Why R2D2 Never ACTUALLY Told Luke About Anakin

what's going on everyone hope you're all having a great day now throughout the prequels and the Clone Wars R2-D2 and Anakin went on a lot of adventures together but why did R2 never tell Luke about his father Anakin let's dive into it throughout the original trilogy R2 had many opportunities to tell Luke about his father especially when Obi-Wan was telling Luke about Anakin in a new hope so why did R2 never talk about Anakin with Luke at the end of Revenge of the Sith C3PO gets his memory wiped but R2 did not so Ru should still have his memories of Anakin throughout the original trilogy now in Legends Ru had what was called a owner's protection protocol system which prevented him from saying or doing anything that would hurt his master who is now Luke as well as it would not let R talk about Padme or Anakin to Luke or Leia for that matter that if R2 brought up Anakin and all the horrible things Anakin had done it might hurt Luke as we saw throughout A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back well until Vader revealed that he was Luke's father that Luke looked up to Anakin that Luke always wished he knew his father and that was part of the reason why Luke wanted to be a Jedi in the first place but with this protocol in place R2 was not able to stop Luke and Leia from sharing a kiss so thanks R2 so this also brings up the question of did R2 know that Anakin was Darth Vader and I would say the answer to that is no R2 had no way to connect Anakin with Darth Vader as he was not present when Anakin was called Vader R2 like Obi-Wan probably thought that Anakin was killed by obiwan on Mustafar as R2 saw the two start their fight and Obi-Wan was the only one who came back so it's safe to say that R2 thought that Anakin was dead because of this there was no way R2 could have known that Anakin was Vader So eventually when R2 found out what really happened to Anakin it was probably a shock for the Droid seeing what happened to his former Master it's interesting that throughout the entire Star Wars saga R2 was the Droid for both Anakin and Luke which is pretty cool to think about how he was a part of both their Journeys it's like r2's the Skywalker family Droid it's also worth noting that in Revenge of the Sith Anakin told R2 to stay with the ship as Anakin went to wipe out the separatist on Mustafar but in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke told R2 the exact same thing R2 didn't listen to Luke as he probably remembered that the last time he was told this it was the last interaction he ever had with Anakin which is a little sad to think about I wonder if R2 did tell Luke about his father how Luke would react would this draw Luke closer to the dark side or would Luke's opinion of his father change to where Luke might have not have saved Vader in the end who knows what would have happened but overall aru had no clue that Anakin became Darth Vader and probably thought he was killed on Mustafar by Obi-Wan and because of his programming he was not able to do anything to hurt his master nor tell Luke and leay about their parentage but anyway I hope you enjoyed and I'll catch you in the next one One Peace

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Length: 3min 8sec (188 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 21 2024