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From "78 Reasons To Hate Episode I":

I will not accept that fact that Anakin built C-3P0. I won't do it. You can torture me in a scene reminiscent of the finale in Braveheart and I will cry out "Freedom!" rather than admit to this horse shit. Anakin simply didn't build C-3P0, end of story. Anakin says that he's good at building things. I'll believe that. My friend's nine-year old son used to build stuff and wire up all the home electronics. That I'll believe. Anakin built a Pod Racer. I will even believe that. I will entertain the notion that he may have put C-3P0 together using an "Assemble Your Own Robot" home kit but I doubt that they give those away to slave boys. I have one simple defense to prove that he didn't build C-3P0: Anakin Skywalker--the ten year old boy--does not know 6,000,000 forms of communication. Does Anakin Skywalker have experience with binary loadlifters? No. We know that C-3P0 does. Does Anakin Skywalker know how to speak Ewok? I doubt it. C-3P0 can. Does Anakin Skywalker know how to understand moisture vaporators? Probably not since he's not a machine (yet). The only language (other than the main language that they speak [which Lucas would probably call "English]) that Anakin knows is Huttese. I'll accept the fact that maybe he was lying to try to impress Padme in hopes that she would sleep with him. I hope that's what it was because otherwise I'm very upset with this turn of events.

The Force is strong with this one...

http://www.chefelf.com/starwars/ep1.php

Comments

[fantomas71.livejournal.com]

One of the most egregious of a long list of theses to be nailed to the door of Lucasfilm, LTD.

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm a fan of Episode I, but if you're willing to believe that Anakin can complete an "Assemble Your Own Robot" home kit and/or build a podracer, it doesn't seem that far a stretch to say that he found/acquired "black box" modules from spare parts/etc that could do those things (languages, etc.) A few hundred thousands of languages on a chip and a good VI processor and it could probably extrapolate the rest.

Plug and play, etc. Advanced copy/paste. Many names it has, this thing.

- Jeho

[tapestry01.livejournal.com]

I always figured the six million forms of communication module came as a standard software package for protocol droids. (Or maybe it was a service pack...)

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read anything as funny as this guys web site in a very, Very long time...