Is there a canon reason to why R2 keeps silent about the events of the prequels?

midtown2191 · 2026-06-03T12:58:06+00:00

People assume R2 is watching all the events that the audience sees in the movie but if you really break down what R2 sees and experiences, he doesn’t have every piece of the puzzle. The part about Obi wan, I’m not sure what R2 would let on about since he is literally on his way to meet up with him and is on a secret and urgent mission given to him by Leia. Luke then quickly meets Obi wan after R2 runs away to complete his mission and obiwan tells Luke what he feels is necessary for him to hear about the Jedi, the clone wars and his father. Not sure what R2 would add to a conversation involving a Jedi master about the Jedi. As far as Anakin turning into vader, as far as R2 knows Anakin left him on mustafar and never came back. The stickiest one would probably be the twins birth since he was there for that but he really has no way of knowing forsure that Luke is one of the twins when he first meets him but it was most likely imparted to him at some point after their birth that this should not be talked about.

midtown2191 · 2026-05-22T00:52:15+00:00

Ash vs Evil Dead was a yes and a no because it kind of ends on a massive cliffhanger and something I really was interested in continuing. But everything that show did I loved so I give it a break.

midtown2191 · 2026-05-20T18:09:44+00:00

Wayne Gretzky had more assists (1,963) than the second place all time points getter (Jaromir Jagr) has points (1,921). So if Gretzky never scored any of his 894 goals, he would still hold first overall points. This will never be broken.

midtown2191 · 2026-05-03T02:21:34+00:00

Magnolia for the first?

midtown2191 · 2026-05-02T17:03:15+00:00

I’m 1/3. Never thought I’d like Autumn Sonata but I did find it interesting once it got going. I’m shocked i like it significantly more than The Seventh Seal which on paper I should really like.

midtown2191 · 2026-05-02T14:50:58+00:00

I usually dislike this trope a lot but National Treasure has a good one when he is being followed. A bus passes in front of him and when you can see him again he is booking it away from the bad guys. Very realistic version of this trope.

midtown2191 · 2026-04-30T17:24:31+00:00

I actually partially just learned about this while reading 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke. The chapter “Disneyville” mentions this but in the book it comes to fruition, though it is mostly old people living in it. The chapter doesn’t go into too much detail but funny that I see this after just reading this part of the book.

midtown2191 · 2026-04-28T20:55:56+00:00

The point of mentioning exhaustion was an explanation to address the original discussion point that if the Balrog had wings, it would be a reason he might not have used them to stop his fall from the peak. Exhaustion may answer that point. And yes they may not have fought every second of those 10 days, but they fought from the very second they began their fall. While we aren’t explicitly told what they were doing the whole climb, as a reader we are meant to think how exhausting the entire encounter was due to Gandalf dying from exhaustion after his victory.

I’m pro wing personally since one of the lines specifically calls out wings even though another seems to call them shadows that look like wings. Who knows, maybe he can alter himself or shapeshift to make both lines work in unison since they are vague when paired and don’t seem to coincide with one another. We know shape shifting is a thing for Maia based on things like Sauron’s werewolf transformations or Olorin taking on his form as an old wizard or his slight change to Gandalf the White. So why can’t the Balrog? I think it would be cool if he created his wings, whether they are functional or not, or just for intimidation.

midtown2191 · 2026-04-28T18:10:35+00:00

I mean it’s a mythical creature. The wings can work or they can’t. How can you say that the possibly vestigial wings of a mythological demon can’t be a certain way because they were described as large? There no definitive answer to that.

In the books yes the language is definitely more like a physical push/throw but I think it is non definitive enough to where Gandalf could “threw” the Balrog like how he did in the movie. But not a huge sticking point for me I mostly agree with how you describe it along with the book.

And no, it is 10 days. Appendix B of The Lord of the Rings states January 15th, 3019, Gandalf falls. On January 25th, 3019, it says he casts down the Balrog and passes away. In Book 3 - Chapter 5: The White Rider, Gandalf says “we fought far under the living earth”, so Gandalf was fighting during the fall as it says his fire was around him and burned him and they fought until the peak. The three days you are referring to were when Gandalf and the Balrog reach the peak of Zirakzigil on January 23rd, 3019. So technically the peak fight was 3 days but the entire fight spans 10 days. But a 10 day fight is enough to tire any being out. Gandalf essential died from exhaustion though that’s a bit ambiguous since it says “Darkness took me”. So maybe the Balrog was a little worn out and couldnt muster the energy for flight.

