Over a few days, I did a really long Twitter thread discussing a topic that’s bothered me for quite some time. Here’s a link where that thread is put all on one page very easy reading. I hope you enjoy, and I’m just glad I got that all off my chest.
Over a few days, I did a really long Twitter thread discussing a topic that’s bothered me for quite some time. Here’s a link where that thread is put all on one page very easy reading. I hope you enjoy, and I’m just glad I got that all off my chest.
It is weird that they feel compelled to rescue robots. I mean, people? sure, Wookies? you bet. Cats? absolutely. But why risk a living creature to save a machine. In the 1st movie preserving R2D2 was important not for the machine itself but because of the information contained within it. Having retrieved the data it becomes as replaceable as any other machine.
Of course anthropomorphizing the robots was an important part of the storytelling and toy marketing for Star Wars. Still it seems immoral that they would take any significant risk to save a robot. There never came a time when one of the humans said “We hate to lose you, C3PO, but we need to fill you with explosives and have to walk into that hangar and blow up all those fighter ships.”? How many people might have been saved with the completely reasonable sacrifice of robots?
What is the moral difference between R2D2 or C3PO as compared to a guided missile? The missile is a man-made object it just has different programming and a lack of a voice module. Will no one speak for the voice-less machines? Of course no one will it’s silly – much like risking a life to save a robot.
Once you anthropomorphize you can’t go back.
Woah… deep…
That’s very much like the realization that things would have been better overall if Indiana Jones hadn’t tried to get the Ark of the Covenant.
Soooo, you’d let the Nazis have it, eh?
They wouldn’t have had it at all if Jones hadn’t told them the right place to dig.
Penny was right on Big Bang Theory.If Jones never got involved, the end result would still have been the same. In the Holy Grail one too.
I liked the first Star Wars, but all the movies are a hot mess of makenosense-ism.
The only thing they did that makes sense, sciencificially, in any of the movies are the cool pod-racers.
Thanks! We’ve drifted away from Pitch Meeting posts, sadly. Harvey was the one that did those. They are invariably good.
I’m on it chief.
Force sensitives are supposed to have some ability to see the future. Perhaps (and this would be a real BS explanation), of all the possible futures Luke could foresee, this was the only one in which everyone got out alive.
Why does that sound suspiciously similar to the Avengers/Dr. Doom explanation?
Also called Deus Ex Machina.
Which is I think Star Trek‘s deal. At least, all Star Treks not the first one.