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[ID: An edit of Hermione and FLO both calling out to Dex: “Somebody to see ya, honey! …Jedi by the looks of ‘im.” End ID]
TheAttack of the Clones script, novels, and film have two different takes on how Dexter Jettster is alerted to Obi-Wan’s arrival, “…Jedi by the looks of him.”
It’s incredible how much the change in tone of a single line can imply two very different possibilities.
Note: FLO’s name has been recently confirmed in new canon to be “Wanda” and that Lucas also began referring to Hermione as “Harmony” shortly before the sale to Disney. However, since this will be using Legends materials, I will be using the Legends names.
Also I’m very attached to the names Hermione and FLO and it’s going to take awhile for me to accept Harmony and Wanda. That’s just how it is.
In the script and novelizations, the line “Someone to see ya, honey. Jedi by the looks of him,” is said by FLO or Hermione in a low tone, trying to give Dexter Jettster an edge on whatever interrogation might be coming his way by the Jedi.
I like this take. I like that FLO and Hermoine are on the look-out to watch Dex’s back. Dex is described and shown as incredibly loyal. His employees keeping an eye out for him like this reinforces that.
Scattered throughout ancillary material, we can also find personal reasons on FLO and Hermione’s parts that Dexter Jettster has given them to have his back.
For Hermione, she had grown up in the lower levels of Coruscant. Dexter Jettster had stumbled across her – still a teen girl struggling to survive – and offered her a job, a sense of stability (AOTC Visual Dictionary, Fact File #60).
Hermione’s family also acquired ties to the diner, through family recipes making it to the menu, and Dex describing her father as a friend (Dining at Dex’s, Insider #65). It’s clear that Hermione’s got some pride in this place.
FLO’s backstory is sparse. She is a “spirited antique” whose program allows her to handle the tough crowd that arrives in the diner, but there’s certain elements to her dynamic with Dex that makes it seem like her loyalty is earned beyond programming.
Dex has resisted attempts to reprogram FLO, to make her nicer and more customer-friendly, both from maintenance recommendations and from the fiddling hands of Anakin Skywalker himself (Fact File #64, Insider #65)
Additionally, there is an implication that FLO took action to defend herself against harassment among the diner staff, and Dex has no critique or bad word for FLO. In fact, he almost sounds a little proud of her.
Contradictory information in Legends can result in the BEST mini stories.
Fact File: FLO always flirts with the dishwasher droid. Maybe the dishwasher programmed her to do that.
Dining At Dex’s: FLO dismantled the dishwasher down to spare parts for spreading gossip about her.
Even without the smattering of details we have about Dex and his past with Hermione and FLO, the fact that they would be willing to put themselves between him and a Jedi Knight speaks volumes of who these people are to each other.
The film, on the other hand, has FLO shouting “Jedi by the looks of him” from across the diner in a way that feels like a familiar razzing. Look what the cat dragged in. Implying that Obi-Wan is a regular there enough for the staff to dig at him.
This also lines up with how Dex treats Obi-Wan in Wild Space. To conceal his real purpose of sharing intel, Dex delightedly drags Obi-Wan in front of all his customers, a cover that wouldn’t work nearly as well if FLO and Hermione hadn’t made a habit of it.
