It’s just this brain, designed by man, has got me in trouble again
Of the two cartoon series inspired by Star Wars, as a kid I thought Droids was by far the weaker. Yeah, there were lots of moments where people were shooting at each other with lasers, and ships would fly around or race each other, plus I think there was even a Star Destroyer at one point. But 3PO and R2D2 weren’t exactly the heroes of the Star Wars movies, they never shot at anyone ever, and instead just combined conversations with outrageous self-sacrifice to get things done. The themes at work were not at all suited to 9 year-olds looking for lightsabre action.
In retrospect, it was a strange concept for anyone to write: two characters, one driven by an ingrained sense of propriety and the other by dogged loyalty — neither suited to be the hero, and yet both at the center of a narrative. That the writers cooked up at least three storylines where, from behind the scenes, these two funny little droids saved the day and made heroes out of their masters is pretty darned good.
That at least two of those storylines were better-crafted than Episodes 1 through 3… well, that’s less surprising.
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