#that poor little droid must have been in a constant state of deja vu

[cozy-the-overlord]

Clone Wars makes this even funnier because in Slaves of the Republic there’s a scene that pays homage to the escape from Jabba scene (Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka all hide their lightsabers in R2 and there’s a whole setup where Anakin mirrors Luke, Obi-Wan mirrors Han, Ahsoka mirrors Leia, and Rex mirrors Lando) except it fails so miserably. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong and they all get violently captured and separated and it takes the whole next episode to escape.

So I get such a kick out of the idea of R2 being approached by Luke with this plan that almost exactly mirrors this absolute disaster from like twenty five years earlier, and just kind of shrugging like “eh can’t get much worse than last time” and going along with it.

Or even better, R2 being the one to suggest it, going to Luke like “hey so your dad was in a semi similar situation back in the day and tried out this crazy nonsensical plan that failed in literally every possible way, but I still think it has potential worth revisiting because it would have looked so cool if it worked” and Luke was just like “AWESOME LETS DO IT”