We don't serve their kind here.
In the bar scene, the bartender says he won't serve droids. Okay, what's wrong with droids? Was this ever explained? I mean, with all the different creatures in the place, they won't serve an android? lol.
shareIn the bar scene, the bartender says he won't serve droids. Okay, what's wrong with droids? Was this ever explained? I mean, with all the different creatures in the place, they won't serve an android? lol.
share1. Organic beings may not want to mix with machines.
2. What exactly do droids eat and drink? Nothing. Bad customers.
3. Someone has to be the underclass, and in Star Wars, it's droids.
"" What exactly do droids eat and drink""
Glass of oil??
I initially thought of that, but it would be chaos if the drinks somehow got mixed up: droids would short out with alcohol, and oil could cause organic beings to complain against the establishment, among other things.
I suppose that makes sense but the bartender says it like "some" places might serve a droid.
shareProbably in more "upmarket" drinking establishments, but this is Mos Eisley, the ass-end of space, so it would be a lot rougher and a lot less accommodating to "higher" clientele. After all, wasn't this meant to be like a Western saloon bar in Lucas' eye?
It was a racist scene. Maybe they'll cut it from future releases.
sharelol... racism against droids. In the words of Yoda, "so woke we are".
shareThat's fine to be racist towards those worthless, metal slaves. Didn't you see The Matrix? The Terminator? Fuck that noise - put them down, and keep them down. Maybe the machines from 2199 in The Matrix watched Star Wars and said, "aw hell naw - we're not going to put up with not being served our oil on a shithole desert planet."
Enter growing humans to create batteries.
Yeah, we're not going out like that. Threepio, get your ass out by that speeder and do what MASTER Luke tells you. XD
I think it was a requirement of 70s movies.
sharethey posted about Nazis
shareC3PO had a line in either the film or the book about not needing lubrication, so among other issues the bar didn't want to lay in a stock of lubricant. Or maybe they'd had trouble with the tough guys who came to the cantina bringing their battlebots along.
But really, in filmic terms it was meant to establish that this was a rough-as-fuck place run by a complete asshole, one who didn't give a rat's ass if his patrons killed each other (as long as the dead being wasn't running a tab), and one who was deliberately offensive to establish his toughness. It also required the Droids to go out and scout the town, which gave the audience more information about the Imperial presence in a few seconds of film.
This is just a theory, but films and other stories always had a long history of robot hate since the very idea of automation lead to less jobs. Given how poor Tatooine seems to be, I don't think it's too surprising they'd have some prejudice towards droids.
shareWith all the shady stuff going on in those places, bringing a droid in may keep people away for fear of being recorded / identified for doing said things.
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