Tom and Ben solved Star Wars

[@JasonAguirre]

I love so much that at the end of the prequel movies when senator organa takes the droids, he says clean up the astromech droid and wipe the protocol droids memory. Cuz he knows c3-po would tell the first hundred beings he met exactly who the twins are but R2-D2 don't snitch.

[@bryanlinsmeyer3521]

R2-D2 is a real one fr fr

[@TheSongaroo]

Could he even though? Like...I am fairly sure precisely 2 people knew how to understand r2d2...cuz, I, for one, sure as hell aint understanding it. Like, he isnt bumblebee, he beeps...whos he gonna snitch to...his beeps could literally be, only, "anakin is vader, and luke and leia is his twin children"... could be the only shit he says. Idk. But I dont think anyone else does, either.

[@JasonAguirre]

@@TheSongaroo c3-po translates for him on the regular. He can also communicate to any viewscreen...

[@TheSongaroo]

@@JasonAguirre Sure. Idk. The likely hood of anyone believing it is low. And two things would have to align. For one to know that anakin is vader, and for one to trust the words of the droid. Even then, c3po wasnt with r2d2 the enitre time, and r2d2 didnt have access to most ui terminals in which to tell peeps. Not to mention who would trust a random droid. The foreknowledge one would need to connect the dots makes it quite unlikely to begin with. And, say all things align, you'd still need more proof than a droids words. C3po would be able to explain literally everything that happened. In a quick and concise manner to everyone he met, as he was literally built to do so. R2d2 could not. What should have happened was vader trying to find r2d2 or cp3o to find out more, but dude basically made his past dead, and purposefully avoided it. Let dead men rest and all that.

[@REDDAWNproject]

you have to remember, one of the biggest things in star wars is how underrated R2 is. Its why he's the one recording and retelling the whole story.

[@swearimnotarobot3746]

I presumed he rebuilt c3po out our parts of a broken c3po

[@SirButtz]

someone was probably throwing a ton of ones away with blaster damage because they're annoying as shit

[@swearimnotarobot3746]

@@SirButtz lol

[@luckyrashes]

Plugged in the eye, "I made this"

[@rocketforthree4479]

Theres going to be a disney pre-prequel movie-show that explains how a c3po is destroyed and lands on Tatooine. And theres a 99% chance its going to be bc of a Skywalker

[@roopot]

In Legends Anakin found C3PO in a scrapheap

[@The_Disturber]

It is actually canon that Annakin didn't build C-3PO from scratch, he more so rebuild him, from different parts, C-3PO himself says he has had different owners before Annakin and Padme

[@Bloodfencer1990]

C-3PO was also cannonically over 300 years old by the time Anakin found him. You gotta give it to those droid factories, their products are built to last.

[@domehammer]

@@Bloodfencer1990 At some point you gotta make stuff last since been building protocol droids for four thousand years.

[@shinjisan2015]

Pretty close... Anakin was told by his mother that she works for Watto as a translator and protocol interpreter for all his various customers. She hides the fact that Watto actually pimps her out. Anakin heard about C3PO protocol droids and so built one himself from what he could find, but it's not quite the same, in the hope it could make his mother's job easier... Childhood innocence.

[@thediethrower1803]

Wow... that just makes the slavery shit even worse. And, yet the Jedi refused to stop slavery (and so did the Empire...)

[@andrewgreeb916]

@@thediethrower1803 the republic was a bunch of corrupt monarchies and dictatorships. The empire is just a dictatorship. Why would either of those feel the need to go over to hodunk nowhere and root out slavery?

[@54lolman]

@@thediethrower1803 Well there is a few things to consider in the defense of the Jedi, and I'll be going with the old canon here though some of the points might still be valid. 1. It is not as if the Jedi don't try to stop slavery at all. For example in the clone wars there was that whole arc with the cat people. As they stated, they once controlled an entire slave empire until the Jedi finally put an end to it. 2. Even when they were at their largest in terms of numbers (Like the thousands not even the tens of thousands). Jedi were rare enough that they were still regarded across the galaxy on many planets as being only tales of fantasy. 3. Most slavery in the Star Wars Universe occurs in the Outer Rim. Its a vast territory where the Republic has little to no control over it and can give barely any support. Meaning if a Jedi wanted to rid slavery on an entire planet they would most likely be alone. 4. The Jedi are pledged by a treaty to be the sworn Guardians of the Republic. Over time they would became more tied with the Republic Government that by the Clone Wars they almost couldn't act at times without government approval. This in turn would often mean that the majority of Jedi had to stay within Republic borders, and also could not act against slavery in worlds controlled by other nations. 5. As is stated Jedi are peacekeepers and are meant to play the part of defenders, not aggressors. Sometimes, slavery just might be a part of a planet's culture and is not controlled by gangsters or some such, but is a social norm. In these cases if the Jedi were to act they would be the aggressors and depending on who you ask would be going against their code. Even if slavery is a moral wrong regarded by many if its a social and cultural norm by a society Jedi can't act upon emotions. 6. Now let's disregard reasons 2-5 for a moment, and say that a group of Jedi came together. Decided to stop slavery on a planet and it was ruled by criminals. Now, if it was just a couple of towns here and there. Sure it would a simple matter! Yet on an entire planet wide scale it still not might be entirely feasible for a group of Jedi. Jedi are powerful there is not doubt about that, but against an entire planet of criminals the Jedi would be very much outnumbered and outgunned significantly and they're not blaster proof. The Hutt Cartel has sent many a noble Jedi to the grave who tried to stop their activities for example.

