Why does Obi-Wan not recognize 3PO and R2?

[Uzumaki Goku]

This has always bothered me after the prequels. Obi-Wan clearly interacts with 3PO and R2 in the prequels… yet doesn't seem to recognize them in the OT? Maybe he was not trying to give things away to Luke but there's another line that doesn't work.

"I don't seem to remember owning a droid."

Uh you did. R4 remember?

 

[SteveWinwood]

the force

 

[Antrax]

Obi-Wan doesn't really like droids or bond with them. I doubt he'd be all that bummed if, during the Clone Wars, something had happened to either 3PO or R2.

 

[ILikeFeet]

probably to stay in hiding

 

[GJ]

The prequels were made after the original trilogy. So he met them in the prequels after the original trilogy.

 

[super-famicom]

Obi Wan didn't own C3PO or R2D2, Queen Amidala did.

 

[WhySoDevious]

Because it wouldn't have rhymed.

 

[Aiqops]

Because Lucas had no idea what would happen in the future.

 

[Fat4all]

The prequels were made after the original trilogy. So he met them in the prequels after the original trilogy.

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makes sense

 

[Gleethor]

I mean he was lying

 

[Darknight]

Uh you did. R4 remember?

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He didn't own R4.

 

[Tfritz]

this is literally the main plot of the obi wan series

 

[WascallyWabbit]

The prequels were made after the original trilogy. So he met them in the prequels after the original trilogy.

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Can't argue with this logic

 

[L Thammy]

not thinking out how how your new story ideas interact with previous stories < not thinking out how your new story ideas interact with the story you're still in the middle of telling

 

[SteveWinwood]

this is literally the main plot of the obi wan series

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how he gets amnesia?

 

[Firebrand]

how he gets amnesia?

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Spoiler: Death sticks

 

[GungHo]

Hollywood amnesia.

 

[Kromis]

this is literally the main plot of the obi wan series

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Has the plot been revealed or leaked? I'm assuming it will try to fill in that little discrepancy though.

 

[signal]

thoughts clouded by Insanius

 

[grand]

He's racist towards droids

 

[mattiewheels]

Another retcon: the first movie didn't even have Episode IV in the opening, they added it after ESB, right?

 

[Tfritz]

Has the plot been revealed or leaked? I'm assuming it will try to fill in that little discrepancy though.

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i don't really know but i'd assume it will just because the han solo movie decided it needed to explain or depict literally every offhand reference to han solo's backstory so

 

[Khanimus]

Because like most in the galaxy, he doesn't care about droids.

And because Lucas said "ah, fuck it, who cares"

 

[Wereroku]

Because star wars was a stand alone movie originally.

 

[Khanimus]

Another retcon: the first movie didn't even have Episode IV in the opening, they added it after ESB, right?

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They added it when the movie was put back into theaters in 1978, i think.

 

[L Thammy]

the sad reality is that no matter what you do in life, no matter how much energy you put into your relationship with the people you thought were your friends, no one will remember you because you're a dork

 

[Uzumaki Goku]

Because like most in the galaxy, he doesn't care about droids.

And because Lucas said "ah, fuck it, who cares"

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Only Luke and Anakin seemed to like droids.

 

[SamAlbro]

Do you remember everyone you worked with 20 years ago?

 

[Kromis]

 

[Joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

I can only imagine he treated droids like appliances. If someone asked me if I remembered a toaster that I had owned 20 years ago I'd probably say the same thing Obiwan did.

 

[III-V]

Obi Wan is a liar

 

[Uzumaki Goku]

He didn't own R4.

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He was pretty nonchalant when R4 was destroyed.

 

[Punch_Rockgroin]

A good question... for another time.

 

[DarthWalden]

If you saw your first Ipod in a thrift shop, would you recognize it?

 

[Mivey]

Spoiler: Death sticks

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Can you blame him, though? Everyone on that damn desert planet offers them to him constantly, and the guy literally has nothing to do all that. Everyone would give in to the temptation at least once, and that's exactly how they get you.

 

[Deimos]

The prequels were made after the original trilogy. So he met them in the prequels after the original trilogy.

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[Ferrio]

Cause he's old, lots of time has passed, and he doesn't recognize droids as living beings. How many R2 units did he see in his life?

 

[NookSports]

this is literally the main plot of the obi wan series

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Please no. That's "How did Han Solo get his name?" Level of fan service.

I mean he was lying

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This is the best explanation and should be left unaddressed. At the very leas you can say he was stretching the truth like said in Jedi

 

[ASTROID2]

Maybe he just forgot about them. Many years past people forget about things.

 

[Hambulance]

If there's a Bigger Luke then there could also be a Bigger Obi-Wan from that same universe who never met the droids.

 

[Uzumaki Goku]

Please no. That's "How did Han Solo get his name?" Level of fan service.



This is the best explanation and should be left unaddressed. At the very leas you can say he was stretching the truth like said in Jedi

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Like…. I just assumed Solo was his name. Never came to mind how he got it.

 

[jackie daytona]

He's bad at his job

 

[kurahador]

The prequels were made after the original trilogy. So he met them in the prequels after the original trilogy.

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That's not how prequels works!!

 

[TheDestructiveSquirrel]

If you saw your first Ipod in a thrift shop, would you recognize it?

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If it started playing a hologram of someone I knew, yes

 

[Crossing Eden]

A reminder that Obi-wan was blatantly lying to Luke in the first film.

 

[mrmoose]

I mean, why didn't Anakin recognize them?

Why did Obi Won go into hiding on the planet where Anakin was born, not changing his name, protecting a boy named Luke who similarly never changed his name from Skywalker?

Why did they surmise that Anakin wasn't ready to be a jedi because he was too old at the time of indoctrination, and he was too attached to his feelings, yet they let one of their only hopes, Luke, grow even older before being introduced to the Jedi ways, and in many ways more strongwilled and ruled by his emotions? They are very, very lucky Luke wasn't as attached to his uncle and aunt as Anakin was to his mother.

 

[Doggg]

 

[NookSports]

Like…. I just assumed Solo was his name. Never came to mind how he got it.

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Exactly. It needed no explanation, just like how the Obi Wan question doesn't

 

[GDGF]

Cause he's a fucking liar.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Presumably the next star wars shower thought topic is gonna be titled

"Why did Obi-wan lie to Luke about his father?"

Why did Obi Won go into hiding on the planet where Anakin was born, not changing his name, protecting a boy named Luke who similarly never changed his name from Skywalker?

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Because he knew that the last place Anakin would ever go to is his home. Darth Vader straight up admits this.