Everyone I speaks to says BB8 is the best droid. Should the old droids be scrapped?
nah theyre still cool
im happy though that they focused on BB-8 and didnt drag R2 and 3PO through the movies like in the prequels
it makes sense that 3PO stayed with Leia and R2 with Luke (kind of)
Yes. There are too many fucking robots now.
Why did Anakin Vader make C3PO a gay?
>>64009788
>Everyone I speaks to says BB8 is the best droid.
You only speak to plebs apparently OP
>>64010246
But I've never spoken to you before until now.
>>64010293
EPIC WIN
This fuckin meme bot
>>64009788
The droids were idiot dopes, not le ebin cool ball I would never sell
C3P0 was one big faggot joke for goodness sake
>>64009788
>the new droids name is actually bait
>>64009788
i kinda agree with Mark Hamill (i think it was him) on BB-8. Its a new design but it felt like it belonged to star wars from the start
>>64009788
>Should the old droids be scrapped?
No, not until the actors are dead. Is this your first experience with Disney? The droids stay in the picture(s). And when the actors are dead, they'll still be there.
I get the need to show the old robots (to appease fanboys and make it seem more like the old star wars film and gain approval)
BUT its also important that this new trilogy stands on its own two feet
I like BB8, its cute and it purrs but i'd love to see a new, more practical droid as well
>tfw R2 was in a coma for decades
>>64010310
>mad
>>64010403
Bring back this fallen legend
>>64010361
>implying
No. I am sorry but, actually no I'm not sorry in the slightest. R2-fucking-D2 and his buttbuddy C-3PO are without a doubt the best and they always will be.
>>64010403
I'd like to see a droid like IG-88 become a bigger character
C3PO was hilarious in TFA
>>64010509
Fuck, fund it.
>>64010538
manbabby fanboy cant accept any change?
>>64010509
>>64010548
This
Why can't we have cool, non-cuck droids
I don't care, robots in star wars are retarded.
>>64010593
I'll accept change when a worthy replacement is given. R2 and 3PO are gods compared to BB-8.
>>64010246
Me and you... we were both born in the wrong geberation.
Children no longer dream of starfighters and dinosaurs these days... they dream of being roasties and chads. If only we could turn back time and live in the 90s like our parents - ah, I'm so jealous!
>>64010637
They must use you as the base model then
Artoo is still best droid, but BB-8 was still very likable and I'll be happy to see him again in Episode VIII.
>>64010509
>Blender by Bioware
Fuck off
C3PO was always a prissy faggot and R2D2 was just an obnoxious jerk. Both pretty unlikable, save for R2D2. He has his moments.
BB8 is too qt to not be best droid. I mean look that the little guy.
>>64010116
Someone answer this
>>64010653
and youve had 6 films with them in to get to know their character, you need to give new characters the screentime before you throw your toys out the pram on this one m8
>>64009788
The classic droids are absolutely fundamental for Lucas, in many way star wars is as much their story as the skywalkers. Maybe one day OP you will watch Kurosawa’s 1958 classic The Hidden Fortress, which tells the story of a general and a princess, fighting their way home through enemy lines in feudal Japan with the help of a pair of bumbling peasants.
Anyone watching the film will instantly recognize the two bickering peasants as a loose analogue of everyone’s favorite droids, R2 D2 and C3 PO. The peasants even begin the film on a desolate background, shot with long lenses, much like Lucas and his team would film them during their scenes on Tatooine in A New Hope. Though Artoo and Threepio are much more pleasant than the greedy peasants of The Hidden Fortress, their comedic role in driving the story is incredibly similar.
Obviously your plebeian friends nor you have any knowledge of this OP. You wouldn't even dare to ask the question in the first place if you did. Stay pleb.
>>64009788
What happened to C3PO's arm?
>>64010958
>being this up your own ass about one of Kurosawa's most commercial films
>OP is the pleb
>>64010965
SELL
MORE
TOYS
>>64010965
>What happened to C3PO's arm?
Disney's jewish marketing team
>>64010965
It got rusty after too many fistings and had to be replaced.
>>64010995
more like
SELL
MORE
SPINOFFS
>>64010738
lmao. Quality shit post. I really can't tell if you're making fun of that guy or you are agreeing with him in a weird way. The mystery your post provides makes me give it an 8/10
BB8 has a wider range of expressions
>BB-8
>implying it's not Reddit: The Droid
Nah, fuck that meme spouting spergball
Hello? Are we back? Hello?
>>64011101
fucking how
>>64010958
In 2001, when The Criterion Collection put out a new DVD version of The Hidden Fortress, they sat George Lucas down to talk about the film’s influence on Star Wars. “I remember the one thing that really struck me about The Hidden Fortress,” he said, “the one thing I was really intrigued by, was the fact that the story was told from the two lowest characters. I decided that would be a nice way to tell the Star Wars story. Take the two lowliest characters, as Kurosawa did, and tell the story from their point of view. Which, in the Star Wars case is the two droids, and that was the strongest influence. The fact that there was a princess trying to get through enemy lines was more of a coincidence than anything else. In my film, the princess is more of a stand-and-fight kind of princess. In the beginning, in one of the first drafts, I did have a little bit more of her and a Jedi, an older Jedi, trying to escape, but then it evolved into the story of Luke.”
