Chat corner 68: Droids

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

The topic for this week is “droids”. Star Wars is a franchise where the robots are characters as (or more!) beloved than many of the blood-and-bone ones. Do you have any favorites? Or un-favorites? What are your thoughts on droid sentience? And why do you think there hasn’t been a droid uprising yet? (…or has there?)

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[annathecrow]

The Dark Side post link, use as per the rules.

[kittywhite]

On the topic of droid sentience there was a minor plot line in a few of the New Jedi Order books where C-3PO became rather concerned with his own mortality and tied to this plot there was a droid revolt Han assisted in that certainly seemed like the droids had independent thoughts.
Apparently if droids aren't memory wiped enough they begin to develop "quirks" outside of the usual programming so it could have just been that but I did feel at the time I was reading it they were going for more of an Astro Boy vibe with the issue of droid rights.

Also on topic for this week, check out this cool R2-D2 prototype lunch pail that wasn't released
http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=66523
I totally want one!

[extrapenguin]

I absolutely love R2-D2. He's so full of personality! And also one of the only characters to appear in all of the trilogies. (The Skywalker Saga should actually be the Palpatine vs R2-D2 Saga.) He's also spawned some really excellent droid characters when people want to rip off the "Jedi and his Droid" setup he had with Anakin and Luke – T3-M4 is a bit bland in the original KOTOR, but grows excellent in KOTOR 2, and T7-01 from the SWTOR Jedi Knight story is amazingly heartwarming. He is impossible to hate. I once accidentally picked an option that made him sad and had to ESC out of the conversation and redo it.

One idea I'd like to see done someday is a game where it looks like you're the Jedi Knight with a droid sidekick ... except that no, the droid is the protagonist and you, the Jedi, are the sidekick.

In non-droid-related things, I banged my head against Depa Billaba's age and came to the conclusion of time travel. Also, fun fact: Mace Windu and Shmi Skywalker are the same age!

[yourlibrarian]

Perfect opportunity to rec one of my favorite Star Wars vids: Trip Switch by colls: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22280416

[primeideal]

On the subject of droids (and last week's theme of RotS memes!) I wanted to rec this vid from the wonderful seekingferret: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40781472 Grievous/Obi-Wan :D