Jawas" I bet he concluded.......
I think in ANH Owen acts as if he has no clue who those droids are because he didnt know, because ANH wasnt written yet... man there are some things about these new movies that GL should have left out, Like Darth Vader being C3POs Maker, and C3PO Living with the Lars family. it just doesnt work... Unless he makes it work
i like darth vader being C3P0's maker...it makes good irony in that he becomes Luke's servant in the OT...and its also ironic that they both dont know the true back ground of one another..all the secrets are left in a little droid called R2-D2
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If they did, then expect them to be merchanising the hell out of them real soon, while threatening to sue anyone caught distributing them through any other channels.....
I think there are a few reasons Owen Lars doesn't remember 3P0. maybe he has a substance abuse problem (the guy looks pretty haggard plus would't living in the middle of nowhere your whole life turn you to drink?), Beru isn't really taking care of things in the bedroom which leaves him absent minded, distracted and abrupt with people, or he is a clone (which the TV series will of course deal with at length).
All this will be solved when Lucas makes the Special Special Edition DVDs.
George Lucas will add an extra scene into Star Wars A New Hope, whereby a CGI (oh yes, MUST be CGI, or Lucas head will explode) Escape Pod crash lands on Tatooine. A CGI (which, according to Lucas, stands for "Better") C3PO stumbles out of the wreckage and suffers from mild amnesia and a temporary loss of character.
C3PO (with concussion): "Oh noes! What am mesa going to dosa? Hey der little droid, whassa my namen oookie day?"
R2: "Boop bop, beep!"
C3PO (complete with Ahmed Best voice over): "Jeremy?"
*A CGI dewback walks very slowly across the screen, blocking the entire R2D2 scene where he is captured by the Jawas, and as the dewback goes off screen, we are at the Lars homestead, which, incidentally, now rotates, and is made of silver and the entire planet has had the sand replaced with treacle"
Owen Lars: "You, I suppose you are programmed for etiquette and protocol"
Owen Lars (dubbed over with James Earl Jones, over a subtle freeze frame): "I also have no idea who you are, C3PO"
C3PO: "Hello, I, am, Jeremy, human cyborg relations"
*The Ewoks arrive before C3PO can finish and start a dance. Darth Vader, watching this from his Death Star, sheds a tear of joy, and decides to give his son a call and clear things up. Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, therefore, do not need botherring with, and plothole - solved!
guys in a new hope 3-po NEVER introduced himself as C-3po, to my recollection it went this way
"you, i suppose youre programmed for ettiqutte and protocol"
"protocol, y its my primary function"
"i have no use for a protocol droid"
"of course you havent sir not in an enviorenment such as this"
and so on and so on, that one little convo is all the contact owen had with 3-po in a new hope, there are probably millions of 3-po protocol droids in the universe. he never knew it was him, plain and simple
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Ok, I havn't posted anything INSANELY off base yet, so I'm going to throw this one out there.
Owen Lars was in on the entire thing.
He bought the droids knowing darn well who they were and probably what they were about. If he had any reservations about them, He would have checked them out first. He had Luke do that.
The big thing in my mind was "You can't go away this year. I need you for the...uhm...harvest."
Perhaps he told by Obi-Wan that Luke's fate would follow some certain path, and untill ready for that path Luke stay with Owen. The pat would get laid before him and would lead him to Obi-Wan. Owen could have vaguely considered this a chance at this "Path". He seemed pretty concerned with his "That is what I am afraid of" line after the "He has too much of his father in him" line. It's possibly that he knows what is just around the corner.
He may not have liked the idea of Luke following Obi-Wan on some damn fool crusade, but he was in agreement to keep Luke right there untill, if ever, the right time came. Granted, Owen certainly didn't have the foresight to realize that he would get killed out of the deal...
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Mar 9th, 2005 02:26 AM
Interesting stuff....
