This angle worked in the Clone Wars with R2-D2 and C-3PO firstly because they’re beloved and established characters, and secondly because they proved their worth as more than just pieces of machinery but as characters with a heart and soul of their own.

[32] The 2015 young adult novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry introduces the droid PZ-4CO, to whom Leia Organa dictates her memoirs. [Rewatch] I'm struggling to understand why the decision was made to make Chopper such a dick. C1-10P a.k.a. Sabine Wren (voice) Steve Blum. They were in the Clone Wars, Hera fixed him, and apparently she didn’t do a very good job. I also really liked the design of the big cargo ship that Chopper ends up on. AP-5 was an Imperial inventory droid with a voice that was clearly inspired by Alan Rickman (Rest in Peace). You know, the stormtroopers more than usual just suck in this episode. Motorola's late-2009 Google Android-based cell phone is called the Droid. Considering the run Rebels has had, I’m actually impressed its taken this long for an episode to really be this bad. The story of his rescue by Hera during the Clone Wars is an interesting one that I'd be interested in exploring more, but it makes up such a small part of this episode. This was often used as comic relief as battle droids would comment on their tragic situation and even question orders that would get themselves or other battle droids killed.

Nearly everything Chopper supposedly does right in this episode is purely by accident or actually done by his new friend AP-5, and somehow Chopper gets the credit. The Call of The Light: An Essay on Kylo Ren. lolz) might have bee forgivable if he wasn’t so proud of that joke and repeated it moments later… I expect better humor from Zeb. Chopper can be kind of annoying in large doses, and the story with his new robot pal had a fair bit of schmaltz involved. Change ). I guess he’s here to stay, which I’m lukewarm about because while he was a fairly interesting character his voice got a little hard to listen to after a while.

He can also speak, although very briefly and stammering. New droid kinda looks like Vader without the helmet cap. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.

View fasterandmoreintense’s profile on Facebook, Rebels review: The Mystery of Chopper Base, Faster and More Intense 21: News and Darth Vader Issue 20, Faster and More Intense 20: News and Poe Dameron Issue 2, Faster and More Intense 19: News and Star Wars Issue 18, Faster and More Intense 18: News, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan and Anakin, Ahsoka’s Odyssey: The ambiguous fate of Ahsoka analyzed, Rebels review: Twilight of the Apprentice part 1 & 2, One Fan’s Top 5 Scenes from The Force Awakens, Twilight Company – Raw, Gritty, and Entertaining (non-spoiler review), Star Wars: Darth Vader #10 & 11 comic review. This line of phone has been expanded to include other Android-based phones released under Verizon, including the HTC Droid Eris, the HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, and Motorola Droid Pro. To be fair, “The Forgotten Droid” is mostly hurt by placement and timing (I mean, it’s still not very good). Due to their ubiquity, the terms 'B1' and 'battle droid' are used interchangeably; 'B2' models are also referred to as 'super' battle droids. [35] In the 2016 film Rogue One, K-2SO is an Imperial enforcer droid reprogrammed by the Rebel Alliance. AP-5 was a masculine Protocol Droid that was once an analyst protocol droid for the Republic. "Star Wars Rebels" The Forgotten Droid (TV Episode 2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The name "Omnidroid" was used with permission of Lucasfilm for the 2004 Pixar movie, The Incredibles.[9]. It is the thirty-fourth episode of the series overall. Seriously, this was a tough one to enjoy. Overall, there’s a better version of this story possible, one that really chomps down on the meat of the droid issues grazed, but the themes explored, and the passable kiddie adventure used to explore it, are enough to make this one solid, if not exactly Rebels at its best. Droids are performed using a variety of methods, including robotics, actors inside costumes (in one case, on stilts),[7] and computer animation. And our main antagonist, the imperial freighter captain is far too cartoonishly oafish and as AP-5 put it “useless.”. A protocol droid specializes in translation, etiquette and cultural customs, and is typically humanoid in appearance. [26], Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, HK-47 is a humanoid soldier robot, designed as a violent killer, which first appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Even the only nearly moving part where AP-5 sacrifices himself is instantly undercut when he’s repaired in the next scene. "[24] The droideka is a three-legged heavy infantry unit with twin blasters and the ability to generate a force shield and transform into a disk shape. The other element which really brings this down is the insufferable AP-5.

