ST New Droid - BB-8

The most impressive thing about BB8 was how much emotion it managed to convey.

 

No.

 

Well, it turns out you're wrong... other people DID think that. I spoke to one today as a matter of fact.

 

So people actually thought that a robot that is marketed towards kids was flipping somebody else the bird in this movie?

 

I love BB8. Only thing I hated was the thumbs up to Finn. Too Pixar for me.

 

But if he was flipping him off, would you have loved it?

 

YES!

 

If this is better merged into another thread, please do so, but I felt the need to finally state this clearly:

BB-8 is Poe Dameron's droid, not Rey's!

There are many official Star Wars toys out there where BB-8 is being sold in with Rey, which creates a misleading and false piece of information about the story. And worse yet, official movie descriptions of The Force Awakens present phrases like "A scavenger and her droid..."

Rey only spent time alongside BB-8 because BB-8 was told to flee by his owner until he would come back for him, and Rey just happened to come across it. It was never her droid and she never wanted it to be; she was trying to get it back to the Resistance.

Why is this being so drastically mis-presented?

Mav Edit: Thread Merge

 

Because even though bb 8 belongs to Poe It spent most of it's movie time with Rey. So it's easier to market BB8 with her.

 

The Milli Falcon agrees with MilesEdgeworth that it's all a marketing gimmick... BB-8 only ends up with his master, Poe Dameron, at the ending of TFA, but indeed spent most of his time with Rey and Finn, trying to evade capture by the First Order and their allies!

 

Of course it's Poe's, but people watching the film will identify that it's been with Rey and Finn so from a marketing sense it's easier to put it in with them. Also Poe isn't as big a character as the others. All about the money.

 

Because the lonely scavenger girl and her trusty droid companion is a great visual image and much more marketable than "Fighter pilot and his onboard mechanic", to exaggerate a little.

 

This is interesting. Unlike the PT and OT, where the main "star" droids were seen as something akin to intelligent toasters (sorry R2), with their own personalities, but ultimately bound to be brought, traded and dismantled as human and alien needs deigned, I actually go the impression that BB-8 was Rey and Poe's EQUAL ... Rey rescues him from Teebo with the reason being that "(Teebo) respects no-one" ... implying to be anyway, that BB-8 is a sentient, non-carbon based non-organic being in his own right. Ditto for the 'spy jedi droid" or whatever, in Maz's place.

Threepio was still a bumbling comic-relief servant in comparison...

So to answer the question:

BB-8 "belongs" to nobody. He is his own droid, who happens to be a good friend and colleague of Poe and a new friend of Rey.

Poe/BB-8 shipping may commence

 

No master? But I've never seen such disloyalty in a droid before...

 

bb8 seemed to have a huge " crush " on Poe. I love how bb8 was rushing to see him. So cute. I agree that bb8 is associated with rey for the toys because of the begining of the movie and it's the only reason. Because at the end bb8 is a lot with Finn too. By the way, bb8 told poe that Finn saved him and completed poe's mission. bb8 didn't even mention Rey to Poe, to the point that Finn had to say, he didn't do it alone to Poe.

Next move BB8 will be more with Poe and Finn,so bb8 should be with their figurines.

 

Speaking of BB-8-Rey-Poe, who do you think she'll be with in the next film or so? It'd be great to see more of Poe and BB-8 interaction without the threat of the First Order looming, but equally so with BB-8 and Rey developing more of their new friendship from TFA.

Anyways, I'm supporting for more interaction with BB-8 and Finn. Their relationship is underrated, progressing from how she thought Finn stole Poe's jacket to lying for him to Rey.

 

Since Rey is gone with R2 and chewie, she 'll be mostly with them. But bb8 will be with Poe and Finn. I really liked how bb8 and Finn 's relationship developped. Fist BB8 didn't like him at all; She was the only one to get cautions et suspicous at him . Then she started to trust him to complimented him to Poe at the end.. I love how she comes to try to help Finn taking care of chewie,but back off because of chewie not being nice.

So my guess is that bb8 will be with Poe and Finn mostly in the next movie.

 

It gets worse. Not only does the toy packaging give BB-8 to Rey, it packs Poe with TR-8R.

Poe: "Hey! Hey! Yeah, you! Not only do you give my droid to some girl I've never met, you put me with this—"

TR-8R: "Traitor!"

Poe: "That is all he ever says! You need to fix this. We need a —"

TR-8R: "Traitor!"

Poe: Was I talking to you? I just want my DROID!

This deal keeps getting worse all the time.

 

Having machines, like the droids, that are reasonably compassionate and a man like Vader who becomes a machine and loses his compassion was a theme that interested me. - George Lucas - Annotated Screenplays

Much like HAL in 2001.

 

^ This http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203288.The_Ship_Who_Sang made a very memorable impression on me as a kid.... BB-8 was surprisingly human..

 

Just double-checked.....Rey did not take BB8 with her when she goes to Luke at the end of TFA. Just R2.

 

Perhaps because it's a tradition that Star Wars toys are labelled inaccurately, here are some examples from the OT days:

R5-D4 - Somebody at Kenner apparently misread a "2" for a "5" because the buckethead cousin of Artoo-Detoo was clearly identified by Luke and Threepio as an "R2 unit" (which is also what Red Leader called his "R5" in a scene deleted from the film)

Walrus Man - was the title card for the alien butt- or spiderface character who started the fight with Luke ("Ponda Baba") but in fact "Walrus Man" was the cantina and Mos Eisley alien dressed in that red Imperial uniform (probably Imperial Merchant Service)

Zuckuss & 4-LOM - had their names originally swapped on the ESB Kenner action figure title cards. This mistake was later rectified.

Rebel Trooper - is still the name for Leia's Royal Alderaanian Guard (according to the 1977 Lucas Notes), although it could be argued that it's actually the uniform of the Imperial Senate Guard by the time of ANH and members of Leia's guard are simply wearing it.

 

#WheresPoesBB8

 

Poe likes giving his stuff away. The jacket, the droid...

 

I am so upset you didn't start your reply with: