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halibut Title: FF GSA & FF-UK RSA / Saga Mod Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 4/7 6:47am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'? - Date Edited: 4/7 6:47am (1 edits total) Edited By: halibut
	In ANH, Luke says "If they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to. And that would lead them...home!" This is the ONLY time that droids are referred to as robots. Was this deliberate, or was it something that just slipped through the net? In the 1st draft of the script, "robots" is used throughout in the scene descriptions, but only the word "androids" is ever spoken In the 2nd draft, "robot" is never spoken, but "android" has been placed by "droid" in the dialogue In the 3rd draft, exactly the same. No "robots" in the dialogue. So, why just the single utterance of "robots" in ANH? -----signature----- They are not "songs", they are "tracks" or "cues" ROTJ - "It has a nice mix of muppets and patricide that you don't see very often" - Darthboba Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
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CaptainYossarian Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 4/7 1:46pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'? - Date Edited: 4/7 1:53pm (1 edits total) Edited By: CaptainYossarian
	It may well be just a holdover from earlier versions - Lucas was going to use the common term 'robot' but then replaced it in favour of 'droid' which he liked better. Perhaps in the end he did want both terms to be used (to reinforce the idea that a robot and a droid were the same thing) but didn't want to switch between them all the time and so only a single reference survived. starwars.com's Q&A section used to have an answer that discussed this issue as well: There's nothing wrong with the word "robot." It's a primitive, more provincial synonym to "droid," in the same way "spaceship" is to "starship," or "laser sword" is to "lightsaber." Before more Star Wars stories were published, proving the preference for the term "droid," the term "robot" could be found more frequently in early Expanded Universe lore. Terms like "robo-hauler," "mouse robot," and "robo-bartender" can be found in these early sources. So it is Luke who uses the term on Tatooine and perhaps it is in more out of the way places where older (and perhaps more 'Earthly') terms like that persist. -----signature----- "Orr would be crazy to fly any more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
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voodoopuuduu Title: Classic Trilogy Trivia Host Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 4/7 6:09pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	Maybe Mark Hamill mispoke the line (or changed it himself) and GL being under such pressure to get the film finished, said screw it, its fine, Im not doing another take ? -----signature----- Winner CT Trivia Challenge 44, 54 Winner PT Trivia Challenge 10 , 13, 14, 17 Joint-Winner CT Challenge 49 and 50, PT Challange 18
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FirBholg Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 4/8 6:02am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	My suspicion is that it is there just to establish, for those who have yet to figure it out, that the droids are, in fact, robots. -----signature----- "I have waited a long time for this, my little green friend." F.I.G.S.
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 4/8 8:26am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	It's just another word than means the same thing. What's the big deal? -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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halibut Title: FF GSA & FF-UK RSA / Saga Mod Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 4/8 8:43am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	It's not a MASSIVE deal, but it's certainly odd that it's the ONLY time where the word droids is not used in all six films (with the possible exception of 3PO's "Machines making machines") -----signature----- They are not "songs", they are "tracks" or "cues" ROTJ - "It has a nice mix of muppets and patricide that you don't see very often" - Darthboba Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
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DARTH_BELO Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 4/8 9:11am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	voodoopuuduu posted: Maybe Mark Hamill mispoke the line (or changed it himself) and GL being under such pressure to get the film finished, said screw it, its fine, Im not doing another take ? TBH, I think this is most likely... But I also like the definition given in the Q+A section,(referenced above) that helps rationalize it, IMO. -----signature----- There are NO trilogies - only ONE SAGA...
