Movie sidekicks

Ok...somebody explain to me where those flight capabilities where when they could have used them in the original trilogy. Might have made him useful in a fight.

Otherwise, give me a Wookie who can kick some ass.

 

According to the Guide to Characters I own (I cannot believe I'm admitting to owning that), the flight capabilities were removed by someone who owned the droids after Padme died. Given that they were given to Bail Organa immediately after Padme's death, I think the continuity has gotten off though.

 

I was minus-4 when Star Wars came out.

 

Actually . . . . two things:

1. At what point in the original trilogy was the droid in a situation when those rockets would have come in handy? Maybe Dagobah?

2. www.starwars.com, at the time Episode II came out, had an online "newspaper" that was meant to be the media in the Star Wars world. There were articles such as someone complaining their yellow speeder was taken (by anakin for the chase at the beginning of the film, of course). And one issue had an item in which owners of astromech droids (such as R2-D2) were complaining that the little retro-rockets on those droids gave out after about 20 years, with the insurance having lapsed.

20 years between the prequels and the old films = simple, yet clever masterstroke to curb these questions by the folks at Mucasfilm.

Wish I had a link to that. But I kid you not.

 

See, I knew they'd changed the backstory after the prequels came out. Bastards!

 

The quintessential sidekick was the one in Rustler\'s Rhapsody. Anyone remember that gem??

I don\'t have a sidekick. It\'s in my theme song: I ride alone.

 

That just makes the SportsJournalists.com geek nation love you all the more, SC.

And it figures there would be an explanation. Just something that struck me about the 20th time I flipped by and saw Revenge of the Sith on HBO this month.