Star Wars CONFIRMS The Truth about understanding R2-D2

i'm pretty sure that beep is down i sense count dooku is above us oh yes yes yes you're right beep is up what would the star wars universe be without astromectroids ever since 1977 r2d2 has been synonymous with star wars arguably second only to darth vader as a symbol for the franchise and yet throughout the entire series we've never actually even heard a single word that r2 has said or have we today we are taking a look at droid speak and whether or not the characters in universe can understand them can you understand what he's saying i'm not a protocol droid so for those of you who are long time fans of the channels you know that i am not usually a big fan of when characters in universe can understand astromech droids and maybe i'm just a little bit of a purist but primarily that's because if you look at the original six movies it is very clear that organic beings cannot understand astromech it is not a language that you can learn it's not something that you can pick up or cipher on your own you either need a protocol droid or a pocket translator as seen in the deleted scene from revenge of the sith now when i have said that offhand the big go-to argument is well i remember times when luke could understand r2 or even i remember times when anakin could understand r2 and to that i would like to point you to the specific scenes you're talking about see if you go back through a new hope it is very consistent that the only person who can understand r2d2 is c3po alone however the first time we see an organic being understand r2d2 is actually in the empire strikes back and it's when luke is going to dagobah to find master yoda r2 beeps something to luke and luke responds making it clear that he knows what r2d2 is saying and this has led many people to believe that luke has somehow learned how to understand r2d2 and there's a very good reason for assuming this r2 talks and luke acts like he knows what he's saying but if you pay attention every time r2 speaks before responding luke looks down at his console at where we can infer there is a translation of r2 on the screen and this can be concluded with absolute certainty because it's easy to miss but at the very beginning of the scene in empire strikes back it actually opens with showing us r2 speaking immediately following that is a shot of the console on the x-wing where r2's translation is coming up and that brings us to return of the jedi in return of the jedi where once again luke returns to dagobah and r2d2 speaks to luke and this time the camera makes an explicit effort to show us r2d2's translation on the console of the x-wing see it's not that luke has somehow learned how to understand r2 it's the x-wing knows how to understand r2 and the x-wing is translating r2 on the screen for luke to read which brings us to the phantom menace the second big example of a character being able to understand r2d2 and that is specifically when anakin does pod racing in zero g now this is pod racing and at a casual glance it would look like anakin is somehow able to understand astromech despite being the fact that he grew up in basically a junkyard go back qui-gon told me to stay in this cockpit so that's what i'm gonna do well actually the film makes it pretty clear by making a conscious decision to show us the console of the naboo starfighter while r2 is talking in fact i can tell you exactly what r2 is saying he is saying anakin turn the ship around and go back home right away this was put in there on purpose to show us that starfighters had the ability to translate droid speak so that organics could understand it this remains consistent throughout the entire prequel trilogy in fact one of my favorite deleted scenes at least for the laughs is this deleted scene where we see that the reason that anakin and obi-wan are able to understand r2d2 while on board the invisible hand at the opening of revenge of the sith is because the comlink has a built-in translator on board that has this little tiny screen that you can read the words as they are coming through at one point in the deleted scene the translator becomes broken and they are unable to understand what r2 is trying to tell them leading to shenanigans no text it's broken can you understand what he's saying i'm not a protocol droid so when did this change well we can thank a lot of ancillary materials such as video games like knights the old republic 2 and star wars the old republic and lots of other sources that all come away with the very common misconception that some organics are just special enough to know how to understand what beet brook means famously in knight's the old republic one one of the interesting things about t3m4 is that revan can't understand him despite the fact that he is proficient in pretty much every other language in the game t3 remains the only character in the game that can never be translated for the only other language that revan himself is unable to learn is the language of the tuscan raiders kotor 2 changed this showing us that the jedi exile was able to understand t3 however it's implied through the journal entries that the reason she's able to understand t3 is because she looted a translating vocabulator from the first hk unit that she encountered this unit is what allows metra zurich to understand all the various languages throughout the entirety of kotor 2. unlike revan who used a specific power in the force to basically gain an understanding of that person's language by ripping it out of their mind the first real change in the direction that people could understand astrak was actually in star wars the old republic where all of the language spoken by the astromech droids is actually translated in the subtitles this actually marks the only time on screen that droid speak is translated in the subtitles we never see that in any other star wars material furthermore this was compounded again by the force awakens where it made even less sense because rey is able to understand bb-8 immediately despite the fact that bb-8 is one a new model so therefore that language wouldn't have been around for very long two she grew up on a planet where droids would literally be disassembled for parts on site so i don't think she would have had much experience with droids speaking droid speak even if a human organic being was physically capable of learning what a droid was saying but no she's able to understand him absolutely perfectly and with no explanation whatsoever it's this sort of lack of attention to detail that feels a lot like fan fiction in the way that without paying super close attention to movies the average fan would think that when there's a connection between a droid and its owner it's much like the connection between a dog and its owner except for the fact that you can actually and literally understand what that droid is saying now of course you can very easily get the tone of what they're trying to say for instance i don't think there's any way to misinterpret this but that doesn't translate to an actual set of words more of just the emotion behind it so while you can get a sense that this astromech droid is uncomfortable or uneasy or excited you might not know the exact words that he's using to represent those emotions not without plugging him into a starship translator or having a protocol droid or a comlink that is able to translate what that droid is saying currently right now canon is a big fat mess regarding the question can organic beings understand astromech if you were to look at the original trilogy the answer is an absolute no there is no way that an organic being can learn how to speak astromech because you would imagine if anyone could or would have put that time and effort in it would have been anakin so why does he still need translators in revenge of the sith however if we're looking at some of the other materials that are out in canon such as the sequel trilogy or other materials that are in legends such as star wars the old republic you will get a different answer an answer that says yes that somehow there is an actual way that an organic being can discern one boop from another beep and know exactly what words those droids are trying to say this is a hot mess of a topic and i really hope we get some sort of clarity and consolidation that doesn't contradict the existing material in the original trilogy but i want to know what you guys think do you think that uh this breaks canon in a significant way i don't think it's too significant but it's just one of those little irritants for me that just kind of grinds my gears so i want to know if this bothers you as much as it does me let me know those thoughts down in the comments below because as always i want to know what you my friends have to say about our favorite galaxy far far away thank you so much for watching don't forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed or if you learned absolutely nothing new you can feel free to leave a 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Channel: Lore Star

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Keywords: star wars, star wars explained, star wars theory, star wars lore, luke skywalker, george lucas, darth vader, r2 d2, astromech droid, speak droid, rey bb8, x wing, anakin skywalker, lightsaber, jedi, sith, droid

Id: 9Rf-jB1XFO0

Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 12 2021