There’s a sense in which they are second class citizens, something that Star Wars never really engages with, (beyond one interesting set of episodes in Season 6 of Clone Wars where the life of a droid is juxtaposed with that of a clone trooper). AP-5 discovered Chopper during his inventory inspection. Some of the banter between AP-5 and Chopper later becomes enjoyable, but having him constantly parrot back Chopper’ dialogue for the sake of exposition got really grating. So let’s talk about Chopper himself, I appreciate what the writers have been going for with him, I just don’t think it’s worked consistently. After revealing a message from Cordova about a Jedi Holocron containing a list of Force-sensitive children, BD-1 joins Cal in his quest to find the Holocron and hopefully restore the Jedi Order, becoming a member of the, Obsolete-looking astromech droid with a cantankerous, "pranking" form of behavior aboard the rebel freighter, Protocol droid built by Anakin Skywalker who appears in all nine main, C1-series astromech droid that helps Ahsoka Tano when Order 66 is issued in. [11] 4-LOM is a protocol droid turned bounty hunter who responds to Darth Vader's call to capture the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Dann and the Star-Fall project. 7.2/10. And it comes through in the new droids story, a pathos-ridden tale of someone who was, like Chopper, a part of the Clone Wars, who is now saddened and even resigned at the prospect of his continued underappreciated menial labor. Rebels Recon: Inside "The Forgotten Droid" In this installment of Rebels Recon, StarWars.com goes inside the episode “The Forgotten Droid,” with cast and creator interviews and more. -The episode put me in a bad state of mind early on with its jokes, and they just don’t let up. [36], Last edited on 8 September 2020, at 21:11, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, United States Patent and Trademark Office, "TweetUp Buys, Renames Twidroid Twitter App", "17 Subtle Star Wars Easter Eggs And References In Other Movies – Page 16", "The new canon books to read before you see, "Dr Aphra, OOO And BT-1 Make Their Way Into The Wider, "The Empire, Kashyyyk, and Mr. Bones: Chuck Wendig Talks, "Back from the Drawing Board, Part 2: Repurposed, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Droid_(Star_Wars)&oldid=977439295#TC-14, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Torture droid working for Jabba the Hutt in, An RA-7 protocol droid from the Clone Wars, serving with the Galactic Republic as a navigator; later tasked with inventory duties by the Empire, before C1-10P/Chopper encounters him in the, Black plated BB-series astromech droid in the service of the First Order in, Small droid formerly in the possession of Jedi Master Eno Cordova, who encounters and befriends Cal Kestis on the planet Bogano. I came across this while messing around with the speech settings on OSX. Coined by special effects artist John Stears, the term is a clipped form of "android",[1] a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. It is nice to see Hera willing to sacrifice him because of his own selfishness and untrustworthiness, but given how she expects this behavior from him one has to question why she keeps him around or trusts him in the first place. I'm guessing the real one from the commercials has some effects on it. Star Wars Rebels: "The Forgotten Droid" Review. Especially when about one out of ten jokes are even chuckle worthy. The episode premiered on March 16, 2016 on Disney XD. However, Rafael Motamayor of SyFy Wire argues that the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series rehabilitated their image by giving them distinct personalities. Ah whatever), and this episode didn’t help. I WANT to like Chopper, I really do, the idea of a Star Wars version of Bender from Futurama is amusing, but Chopper just isn’t cutting it (chopping it? [Rewatch] I'm struggling to understand why the decision was made to make Chopper such a dick. AP-5 was a military analyst for the Republic and served during the Ryloth campaign, as did Chopper. An obvious nod to C-3 PO and R2-D2's relationship, but still pretty good. [10] The most notable example is C-3PO, introduced in Star Wars and featured in all sequels and prequels.

[12][13] TC-14 is a droid with feminine programming that appears in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999),[14] and ME-8D9 is an "ancient protocol droid of unknown manufacture" that resides and works as a translator at Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana in the 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Sarcasm aside, there are a number of difficulties involved in trying to tell a story where your main character is essentially incapable of delivering dialogue, and Rebels didn’t exactly overcome them with ease here.

The franchise, which began with the 1977 film Star Wars, features a variety of droids designed to perform specific functions.