Lord knows i'm not one to get hung up on inconsistencies in fictional tales, not at all. However, something has been bugging me for the last day or so, and it concerns Star Wars.
In A New Hope, when the Jawas try to sell C3PO to Owen Lars, he tells him that he has no need for a protocol droid. Yet we know that for some time, Owen (and his father Jack Thompson) owned C3PO. If they didn't need him, why did they own him?
The answer, of course, is that he came with Shmi Skywalker when Jack Thompson bought/married her under what seem to me to be rather dubious circumstances. But Shmi only owned him because Anakin built him 'to help Mom'.
How on earth would a protocol droid do that? If he was so completely unsuitable for farm labour that he was instantly dismissed by a farmer, why did Anakin think he'd be able to help Shmi? Surely Anakin would have been far better off building a multi-armed lifting/carrying droid, or something that could offer Shmi some form of transport, instead of something obviously regarded by the working class as essentially useless. Lucas then tries to disguise this by having C3PO be 'programmed' for other tasks, but that still doesn't escape the fact that Anakin could have, starting from scratch like he did, built his mother something of a far more practical nature.
George Lucas, if you're reading this, I could do way better than that. Please get in touch and we'll talk ideas for the next trilogy.
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