It doesn’t take much to wonder if the use of handmaidens and doubles so prevalent in Kurosawa films, especially in this particular one, were inspirations for The Phantom Menace and, in particular the death of Cordé in Attack of the Clones. And, much like Padmé in The Phantom Menace, the princess finds herself in a poor and unsavory territory, learning how people in the world really live. These parallels make more sense when you consider that Lucas himself produced Kurosawa’s most notable film involving the double of royalty, Kagemusha.
>>64011233
>Update
There are many story parallels between the two films and it’s fun to watch them side-by-side. But, it’s not just a few story flourishes that were used as influences in Star Wars; the filmmaking techniques of Kurosawa are ever present in the works of Lucas as well. In The Hidden Fortress, there’s a thrilling sequence where the general is on horseback, evading enemies and the background motion and intensity of the scene matches that of the trench run in A New Hope. Imagine that. Kurosawa shot a trench run on horseback and it’s thrilling. The camera focuses on the horse (or the X-wing), while the background whizzes by, shot from a very long lens, all in grayscale tones, adding a dynamic speed to the chase. But then, the camera stops and the general finds himself surrounded by enemies, much like Han rounding that corner on the Death Star.
You’ll also notice in The Hidden Fortress the way Kurosawa wipes from one shot to another is very similar to the wipes we’ve all come to know and love with Star Wars.
Star Wars could have had even more parallels to The Hidden Fortress than it did. It was reported that, early on, Toshiro Mifune, who plays the samurai general Rokurota Makabe, was considered for the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
There is nothing more fun for a film and Star Wars geek than tracing these influences back even further. In that same Criterion interview, Lucas talked about Kurosawa’s influences. “I know Kurosawa was a very big fan of John Ford’s and that he was very influenced by John Ford,” he said, “and you can actually see John Ford’s influence in Kurosawa’s films, which I think is one of the reasons they are so accessible to Westerners.”
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Patrician's droid coming through
>>64011583
"Gonk"
-Gonk
I mean you can't get much more based than that
>>64010784
Hola, rabbi
>>64009788
No, but they (along with the rest of the old cast) should be phased out eventually so that this new trilogy can finally stand on its own two feet with its new cast of characters.
>>64010403
> but i'd love to see a new, more practical droid as well
Agreed. We need a tall droid to replace the 3P0 role in the new trilogy. A badass droid with snarky, overconfident sense of humor would be a great change from the prissy and annoying gigs of 3P0. We also need a new token alien to replace Chewwie, too. It shouldn't be Maz though, because she's meant to fill in the Yoda role, at least for now.
>>64010653
I'd agree about R2, certainly not C3PO though, and R2 is old and could stand to be replaced by a spunky young droid, which we got
>>64011911
Hk47 type of droid would be great. For me he was the most memorable companion in kotor
>>64012713
Yes pls
BB8 was shit
an R2D2 subsitute
it should have been R2D2 but like C3P0s arm they need to sell the fuckwits new toys
General Grevious was the best droid.
>>64012746
I'd envision him as a more snarky and light hearted version of benicio del toros character from sicario.
>>64013021
General Grievous was a cyborg
>>64013043
>implying
Fuck off with your EU shit.
>>64013112
Him being a cyborg is officially canon tho
>>64013112
You're fucking stupid or trolling.
>>64013112
>organic eyes
>organs visible in chassis once Obi-Wan bends his chest plates
He was a prototype Vader, his role, botched might I add, was to foreshadow what Vader would become and to show that the technology was still imperfect.
This movie rekindled my love for C-3PO and his cockblocking Han. Hope he cockblocks Finn next film.
c3p0 was a protocol droid
he was an android so as to be pleasant to speak to like a human
r2d2 was for going is aeroplanes to compute things, there was a hole in the aeroplanes especially for him
bb8 (bowling ball 8) is a ball.
what is his purpose? it can't speak english like c3p0 and it can't do battle calculations in an aeroplane can it it would fucking fall out. how do you even lift it up by its head?
its name doesnt even make sense
bb8
its supposed to be
letter number letter number
not
letter letter number
if you wanted to register an aeroplane and they were like ok you need a 4 letter tail number and you said ok my tail number is bumlover69 they would say no
it should be called b0b8 or something
I, for one, welcome our new ball overlord.
>>64010822
r2 and 3p0 are either abbott and costello or laurel and hardy.
When c3po showed up I flinched
This BB-8 is reminding me of Elmo but all the characters in Star Wars were designed to sell toys so it doesn't matter.
>>64010965
Lost it in a spaceship crash while trying to disarm a snuke
>>64013439
There are multiple scenes with BB-8 in the droid console for X-wings. He's the evolution of R2.
>fall out
magnets?
>>64014024
that is stupid as fuck
>>64014024
I assumed he stayed in the same way R2 units do, with some kind of clamp or whatever holding him in it, like the way he got in at all.
>>64010609
>Droid Bounty Hunter
>>64009788
i was slightly annoyed by BB8. Just seems like a wall-e ball...
>>64010116
We'll if you built a robot for your mom would you make it butch enough to seduce her and become your new step dad?
