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...R2-D2 In Episode I, C-3PO is 9-year-old Anakin's science project. He befriends R2-D2 on planet Naboo and later acquires his golden outer shell...
...mathematician and her mother a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her parents raised her, she says, to be "protechnology." Breazeal became captivated by robots at age 8 when she saw Star Wars for the first time. "I just fell in love with the Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming a doctor and an astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly intrigued by lunar rovers, which are really just...
...Dependency on the originals extends far beyond decorative quoting: it informs the structure of Lucas' script so that Episode I gets lost in a world of juicy but ultimately soulless revelation. Every five minutes a new character makes its incredibly propitious entrance into the Star Wars saga--R2-D2 is the droid that saves the queen's ship from destruction and C-3PO was Darth Vader's boyhood engineering hobby--Tatooine just happens to be the most convenient planet for a pit stop...
JAWAS Episode IV --Tatooine scavengers; captured R2-D2 and C-3PO and sold them to Luke's uncle...
...Episodes I, IV-VI --Protocol droid created by Anakin; owned by Leia, then Luke; partners with R2-D2...