sindri42:

marches45:

peppermintschnapps:

acegraysons:

tbh my favorite part about the prequels and prequel-related stuff is that you don’t realize just how much of a little shit R2D2 until you watch it

there’s a ton of examples but my fave is how in Empire Strikes Back, when R2 and Luke are going to Dagobah, and R2 does his damnedest to convince Luke that it doesn’t actually exist, when 

he’s literally been there before

he has his memory wiped at the end of episode 3

That was 3PO.

R2 remembers Dagobah and hates it which is why he refuses to go there.

But yeah, 3PO gets wiped repeatedly which is why he never talks about past events, but R2-D2 has total continuity of mind from when he was a maintenance droid on Padme’s yacht through the latest movie. That’s why he’s such a little shit and also why he’s so good at what he does.

iirc, him never having his memory wiped was a plotpoint at one point. like he got captured and knew all the secrets and had to be rescued before they retrieved all his data