Who are we to judge how Wookies grieve? Maybe they're like Klingons? The body is just a shell, and when a person dies they go on to battle in the afterlife with glory? Chewie gave the death-howl, and then moved on.
The Mighty Chewbacca - The Force Awakens (Spoilers)
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I just rewatched the movie today.
He does not cheer when he gets off the Millennium Falcon. He makes sure Finn gets medical attention, and when Finn gets whisked away, he stands close to a group of people.
In the group there are people celebrating, but Chewie does not interact with anyone in the group, just kind of stands there.
Granted, it is strange how he just walked past Leia, (or how Leia just ignored him and walked straight to Rey) but he did not cheer. Also, how do we know that they haven't been in radio contact with Leia before they land?
The next scene is Chewie roaring a depressing roar which then wakes up R2-D2, and leads to them finding Luke (Probably just a coincidence, but R2 starts moving right after the roar)
He does not cheer when he gets off the Millennium Falcon. He makes sure Finn gets medical attention, and when Finn gets whisked away, he stands close to a group of people.
In the group there are people celebrating, but Chewie does not interact with anyone in the group, just kind of stands there.
Granted, it is strange how he just walked past Leia, (or how Leia just ignored him and walked straight to Rey) but he did not cheer. Also, how do we know that they haven't been in radio contact with Leia before they land?
The next scene is Chewie roaring a depressing roar which then wakes up R2-D2, and leads to them finding Luke (Probably just a coincidence, but R2 starts moving right after the roar)
Yes, we did see Chewie grieving in his own way.
It was kind of odd (and coincidental) that R2 woke up right at that moment, after all the excitement had occurred. While I don't mind the relative lack of exposition in TFA, it would have been nice to have some little line of dialog explaining what exactly made R2 wake up... perhaps 3P0 could have said it.
Kor
It was kind of odd (and coincidental) that R2 woke up right at that moment, after all the excitement had occurred. While I don't mind the relative lack of exposition in TFA, it would have been nice to have some little line of dialog explaining what exactly made R2 wake up... perhaps 3P0 could have said it.
Kor
I think JJ stated that R2 started booting up when BB-8 first told him that he's got the map. But since he's an older model and in long-term hibernation it just took him a while until he conveniently finished the booting process when Rey arrived.
I'm thinking he probably had to go through a few days of annoying Windows updates before booting up completely.
I'm thinking he probably had to go through a few days of annoying Windows updates before booting up completely.
"What?! I have to install this update and reboot, before I can install the next update?! Arghhh.... Why doesn't the latest update just include everything I need all at once?!"
He's a 60 year old droid. It's harder to get out of sleep mode now.
Not to mention R2 has to get up two times a night to vent excess oil
Not to mention R2 has to get up two times a night to vent excess oil
It's more of a whimper.
Ithekro said:
R2 supposedly ended up with the rest of the map & the Jedi temple locations because of having accessed the Imperial network when he plugged into the Death Star in ANH. So ultimately he came to the information the same way Kylo Ren did: through the Imperial archives. Abrams didn't include this explanation in the film because it constituted getting bogged down in "how shit happened 30 years ago".
I might add that in the old EU it turned out that R2 had downloaded the holorecordings from Coruscant's Jedi Temple sometime during the timeframe of ROTS. So that's another way he could have gotten the information.
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[C3P0: "Artoo, where did you get that map from? Oh the Death Star Archives! How terribly convienent!!"]Abrams didn't include this explanation in the film because it constituted getting bogged down in "how shit happened 30 years ago".
His vision ain't what it used to be either. Just the other day he tried to fix Admiral Ackbars arm and attempted to reconnect the planets hyperdrive.
Leia was too shocked to see her niece for the first time in at least a decade, and vice versa with a newly awakened from some if not all of her memories niece seeing her aunt. Long last family trumps good friend.
Though I do agree it was still odd that Chewie didn't even give her a forlorn look as he sulked past.
Apparently R2 never had a memory wipe (though he sure knows how to keep his mouth shut about some of the big info he's been carrying around for decades).
But it seems that 3PO had a memory wipe, or at least some kind of electronic brain fart, at some point off-screen in ANH.
Toward the beginning, when the Tantive IV is under attack, he says "There'll be no escape for the princess this time."
But later, when R2 plays the holographic recording of the princess, 3PO doesn't recognize her. He says, "I think she was a passenger on our last voyage. A person of some importance, I believe."
Kor
^ Apparently R2 can understand English, but can he speak it? In all the SW films I've seen, I don't remember him speaking any lines other than beeps. What happens if he has to talk to somebody who can't understand beepese?
Several people can understand Binary, which is the language R2 speaks, and just about everyone in the franchise can apparently understand Basic (aka English). Finn even mentions something along those lines when he tells BB-8 that he doesn't speak that language, yet Rey has no trouble understanding him.
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