So If You Hate Star Wars...

...you can skip this post (but I simply DON'T understand how that's possible).

A moment of fridge logic occurred to me while Elie was watching Star Wars (no, NOT episode IV A New Hope, dangit, it was just Star Wars when it came out and that's still what I call it...you kids, get off my lawn...)

So when the R5 unit blows up after Luke's uncle buys if from the Jawas, See-Threepio says, "Excuse me, sir, but that R2 unit is in prime condition. A real bargain."

So then later, when Luke is trying to get Artoo to play back the whole message, Threepio says, " Quite frankly, sir I don't know what he's talking about. Our last master was Captain Antilles, but with what we've been through, this little R2 unit has become a bit eccentric."

After Artoo has run away, Threepio says, "That R2 unit has always been a problem. These astro-droids are getting quite out of hand. Even I can't understand their logic at times."

And just a few lines later Luke complains, "You know that little droid is going to cause me a lot of trouble."

And Threepio says, "Oh, he excels at that, sir."

What a lying, gold-plated piece of junk. Man, if I were Luke, I would have melted him down on the spot. Oh, take the blue one, he's in, and I quote, "prime condition". Of course he has a flutter, and he's eccentric and he excels at causing trouble...but otherwise, prime condition.

Misrepresentation. Like so many things in life, Artoo-Detoo isn't exactly what he's first said to be. The grass is always greener, right? The new job will be more money and less work, right? Whatever - I don't feel like making any kind of deep points today - just struck me as I was listening to the movie when Elie was watching it...