What's the deal with R2-D2?

[Lindley]

According to the expanded universe, it was in fact his motivator, and "Red" blew it himself after befriending Artoo in the sandcrawler and learning how important it was that he be liberated in order to continue his mission. Of course the key phrase here being "expanded universe".

I've read most of the novels and never encountered that. The EU gets a little bit out there sometimes, but not that far out.

 

[nx1701g]

Obi-Wan hears Palpatine refer to Anakin as "Lord Vader" in the Jedi Temple recording and then Yoda refers to him as "Darth Vader" later in the same scene.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt4G6RPrO64

Odd... the clip is squished into a TV-screen aspect ratio even though it's showing in a widescreen window. And stretching Yoda vertically like that, interestingly, makes him look like an actor in makeup.


What I want to know is, why did they think it was a good idea to hide Anakin's son Luke from him by taking him to be raised on Anakin's homeworld of Tattooine, by Anakin's own relatives, and letting him keep the surname "Skywalker?"

In the novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vaderthere is a section where Vader meets with Bail Organa. In it (in his monologue) he is thinking about how much he hates revisiting the life of Anakin Skywalker. He tries to avoid those situations because they were when he was weak. In it they specifically mention Tatooine and how he refuses to return there as well.

 

[Christopher]

According to the expanded universe, it was in fact his motivator, and "Red" blew it himself after befriending Artoo in the sandcrawler and learning how important it was that he be liberated in order to continue his mission. Of course the key phrase here being "expanded universe".

I've read most of the novels and never encountered that. The EU gets a little bit out there sometimes, but not that far out.

Apparently it's not a canonical story, but a joke story by Peter David:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy_the_Jedi_Droid

 

[EnsignRicky]

According to the expanded universe, it was in fact his motivator, and "Red" blew it himself after befriending Artoo in the sandcrawler and learning how important it was that he be liberated in order to continue his mission. Of course the key phrase here being "expanded universe".

I've read most of the novels and never encountered that. The EU gets a little bit out there sometimes, but not that far out.

Apparently it's not a canonical story, but a joke story by Peter David:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy_the_Jedi_Droid

Actually I got that information out of my old copy of Galaxy Guide One: A New Hope from West End games. The new Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia set pretty much says the same thing. The only difference is that R5 allowed R2 to be the one to disable his motivator, after learning of his mission. He's also once again referred to here as Red.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Clone Yoda lives in R2