[@Srparisher]

So what your telling me is Anakin definitely has a father then. If you're picking up what I'm laying down.

[@Dostwyn]

Is this some extended universe bs they made up in some cartoon in a desperate attempt to fix the complete mess George Lucas had produced?

[@RuNoMai]

I was taking a drink when Tom broke out the Watto voice and now I think I need a new laptop

[@mungobaggins8197]

They almost made it to my favorite crack theory, Watto is Anakin’s real father.

[@titanuranus3095]

I read this comment before watching and I love how much worse it gets.

[@mannmctrash]

I like the OneyPlays theory that George Lucas came up with everything for the prequels while sleeping, with a team of people around him taking notes. "George what should we do for the walkers?" "Mmh... Camels... Camels are scary..."

[@ak74udieby]

He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy

[@titanuranus3095]

@@mannmctrash I don't like camels, they are coarse and rough and irritating - and comes everywhere.

[@MagicCardboardBox]

Very crack theory, wow

[@FreakDaMIghet]

It is confirmed that C-3PO was an assembly made Droid, but got trashed by his original owner and Anakin scavenged his parts out of Watto's junk pile.

[@SolidSquid1]

I mean, they lived on a scrap yard, maybe the reason 3PO was a protocol droid is because *nobody* saw the point in having one and they threw him out. Anakin saw him and figured he could fix him and re-program as an assistant but got taken away by Kenobi before he had a chance to do the re-programming

[@REDDAWNproject]

this is pretty much it. George wanted to give anakin an analogue to his own childhood hobby of fixing old cars.

[@kabhes9040]

@@REDDAWNproject So it was a self insert?

[@REDDAWNproject]

@@kabhes9040 kind of? The skywalkers are representing two versions of lucas, i mean its why luke is Luke S. Lucas, when he was a teen, got into a terrible car accident where he was stuck on a table for weeks, and he made luke and anakin go through similar events (luke with the wampa, anakin with mustafar). How they came out of those traumatic events is dependent on thier own characterization. Anakin succumbed to his desires, Luke found new moral strength, and was able to redeem anakin too.

[@nicholasscott3287]

Luke with the wampa was because George Hammill got into a car accident right before they started filming Enpire Strikes Back and they needed an explanation for why he had a scar on his face.

[@warhawk9566]

So while I am okay with Anakin building C-3P0 cause it lead to some nice extended universe storytelling, if i could change it, I would have made C-3P0 a droid in Padme's service. She's a diplomat and he's a protocol droid, it's literally a perfect match and in clone wars he's almost always with her when she's on a diplomatic mission. And I would have made R2-D2's Anakin's cause not only is an astromech really helpful for the kinda labor he was doing, but he could be really helpful with the whole podracing thing.

[@denimandlead7725]

“The last of my slave money” lol

[@jonahcraven8669]

I love it when these conversations happen between these two. Not only do I get to watch them slowly piece together something hilarious, but then I also get to look down in the comments and see all the nerds who know exactly what the real answer is come out and explain it all for me, so I get to learn too :)

[@FriendlyKat]

0:46 Someone in chat asking the real questions... "Does C3P0 clench his butt?"

[@koenvandamme6901]

Chat was gold during this bit

[@mannmctrash]

Does C3P0 have a shiny gold pernus

[@summbuddie9120]

I thought he was planning on upselling c3po and stealing parts to make him

[@travishimebaugh8381]

I bet stepping barefoot on a droid part really hurts

[@tuffy135ify]

You know someone is into that.

[@DarthVincentiusOfficial]

Dont want to assemble Star Wars Legion droids?! NEITHER DID I until I found myself with 2 starter sets and 2 commisions to build paint them...They are literal and actual hell. And if you thought Necrons were bad...naw.

[@winchelseabeach4863]

Can we just all appreciate that Tom did a REALLY GOOD watto impression 😂

[@andrewrobinson4019]

This… this makes too much sense. It’s IMPOSSIBLE!

[@erraticuk]

Lets be honest, if a young boy is building a life size robot in his room its not for protocol reasons.

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

too much rick and morty LMAO :)

[@BiggestBigBoy]

Gwendolyn...🥴

[@HelenaOfDetroit]

Idk, some boys might call that a protocol

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

@@HelenaOfDetroit LOL

[@ak74udieby]

I think maybe watto just owned a scrapyard and anikan got parts for the podracer and 3po there when he won races, or watto had him fix robots and let him keep 3po

[@Narbaculus]

He never won a race-not even finished-until Boonta Eve.

[@domehammer]

@@Narbaculus So Watto had been making money by betting against Anakin knowing he can't win.

