Rebels really plays up astromechs being jerks. Their droid is like HK-47 if he were a lazy employee @arthur_affect @Markey_P @charliejane
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astromechs are the droids who take apart and reprogram other droids, they're sociopaths
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
at best they're selected for a high degree of arrogance/confidence, like human surgeons
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Not big on the idea of sociopath as a pejorative but I can easily believe astromechs have less empathy
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the flip side is that protocol droids like 3PO are specifically designed to have no confidence
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his job is to translate for other people, you can't have him taking initiative
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that old post abt the Skywalker Conspiracy said R2 and Chewie used similar strategies
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stay under the radar as conspirators partly by having much more memorable figures speak for them
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Chewie poses as Han's sidekick while actually making the important decisions
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(the order of events at Mos Eisley is Ben meets up with Chewie and Chewie makes the intro to Han)
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the whole "negotiation" is Ben and Chewie letting Han and Luke play off each other
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letting them argue and make Han feel like he's struck a hard bargain on the rubes
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obscuring that getting Luke on the Falcon was always a foregone conclusion
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