Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also he reads what R2 says via a screen in his X wing in ESB. I don’t think he understands binary until at least RotJ. Maybe he got bored in mechanical hand physical therapy and also studied droidspeak.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I doubt he got bored. That mechanical hand probably felt like someone else’s until the nerves fully adjusted.

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    • catharso@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Like Skywanker

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      • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Use the force, Luke

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      • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lube Skywanker

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    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I bet it has a few vibrate modes

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• devdoggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He understands him perfectly in ESB.

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  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it’s implied that having spent enough time with R2, he eventually picks it up. I know that according to the lore, all X-wings are equipped with a translator, so that pilots can understand their astromechs. Given enough time flying together, it makes sense that Luke would need the translator less and less.

    Not to mention it just helps move the story along, considering all the scenes they spend alone together in ESB, without C3PO. In a New Hope, C3PO is always around to translate when R2 has something to say.

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    • devdoggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, I guess that clears up my shower thought. Thanks!

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Usually through the text translation on the X-Wing screen. Once on Dagobah, he’s picking up the same context clues in tone that the audience is.

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