I'm sure all R2 units just of the production line are identical. I can't see how Yoda could recognize it

I agree plus besides I don’t remember yoda having any full on interaction in the prequel movies but I could be wrong

Well you know our fellow dweeb kove to stretch 😅

Yeah, it seemed kind of obvious to me, given that no one ever bothered to change their names. Vader fights Obi Wan, who is running around with this force-sensitive kid, whom Vader later learns is named Skywalker and pilots an X-Wing to destroy the death star. Not too hard to put those pieces together. Doesn't need to happen on screen.

Vader knew he had a son, because the Emperor told him about the "son of Skywalker" in Empire. Remember when the Emperor via hologram summoned Vader about a great disturbance in the force. That disturbance was Luke.

@@stevegallo8483 My broader point was that I don't think he even needed that from the Emperor at that point. IIRC, Vader didn't display any surprise about the "son of Skywalker." It was more like, "Yes, mmhmm. Yup. Got it, boss." If he had no idea at that point that he had a son, I would have expected a serious head fake, a "What" ... something. It was pretty easy for Vader to piece it all together without needing on-screen exposition. The Emperor pointing it out fits with that logic already. Perhaps he told him previously (off-screen) in more detail, but it hardly matters. :)

Maybe the Skywalker last name was like Smith in the Star Wars universe.

Wrong. Boba Fett told him all he found was "just a name, Skywalker"

Forget gold, that's platinum.

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Your dumn

Oh I like that.

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That's always been my take on it.

I bet Yoda didn't remember R2 because he didn't interact with them much. After all, R2 was Anakin's droid.

Even if he didn't recognize him, it would make sense, astromechs are stupidly common, hell in episode 1 alone we see at least 2 dozen total, r2d2 was an item to yoda, no different then a pair of clothes

@@calebbarnhouse496 I concur, people act as if R2-D2 is the only Druid in the universe with that paint scheme

It's not bad writing; it's marketing. At least with the sequel trilogy

@@Phenix19 Marketing or not, from a writer's viewpoint, it's still bad writing.

@@adorkability It all goes back to EP 3 where Palpatine talks about his former master and urging anakin to help him discover the secret to immortality and clonening was already introduced in EP2 so he used what his master taught him which was how to create life and cloneing technology. Essence transfer is new but really makes sense as a darkside power

@@eliezerrodriguez5863 I understand that. It's still bad writing. There are literally no hints or clues in the other two films of the trilogy that Palpatine was going to return. It's just sprung on the viewer in the opening crawl of the third film.

@@adorkability that’s cause they were made by 2 different directors and the first director got removed from episode 8 while still doing post production on episode 7 then got brought back in to do episode 9 after the fan backlash to episode 8 not answering any of the questions raised in episode 7 so he had to marry his ideas from episode 7 with episode 8 ideas in episode 9 that’s why I’d feels like a mix of ideas

It also helps a lot that Luke is also called Skywalker.

@@white-dragon4424 good point. How to hide someone who is wanted? Keep their original name and addressz

@@digitaal_boog, you must have missed the comic where they explained that Skywalker is as common in the Star wars universe as Smith is in ours 😂

@@digitaal_boog his family was dead and he was from tatween the most dirty place in the galaxy, also meeting a pilot called LUKE SKYWALKER from tatween, strong in the force, who was traveling with Obi wan kenobi

Maybe because Emperor Palpatine told him

Because the buildup and foreshadowing was in the novels, because Disney integrated the Canon across all medis

Yeah, I was about to say the same. If anything, I’d like to know how Palps found out.

No. Vader already knew. Pay attention. He knew the rebels were on Hoth, because he sensed Luke there as soon as he turned his attention that way.

@@TheWorldMemeDatabase it's in a vision at the sith shrine in coruscant basically from the empire strikes back from a certain point of view book

Nah it was the Chimp eyed lady

no he doesnt

Yes I’m not the only one

He mentions Luke by his last name during the Echo Base siege.

You're an idiot. Vader already knew by this time. The probes were sent out to find Luke and the Rebel base. That's why Vader knew the transmission from Hoth was where the rebels were hiding, because he sensed his son there.

