Earth Stuff in The Star Wars Galaxy

[Kor]

And then there was this concept of "The Maker," some kind of deity or something, only mentioned one time (possibly two?) in the movies by a droid. I think the tie-in stuff picked up on that and turned it into a vague legend passed down by older droids to newer droids about the being who made the first droid ever. SW77's line "Thank the Maker!" seemed to refer to a deity. But in AOTC when C-3PO said "Oh, the maker" or whatever the exact line was, I'm not sure if that was in the same sense, or if he meant Anakin as his specific maker.

Kor

 

[Christopher]

And then there was this concept of "The Maker," some kind of deity or something, only mentioned one time (possibly two?) in the movies by a droid. I think the tie-in stuff picked up on that and turned it into a vague legend passed down by older droids to newer droids about the being who made the first droid ever. SW77's line "Thank the Maker!" seemed to refer to a deity. But in AOTC when C-3PO said "Oh, the maker" or whatever the exact line was, I'm not sure if that was in the same sense, or if he meant Anakin as his specific maker.

I think it's more just a cutesy sci-fi equivalent of "Thank God" -- robots thanking their own builders/manufacturers in the same way that humans thank a putative divine creator. It's not an actual deity in the human sense, just an analogous rhetorical device of swearing on one's creator (imagined or known). Of course, at the time that line was written in 1977, nobody had any idea that Lucas would end up saying that Darth Vader was his maker. (Which, hey, makes C-3PO Luke and Leia's brother, doesn't it?) They probably just assumed he'd been churned out on an assembly line, rather than being a kit build. After all, we saw at least one other near-identical protocol droid on the Blockade Runner (the ship later named the Tantive IV), so C-3PO was presumably meant to be a generic model.


There was a cute bit in season 2 of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century where the robot Crichton (not to be confused with the homophonous Kryten from Red Dwarf) was so egotistical and haughty that he refused to believe he'd been built by a mere human (his creator Dr. Goodfellow, assisted by Twiki, who considered himself Crichton's "mother"), though he wasn't sure who or what actually had built him instead. Unfortunately, it contradicted season 1, which established right off the bat that robots and computers had become so advanced in the 25th century that they now built each other with no human involvement (and indeed ruled the society, though that was downplayed as the season went on).

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

And then there was this concept of "The Maker," some kind of deity or something, only mentioned one time (possibly two?) in the movies by a droid.

SW77's line "Thank the Maker!" seemed to refer to a deity. But in AOTC when C-3PO said "Oh, the maker" or whatever the exact line was, I'm not sure if that was in the same sense, or if he meant Anakin as his specific maker.

Kor

]"Thank the Maker" was undoubtedly based on the long-lived human expression of gratitude, "Thank God" or "Thank the Lord", and as delivered in the original Star Wars, that was the C-3PO's meaning, sans any reference to a named individual who may or may not be responsible for his construction. It was also intended to be sort of humorous that a droid (one who tries to please and/or align himself with humans) would also use such an expression.

 

[publiusr]

The animals in the Ewok movie I chalked up to convergent evolution.

The blaster on the other hand fired a phaser like stream as I recall
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/the-show-your-custom-blaster-thread.257149/page-10

I remember the Binatone light guns were similar.

The Towani family ship looked cool.

 

[JD]

I honestly didn't notice that with the blaster.
Yeah, their ship was pretty cool.