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Information technology is not modern in the Star Wars universe. Maybe the Star Wars galaxy's civilizations got distracted by hyperspace physics research and superweapon engineering, and missed out on the simple applications of electromagnetic induction.

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That's been kind of a flaw in Star Wars storytelling since then. The implication from that and other parts of ANH is that no one would ever suspect droids would be capable of such a thing. Like they are just meant to be simple robots who carry out simple tasks and menial chores. But then that is completely undermined by everything that came later.

They could have kept the idea going that R2 (and C3PO, by association) were completely exceptional as droids venturing out on their own and making decisions and navigating the world of living beings, but they went and made that commonplace so now it makes no sense that there wouldn't have been any suspicion of that when the escape pod blasts off.

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Revisionist fix-- when The Empire takes a ship they hack the control systems and jettison all escape pods so no one gets away. R2 just needed to get there early knowing it would happen.

Sounds like an old EU concept - slaving a ship to another's control.

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Wi-fi download capability, floppy disk storage space...these things you are discussing are all way too fine-of-a-point. When it comes to technology, military tactics, etc. you just have to accept whatever if you are going to enjoy Star Wars. Even in the original trilogy, and especially when it came to the death star plans.

 

Board the ship and accept surrender if possible, because we are looking for the plans and we want them alive for information. Okay. So far, so good.

 

If the escape pods have life forms, blow them all up; nobody gets out alive. But what if it had the plans on it? Because we definitely WILL find the plans on the ship and not on those pods they just launched. Huh?

 

If the escape pod has no life forms, don't blow it up. Yeah...but not because we are looking for the plans, but because why even bother. The pod definately could NOT have droids on it. Don't even chase it down.

 

Send a detachment to retreive the plans from the escape pod that you neglected to chase down earlier. It's not like there's any real emergency and the death star isn't actually in any danger at all. That's because it's sooooooo big. That's what she said.

 

Bring Patrick, the luckiest stormtrooper ever, along on the detachment party. If by chance there is a tiny, droid-identifying piece of hardware within a 5000-foot radius (that definately would NOT be immediately swallowed up by the first gust of wind) he will find it; thus proving with absolute certainty that it came from the escape pod that we didn't even think could've had droids on it in the first place.

 

The empire deserved to get blowed up.

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Bring Patrick, the luckiest stormtrooper ever, along on the detachment party. If by chance there is a tiny, droid-identifying piece of hardware within a 5000-foot radius (that definately would NOT be immediately swallowed up by the first gust of wind) he will find it; thus proving with absolute certainty that it came from the escape pod that we didn't even think could've had droids on it in the first place.

You mean Davin Felth?

 

Or what used to be Davin Felth anyway.

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I'll be that guy. I don't like it.

I'll... Fifth? Sixth? that.

 

Like a lot of SW, it wows at first, then starts to fray at the edges after repeated viewing and actually thinking about what happened.

 

And sometimes it does the complete opposite, like the summer of 14 when i watched ANH and realized its simultaneously the simplest and the most ground-breaking of the whole saga. And it was the first. i mean a whole planet was blown up! Cmon. How much more futuristic can you get than that? The best they did since then was blowing up 5 PLANETS. WOW. Even the Vader outfit was ground-breaking.

 

EDT: Star Trek couldn't do any better. SW exploded a planet, they imploded one.

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