@@toddnolastname4485 Him sensing a force user doesn't mean he's sensing his son. He had no clue he was his son during the battle of hoth :)

Insane Yoda goes from himself talking only to for so long, he does! Rum Red! Rum Red!

It wasn't the line orginally. It's another mistake by Lucas tinkering.

@@dmichael1172 most Star Wars fans probably haven’t seen an original cut of the trilogy unless they were old enough to have seen them in theaters cause with advances in technology came the meddling of Lucas using the new technology even going as far as changing the actor for anikin’s force ghost in return of the Jedi from Sebastian Shaw to Hayden Christensen to better match the prequel trilogy

@@kevin10001 probably but I have a copy of each of the original cut of orginal trilogy. So I show that to anyone who's never seen it b4 i show special editions. That's the one good thing of have hard copies of movies.

@@kevin10001 Forgot to add when my daughters want to see it they always ask for the original cut and they are only 16 and 13.

Came here to mention this. That book covers most of the events between Empire and Return.

Yes!

Yeah, the actual answer to those mysteries is really just "bad writing." But that wouldn't be a very interesting video.

@@frigginjerk it’s more than just bad writing. It’s the change of directors for each movie. The Disney executives looking at stats for profits. Producers with their own agendas. Etc..

@@ladymecha8718 True, none of that helped. Calling it just bad writing doesn't give credit to the many other factors that deserve blame.

@@frigginjerk Though lets not detract from the fact of how bad the writing actually was. I'll give you an example. I felt more for the Bomber pilot girl in episode 8 than I did for most of the rest of the cast.

Bruh, he was saved by the fans 🤣😂🤣

he did. which is why he worded his denial so evasively.

@@kenbrown2808 ok I'll buy that Ken. :)

Sounds logical to me Sir

My headcanon was always that he was pretending not to know r2 since he didn’t want Luke to find out about him

@@tonydub98 he remembered what happened when they told Anakin too much too fast.

Honestly. The saber sure, but the hand? Why does anyone care?

Disney Star Wars plays out like bad fan fiction, which it basically is.

No, the EU was a much bigger mess that what we have got now. There have been great stories but there also have been very weak stories and many contradictions. Disney did the right thing by declaring the whole EU not canon. The many problem with the sequel trilogy is that they did not have a complete story for all three movies and every director could do what he wanted. It is interesting that there is hardly any new material for the sequel era. They know that fans hate it, so they concentrate on those eras fans love. Before you say anything about how great the EU was, please remember that there was no creative control in the early years. The Thrawn-trilogy was written at the same time as the Dark Empire-trilogy but the writers of both trilogies did not communicate with each other and thus both trilogies contradict eachother. And this is just one example from the early years. Although they tried to fix the mistakes they've made, they did not succeed and the mess got bigger and bigger. And the reason is quite simple: they considered every novel and every comic and every computer game canon, even if they contradict each other. How many stories about the Deathstar plan did the EU have? It was possible to save the EU. They simply had to declare which part of it is canon and which is not. But at the time The Clone Wars was broadcast, because with this show every single novel or comics taking place during the clone wars suddenly was not canon anymore. That's the reason that removing the EU from Star Wars canon was a very good thing, because they could start with a blank slate which allowed much more creative freedom and new stories to tell.

"from a certain point of view"

Palpatine never said anything about Anakin's children, just his wife

@@TheKyrix82 yes but he told Anakin that Padme had died on Mustafar where he had her in a chokehold and the emperor convinced Anakin that he had killed her then which she was also pregnant. So it’s pretty obvious that the babies had died too so no surprise Vader came to that conclusion.

@@michellereyna8671 He never said she died on Mustafar. Just that in his rage, he killed her. It's entirely possible that she died from some internal injuries off planet, as Vader clearly has no memory of what Anamin did to Padme. But yes, it does make sense that he thought his child was dead

@@TheKyrix82 okay maybe he didn’t outright say Mustafar, but Vader did know that he had her in a chokehold and that he didn’t kill her because he says smth along the lines of “she’s alive, I felt it” meaning he knew he didn’t choke her long enough to actually kill her.

