Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
Him and his counterpart being in the prequels at all was definitely pointless and Lucas's fault at any rate.
Which made Obi-Wan Kenobi a droidist on top of a liar and necessited 3Po had his mind wiped for no reason.
On the other hand it does mean that R2-D2 is seemingly from Naboo and close to the Padme who was close to Palpatine meaning that we can imagine:
1: R2-D2 was Palpatine's spy all along and that everything that he was a part of was therefore part of Palpatine's machinations.
2: The entire series is merely the battle between two rivals extending their planarary conflict to a galactic stage, Palpatine and R2-D2 (in one of the RPG books they were both the joint smartest characters listed).

... droidist ...
Well he did say he never owned a droid ... which is true, he just didn't mention that he knew who did and they frequently hung around together.

But I think this is just another little bit where every Star Wars movie after the first just tries to harm it a little bit ... they know they can't equal it so they try to drag it down.