During ANH the two droids escape the blockade runner. When the fly off in the escape pod 3P0 says that the damage doesn't look as bad from his view. 1) he is seeing the Star Destorer and not the blockade runner. Does he think its he ship? If not why does he think the star destroyer should be damaged? 2) he is seeing the bottom, most the the firing it the top of the ships b
He is meaning the Tantive IV, not the Stardestroyer Devastator. Yes, the blockade runner is very small and hard to see on a TV screen, but it's the Tantive IV and he can see the damage.
She's right, it isn't damaged and it's the only part of the ship Threepio can see, so the Tantive IV seems to be more or less intact to him.
3PO is without question, a motor mouth, and an idiot. He is one of my least favorite characters, second only to Jar Jar Binks.
C-3PO had been inside the ship and was just a protocol droid walking down the corridor, so for all he knew the Tantive IV could have been attacked by the Star Destroyer and a squadron of TIE Fighters. The final blast on the Tantive IV that we see before the movie cuts from the outside to the inside almost looks catastrophic, with damage that could have exceeded just the very top of the ship and been visible to someone sailing below it. It was a legitimate comment, even though it was just thinking out loud.
I would say let's remember the context: 3PO is put in situations far above him that he do not quite understand. He said it many times. It is not his function anyway! He is a protocol droid and programmed for that purpose. If it was not for R2 he would have remained in the ship a become a propriety of the Empire. I do think that he means the Tantive IV but even if he doesn't then it may be that he knew not in what kind of ship he was and not exatcly why has he found himself there.
In the Episode I novel we find out Anakin put a lot of "self-awareness" into Threepio: "Maybe I shouldn't have given him quite so much- he's a worrier."
Your computer is nowhere near the level of development C-3PO is on. He is an amazing piece of technology. Your computer, as are all personal computers on this planet, is an average chunk. I'm not going to say whether or not C-3PO has a soul or not, but he has demonstrated himself to have feelings many times over. And he is not a unique case in the Star Wars universe - the technology in the SW universe is more advanced than ours will be for centuries and possibly more - they are at a level we cannot fathom (Watson and Siri - so not even close). C-3PO might not have a soul, or be "alive", but he is definitetly a concious, sentient, very intelligent creation. Have you watched anything from TRON?
Technology cannot create beings with feelings. So, therefore, c3po had no feelings, sentinent, conciousness, awareness, or soul.
Perhaps. And perhaps not. Machines (in the Star Wars universe, at least) can feel pain. They even get tortured! They also display intelligence and motivations, as well as morals and thought processes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience#Artificial_intelligence Many droids in Star Wars do demonstrate feelings. They receive input and respond to it. Read this: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Guri
Some are. Guri was programmed to be a cold-blooded, unfeeling killer, yet she went against this and decided to change out of her own free will. She developed morals, regret and feeling - and not because she was programmed to. Star Wars tech is advanced enough for this. They think.