[@maverick9334]

People forget that Anakin built the "Core structure" of c3po. His "step brothers" family added the iconic c3po kit. So it is understandable that Anakin did build the core of c3po himself and that the outer shell is just a basic off the shelf buy added on. Would explain why while looking the same, C3po is much different and better then the average version.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Anakin hates sand. In a new hope C3PO comments about hating sand when they land on Tattooine.

[@andrewgreeb916]

C3PO is a picky Droid, not that anyone cares about Droid sentience. C3PO complains rather often when he's in a circumstance he doesn't want to be in.

[@mukulnag1578]

This makes more sense than every new sequel movie....

[@TehSlan]

Had to come back to this after today's episode

[@MagicCardboardBox]

Nah, Shimi was a translator, there's a thousand alien species on tatooine and no universal translators. It's the obvious job. I'm sure there are slave brothels or whatever for other stuff. He did sell her to her future husband, though, who did free her, so I guess that worked out...

[@OrangeDog20]

The real question is why didn't Boba immediately get a protocol droid when he took over Jabba's palace?

[@darkAwesome100]

To be fair, C3PO has been shown doing a lot random domestic chores over the years. He's closer to a butler than just a translator.

[@WestOfEarth]

I was thinking it was the reverse 'Pinocchio' story. Anakin was building himself a father.

[@krumpits]

I know its dark, but watto sold anakins mom off to be a guys wife. I think its pretty easy to guess what her “job” was

[@cxfxcdude]

I think Watto said that he just sold Schme and they fell in love, he freed her then married her

[@Vodhr]

Actually, as stated, Wato just sold her - not for a specific purpose, and then only after did they fall in love and got married. Although, if you just peel away to romanticizised element of it, imagine how that really worked out... Buying a slave and then having said slave be controlled with an exploding implant. "You know, I think I have fallen for you, Scheme." "I... Don't know how to respond to that! You bought me, and have a kill switch for me so how can I say anything other than..." *Wreeeeeee*... "...other than, when is the wedding?"

[@MagicCardboardBox]

Well he did free her after

[@MagicCardboardBox]

I'm guessing it's a translator... 'Cause there's a thousand alien species on tattooine and they don't have universal translators

[@YamiOni]

Well, it's more coherent than most fan-theories...

[@TheSantr]

That's y he fell for Tom aka palp

[@bobdrooples]

Watto gotta big proboscis.

[@Grimmblazee]

good bit

[@baalrog887]

I'd love to see StarWars but with Kryten instead of C3PO

[@MartinOlminkhof]

So passive-aggressive of him to gift a protocol droid You could say it was for something else but Anakin was too young to understand such things

[@monk5556]

I love how much this makes sense hahaha

[@spelcheak]

He needs to be able to bow and do sign languages.

[@wizardgherkin]

1:45 excuse me what did zvynikoni say?

[@wizardgherkin]

nvm 5:50 on from tom and ben is clearly more deranged.

[@jonasquinn7977]

Today I learned that Ben and Tom have never watched Clone Wars because we see a few Toydarians there And the king is kind of a badass

[@vegancam]

I think you mean Clone Wars

[@jonasquinn7977]

@@vegancam damnit, corrected

[@fosterbennington6405]

In the first episode, no less

[@Dream146]

the real question is in a world with sophisticated multi task robots why are human slaves a thing? Like slaves you have to house, feed and you can only get 10-12 hours of decent work out of them a day whereas a robot might be a bigger initial investment but you'd make back your money pretty quick.

[@End3rDJgaming]

Honestly? Probably debtors. They can't pay you back money they don't have, you have to keep an eye on them so they don't run away, and you can't have them dying before they pay you back. Slavery makes the most sense then

[@The_Void_Alchemist]

Does the "rhyming" here mean bb8 and palpy are an item?

[@TopLob]

I'm 100% convinced that George Lucas never saw, wrote or directed any part of either the original trilogy or the prequels. He can have done one of them, but not both. The discontinuity is so grotesque that he might as well have had Leia as Anakin's mom and Luke as his neighbor.

[@Jason0binladen]

Slave money is an oxymoron, if a slave was getting paid they wouldn't be a slave

[@Candlemancer]

That's entirely untrue. Slaves throughout history were often given spending money by their owners. There was a whole culture in Rome of slaves being able to buy themselves back from their owners, which obviously wouldn't have been possible if slaves couldn't have money.

[@bubrub5564]

Do people just forget they can fact check themselves at any time before commenting?

[@anathardayaldar]

Yeah, how did the son of a slave girl afford to have and build a protocol droid and practice at pod racing?

[@SirButtz]

his mum literally slaved away for the magazines

[@luckyrashes]

Theft

[@charimonfanboy]

He worked at a salvage yard dealing with scrap ships and robots. Plus it's Tattooine, no starbucks or avocado toast, so he's probably saving thousands

[@bryanlinsmeyer3521]

Yeah I think the idea is he just kinda nicked parts he found over time and built the stuff from scratch; C3PO probably made from like 1000 different protocol droid's scrapped bodies

[@anathardayaldar]

ANSWER: He used Da Force! Han Solo: That's NOT how that works!