Interviewer: Harrison Ford once famously asked George Lucas to kill off Han Solo in Return of the Jedi. What is your personal preference for the fate of C-3PO?
Anthony Daniels: […] you have asked me a brilliant question… [Pause]. Humans die … I guess, wow. … Would he rust, gently? … I think probably he would realize that his programming was failing, that it was too old fashioned, and Microsoft had stopped supporting that particular brand. He would see upcoming new robots and realize his power source was running out. He’d say to R2, “Can you go down and get me a new power spectrum?” or whatever. I don’t think he’d ever — I’m looking at this image with [C-3PO wearing his replacement] silver leg … I think he would go on. Getting spare parts, getting surgery. And I think the people around him, humans and droids alike, would help because he had become part of their daily lives, part of their environment. They wouldn’t want to let him go. You know, I’m a great do-it-yourself person at home. I mend pretty much anything I can, whether it’s melting plastic with a hot skewer from the stove because the plastic is cracked, or with my glue gun mending this or that, or cannibalizing a part from something else that I kept in the workshop. I will keep objects going. I’m not from the throw-away culture, I’m from the make-and-mend culture. Threepio is nice to have around. I think he would go on and on and on.
- Anthony Daniels crushing my heart into warm fuzzy dust in an entertainment weekly interview
I wonder how much of the respect Obi-Wan and Anakin manage to earn before and during the Clone Wars is the direct result of Palpatine’s deft hand
Manipulating both sides so that they’ll create just the right circumstances for Anakin to swoop in and be a big damn hero (and Obi-Wan is there too)
And all the other Jedi are like “huh … I’m struggling, gotta be smart, but wow look at these guys, not struggling, there’s no such thing as luck right,” and maybe Yoda or Mace Windu notices that hey, things always seem to turn out strangely okay, these two always seem to be there at the opportune moment … good job boys, shame I can’t help you more, cloudy Dark Side and all that :( F in the force telepathy am I right
And then Vader winds up in not-so-opportune moments and acts like a cocky shit, because that’s what he was trained to do for 13 years, and boom! Bye, Death Star. It’s force lightning time now. You over-privileged loser
So basically I’m here to argue that Vader is the result of a 20-year “villain arc” after Anakin burns out from gifted child syndrome. In this essay I will
First Luke, now Obi-Wan. Apparently some fans can’t stand the idea that their heroes may be flawed individuals dealing with depression and trauma. Heaven forbid they actually show human weakness and frailty. Nope. They have to be badass 100% of the time. Otherwise it’s “character assassination.” *eye roll*
