• andrewth09@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve never read a Star Wars book but this makes me unreasonably unset upset.

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      3 months ago

      I used to have a copy of the original novelization of ANH I could post a picture of that had it but I have no idea what happened to it.

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      3 months ago

      If you ever decide to try it don’t bother with any of them that came out after Disney took over. Almost all of them are trash.

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        3 months ago

        Because the only rational reason to spell it Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio is if they got paid by the word and they wanted to bolster their paycheck? The alternative that they somehow thought this was a good idea is even worse.

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          3 months ago

          I’m pretty sure it was so they would look more like real names, because Star Wars treated robots (droids) like actual characters which was rare at the time.