Movie sidekicks

[Ellis Redding]

I'm unable to put more than five options due to mrsneakie, so just vote for other and post your choice.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The other three sons of Katie Elder.

 

[KJIM]

Chewbacca
(yes, I'm watching Star Wars now)

 

[Colonel Angus]

C'mon, where's the love for Jar-Jar Binks?

 

[PhilaYank36]

You can't go wrong with a Wookie

 

[Ace]

C3PO was a better sidekick than Chewbacca, who chewed up every scene he was in.

 

[subhead]

Bummer. I thought this was a thread about the Chuck Norris-Jonathan Brandis (RIP) movie.

 

[Gutter]

No love for Otis? For shame.

 

[Clever username]

The Sundance Kid

 

[Ellis Redding]

No love for Otis? For shame.

I'm sorry, Mr. Lou-Thor.

 

[outofplace]

Chewbacca leading the vote....as he should be.

C-3PO?

"Yeah, but droids don't rip your arms off if they lose. Wookies have been known to do that"

 

[sportschick]

R2D2 is the best sidekick, dammit! Nothing like a bitchy droid.

 

[outofplace]

R2D2 is the best sidekick, dammit! Nothing like a bitchy droid.

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.

 

[sportschick]

R2D2 is the best sidekick, dammit! Nothing like a bitchy droid.

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.

 

[Clever username]

I was minus-4 when Star Wars came out.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

R2D2 is the best sidekick, dammit! Nothing like a bitchy droid.

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.

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.

 

[sportschick]

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

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

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.

 

[outofplace]

R2D2 is the best sidekick, dammit! Nothing like a bitchy droid.

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.

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.