What happened to Luke's green lightsaber? Was it burried underneath the ruins of the collapsed jedi temple?

It's simple. They hired hack who made things up as he went along, on the hope that somebody else would figure out a way to get it to make sense later.

@@frigginjerk right? Like trying to explain why the light saber duel on the Death Star was so lame compared to the one on Mustafar?

A good question, for another time. 🙄

I love the originals but to be fair, they are also pretty bad writing. Needlessly follow a narrow trench for 10 minutes despite the whole length being open to space? Darth Vader being Luke's father AND Leia being retconned into his sister after they made out? Ewoks defeating an entire legion of the Empire's best troops? "What I told you was the truth from a certain point of view"?!?!

@@Firebirdwinters here's the problem, one, death star trench was the best approach due to the lack of guns in it, the deathstar had a stupid amount of firepower, while the trench means low maneuverability, it also means there's not hundreds of guns firing on your approach, darth vader being lukes dad and Leia's dad isn't some ridiculous retcon or anything, he was a powerful force user, and so his children had connections with the force, as for making out, she kissed him one time to piss han off, and Luke acted smug about it that was the kiss, nothing more, and ewoks didn't defeat a legion of the best stormtroopers, they actually got slaughtered, but the 5 minutes they had in there sneak attack was devastating, which for things the suze if an ewok with better physical strength then most non wookies, and it makes plenty of sense

And was the most foul-mouthed character in the whole franchise. They bleeped every word he said in the movies. Sorry. I couldn't resist the chance for that dad-joke.

Holy crap! R2 is the real sith lord. He was pulling everyones strings, including jar jar and palps. .........that also explains why he chose to wake up when he did. He wasnt asleep/powered down....he was waiting.

R2 and 3PO had their memories erased at the end of Episode III, so they don’t remember any those things.

@@jahmd8377 nope, 3po did, but not r2. (Eh, ok, guess im coming from legends, but not sure whether that part is still canon.)

@@jahmd8377 No, only C-3PO had his memory erased. Bail says "Have the protocol droids mind wiped", R2 still has all his memories.

Vader knew who Luke was at the start of the film, when he told Ozzel to make for the Hoth system.

Wow, there's a bunch of morons reading who subscribe to this channel. Vader already knows, dumbass.

@@toddnolastname4485 The video is "10 Star Wars Mysteries Explained Outside the Films". That "mystery" was literally explained in the movie, dumbass. Edit: I've seen your arguments on other comments and they really suck lmao. Vader sent out the probe droid to find out where the Rebel base is, not only to find Luke. And when he got to Hoth he sensed another Force user which is something that happens with other Force users in other media. He didn't sense his son, he sensed a Jedi. But keep trying to defend the garbage comics bud.

its not luke's its ANAKIN's lightsaber

If you go by the Extended Universe logic the hand got lodged in one of the intake vents for the shaft where Vader retrieved it and stored it on his personal vault thing on some backwater planet. You find this out in the Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy of books.

The title of the videos states they were explained outside of the films. The vast majority of people will never read the comics or play some of the games so for the majority of people nobody knew about his hand on top of the fact that like you said the old EU was discarded anyway

Or the lawn mower your neighbor finally returned to you after it stopped working.

IIRC during the "yoda arc" of season 6 of TCW, R2 was the astromech in his ship; a little plot convenience to add a second major character to the story. What about when Luke and Obi Wan first meet in ANH? why didn't R2 blab about Obi Wan to Luke?

Yeah but that would have made sense though. 🤷‍♂️

It’s dumb, and it shouldn’t have been what they went with for the movie, but it is absolutely consistent with Palpatine and entirely plausible for Star Wars. Rey being his daughter/granddaughter is essentially the same thing he did with Anakin. If The Rise of Skywalker had been released as a noncanon book instead, fans would have been going crazy and telling everyone to read it.

Watch the original Clone Wars cartoons.Not the series.