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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Red Admiral: [qb] In Ep IV, when they set down on tattoine, he (it) immediately takes off in a certain direction as if he knows where he is, and where he's going. 3PO doesn't know where they are, but R2, it seems, remembers Tattoine, and that Kenobi is a residant there, and where he lives. He also escapes after being purchased from Owen, still trying to seek Obiwan.[/qb][/QUOTE]I'm not sure this is really an indication of R2 not having had a memory wipe, as he was [i]programmed with the mission of going to Tatooine and finding Kenobi by Leia at the beginning of the film.[/i] [QUOTE][b]It is also mentioned that Obiwan once owned this R2 unit, R2 remembers it, Obiwan doesn't though [i]"I don't seem to recall owning any droids before..."[/i] Maybe he's getting senile in his old age. But I thought that this was quite a nice touch in continuity with the prequels.[/QUOTE][/b] But Obi-Wan never *did* own R2, nor (that we have seen in the prequels or elsewhere) any other droid. I'm a-thinking that the "I am the property of Obi-Wan Kenobi" bit was just the method for relaying Leia's message. [b] [QUOTE]About these mysterious 'Meta-clorines' (sic) - the organisms that give rise to the force. Did this exist in Wars canon before Ep I came along? [/b][/QUOTE]As far as I know, the midichlorians (that's the proper spelling, I think) were invented by Lucas for Episode I, as a way of pseudo-scientifically "explaining" what the Force really is. Personally, I thought it sounded forced (no pun intended :p ) and pretty damned lame. IMO it would have been better to just leave the Force's description as it was given by Obi-Wan in ANH, ("...an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the Galaxy together.") and leave the molecular biology ambiguous. That may be the kind of thing that Trek is about, but it destroys some of the wonder and mystery of Star Wars. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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