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 4/8 5:12pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	It's interesting to note I guess, but both words are pretty much interchangeable. It wouldn't be any more odd to have a movie where one guy called a tissue a tissue, and someone else call one a kleenex. -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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TaunTaunHerder Registered: Oct '07	Date Posted: 4/9 11:32am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'? - Date Edited: 4/9 11:33am (1 edits total) Edited By: TaunTaunHerder
	Android From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act human. The term "droid" - invented by George Lucas in Star Wars (1977) but now used widely within science fiction - although originally an abbreviation of "android", has been used (by Lucas and others) to mean any robot, including distinctly non-humaniform machines like R2-D2 End of Wikipedia definition. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My thoughts; An android is a robot that is made to look and act human. A robot is a general term to refer to a machine like R2-D2 that is a robot that doesn't look or act human, although I have seen several short, fat humans who do resemble R2-D2, but they are human and don't communicate with whistles, beeps, and plaintive "screams" like R2-D2 does. R2-D2 and C-3PO are both robots. A truck, a van and an 18-wheeler are all vehicles, but they are all different kinds with different appearances, sizes and uses. If you make a movie with a car and a truck, but your script says "If they traced the vehicles here, they may know who sold them to us and that would lead them back........home!" I'm going to come on here and ask why your script didn't specify that one of the vehicles is a truck and the other is a car. Okay?
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JEDIGUNSHIP Title: C&G Game Host Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 4/9 3:26pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	It might have been a sequence that was shot early-on in the filming, and probably before the term "droid" was coined as a Star Wars term. -----signature----- Blue and yellow make a green lightsaber. How do you get red out of blue? Council Member in the New Jedi Trials/ Commander-in-Chief of the Rebel Alliance Addicted to Rock Band 2 and Proud of It! SWC Secret Rebel '09 Band Geek For Life!
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halibut Title: FF GSA & FF-UK RSA / Saga Mod Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 4/10 2:24am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	"droids" was used in all the draft scripts. "robots" was never used. -----signature----- They are not "songs", they are "tracks" or "cues" ROTJ - "It has a nice mix of muppets and patricide that you don't see very often" - Darthboba Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
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ILuvJarJar Registered: Oct '08	Date Posted: 4/10 7:10am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	voodoopuuduu posted: Maybe Mark Hamill mispoke the line (or changed it himself) and GL being under such pressure to get the film finished, said screw it, its fine, Im not doing another take ? -----signature----- ROTJ < ESB < ATOC < ANH < ROTS < TPM < TCW Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadrons: Fall 2009 Proud President of the Salacious Crumb fanclub Star Wars>>>>>>>>My Social Life It is well worth it.....
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GuNgAnFaN3090 Registered: Oct '08	Date Posted: 4/10 7:15am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	I'm gonna say it was an accident. Maybe it was something that they couldn't fix, they were to busy moving onto other things...? -----signature----- QueenArdnassak is my insane e-girlfriend. Sith Warrior in the "SWC: Acolytes of Darkness" Dark Side Points: 55
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T-R- Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 4/10 8:26pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	It isin the annotated screenplays as robot, so my guess is that's what Lucas wanted. I mean this is the same guy that had Anakin call a lightsaber a laser sword afterall. -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker: Chosen One Luke Skywalker: Son of the Suns Two Prophecies Two Destinies ONE SAGA
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MAJOR_NERD_314 Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 4/10 10:36pm Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	Using an interchangable word is no big deal. It's not like they called him a totally different word. I think if this was an accident and Lucas decided he didn't care, it was because he didn't figure anyone would notice, although, how everyone examines the story word by word, detail by detail, it was bound to be discovered eventually. -----signature----- Modulistic terror a vast sadistic feast the only way to exit IS GOING PIECE BY PIECE
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voodoopuuduu Title: Classic Trilogy Trivia Host Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 4/11 12:23am Subject: Why does luke call the droids 'robots'?
	FirBholg posted: My suspicion is that it is there just to establish, for those who have yet to figure it out, that the droids are, in fact, robots. That may be better than my answer. In early 1977, nobody knew what a droid meant. -----signature----- Winner CT Trivia Challenge 44, 54 Winner PT Trivia Challenge 10 , 13, 14, 17 Joint-Winner CT Challenge 49 and 50, PT Challange 18
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