Star Wars vs. Star Trek?

**Fe 26** · 24 Jun 2012, 01:03 AM

Fucking thank you.

How did so many of you reach adult hood and not get that?

**gamevet** · 24 Jun 2012, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Fe 26

Fucking thank you.

How did so many of you reach adult hood and not get that?

I don't know. I thought it was pretty obvious when Uncle Owen picked up C3PO and asked him if he could understand the binary language of moisture vaporators.

**Finch** · 24 Jun 2012, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by Razor Ramon

This thread has gone full retard.

It's a Star Wars vs. Star Trek thread.

**Fe 26** · 24 Jun 2012, 01:35 AM

Why did Razor even click the thread? What did he think would be here for him?

Kirk ramming out green fatties?

**Thief Silver** · 24 Jun 2012, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by gamevet

You could say the same for Han Solo and Princess Leia; She's royalty, while he's a smuggler of illegal goods.

C3PO may be a more advanced droid than R2D2, but together they are still viewed as tools by society. Their character design by Lucas, was meant to be that of one being the lead, while the other is the supposed follower. If you've watched any of the Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello films, those comedy duos use the same character styles.

Yes, the characters that are part of the Rebel Alliance are a mixture of all segments of society working together for a common goal, but the film still pays homage to a lot of the movies that influenced Lucas. Lucas had his childhood Dracula playing a Sith.

I was being entirely facetious. So good work there.

**Mzo** · 24 Jun 2012, 07:22 AM

Did you guys ever read the novelization of A New Hope? From what I remember it describes R2 as a way more agile 'droid doing flips all over an X-wing and performing repairs mid-flight. I wonder how much of what we ended up getting on-screen was due to the technical limitations of the time. That bucket of bolts could barely waddle along for a couple of feet without breaking down, it was a piece of shit robot.

Then again, everything to do with the 'droids in the prequels was incredible, mind-blowing garbage shit. We should be thankful for the technical limitations of the '70s and early '80s.

Anyway, threepio is a protocol droid. He translates languages and tells you which fork to use on your salad. His prissy, puckered anus personality comes from that. R2 is a maintenance droid. I don't know if the two were designed to work together in the field, but their true purpose in the movie was totally as a mismatched Laurel and Hardy comedy duo. No shit.

**gamevet** · 24 Jun 2012, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Thief Silver

I was being entirely facetious. So good work there.

I was being totally drunk. So thank you!

**Fe 26** · 24 Jun 2012, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Mzo

Then again, everything to do with the 'droids in the prequels was incredible, mind-blowing garbage shit. We should be thankful for the technical limitations of the '70s and early '80s.

Thats everything about star wars.

If George is left to his own devices and given unlimited resources, it puts his mental masturbations on screen. The original films are as good as they are because he was limited and was forced to think of ways of overcoming those limits.

"Well shit. I C3PO can barely walk, how the fuck am I going to make R2 flip around shit? Fuck! Well, what else would be good for a robot? Hmmm, well, everyone seems to like Daleks. I guess it could roll around like that. But it needs to be colorful and cute too. People need to know it is a good robot. Alright, got some blue on there and some lights. Maybe a few beeps. Yeah, this will work."