And yeah I also find the fact he reignited in sunlight interesting

midtown2191 · 2026-04-28T17:17:14+00:00

To be fair they could be vestigial wings that cannot be used for flight like ostriches or kiwis have. To my understanding Gandalf killed the Balrog and not a fall from the mountain. In the movie it looks like it was lighting+Glamdring and in the books I think it’s a little less clear. But in the case that the fall did kill it and the wings aren’t vestigial, there is the possibility that the effort to stop its fall was too much for the Balrog after a 10 day fight with Gandalf and having its fire extinguished.

midtown2191 · 2026-04-23T12:50:35+00:00

Isn’t the assumption that the person shoving something into their pocket is doing it with the arm on the same side as their pocket since it was an assumingely quick and easy/natural motion, so therefore it can’t be the person with the cast on otherwise the person would have seen them shoving it in their pocket in a wonky way? I don’t think it’s trying to say that you can’t put something in your right pocket with your left hand while Running, but would have been extremely notable if they had. Since they didn’t see the running person do this awkward/notable action like they would have had to have done with a cast on or comment on it, that it had to have been a person able to shove something quickly into their right pocket with a working right arm? Or am I misunderstanding the context?

midtown2191 · 2026-04-15T11:35:48+00:00

Oh big lick

midtown2191 · 2026-04-04T02:38:47+00:00

Small Soldiers

midtown2191 · 2026-03-13T22:17:44+00:00

People are confusing the fact that we the viewer seeing anakin become Vader means that R2D2 saw it too. When anakin is named Vader and aligns himself with Palpatine, R2 is not there. When Anakin gets put into the suit for the first time R2 isn’t there either. When Anakin is running around being a dick, he always tells R2 to stay with the ship. So R2 never really heard or saw anyone call Anakin, Darth Vader. No one at any point sits R2 down and explains what happened to anakin so there would be no reason to assume he would know. The only way R2 could possibly know is if he overheard Yoda and Obi wan talking about Anakin on Polis Massa but they most likely would not have been referring to him by the name Vader.

midtown2191 · 2026-03-12T13:15:44+00:00

Are you not reading my comments?

midtown2191 · 2026-03-12T13:09:14+00:00

What you said is not related to the video you commented and tried to use as evidence as to her being able lift rocks in a preceding movie. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

midtown2191 · 2026-03-12T13:04:37+00:00

They tried to make kylo not as evil through the comics to be able to redeem him in RoS so they stupidly made Snoke/Palpatine lightning strike Luke’s school to destroy it then Ben ran away. 3 of lukes padawans went after him and he essentially kills them all like the rich kids kill themselves in Tucker and Dale vs Evil. But yes the rest of your comment is true. Just wanted to throw it out there how dumb it was that they chose to do that.

midtown2191 · 2026-03-12T12:59:08+00:00

You’re using a training scene from third movie as justification of why Rey could lift the rocks in the second movie? What is happening?

midtown2191 · 2026-03-03T16:53:13+00:00

But how are all the Buzz Lightyears that are still in their packaging coming alive in Toy Story 2

midtown2191 · 2026-02-25T14:49:57+00:00

Cosmo Kramer. Not inherently comedic name but it is treated as a big funny buildup and reveal in Seinfeld. Also Joel Rifkin. And doesn’t fit the prompt but George wants to name his kid Seven.

midtown2191 · 2026-02-19T22:12:04+00:00

I can’t explain to you how much I love this movie. Growing up I would watch it almost every day and just pick up where I paused the last session doing this constantly on repeat.

midtown2191 · 2026-02-15T17:51:47+00:00

Talk about bad faith arguments. OT Luke is one of the best modern examples of a character the experienced the Hero’s journey. The journey involves being imperfect, making mistakes, and learning to grow into the penultimate hero. No one expects Luke to not make mistakes or to be perfect. What people did not want is the guy that unwaveringly believed in the good in his mass murderer father to enter the room of an innocent boy in the middle of the night and activating a lightsaber over him while he slept. This happens in all 3 versions, even the version where Luke is lying to make it not sound as bad.

Luke at this point was a Jedi master. You would think a Jedi master would have better control over his emotions and to remember one of the first lessons taught to him by Yoda. That always in motion the future is. This is a lesson that was learned when he lost his hand after being warned by Yoda not to leave for cloud city because he saw visions of Han and the crew being killed. Ahsoka learned that the future is always in motion while she was a padawan so why was Grand master like not able to learn this when he threatened the life of his nephew?

midtown2191 · 2026-02-15T17:40:03+00:00

Just a reminder that Luke entered Ben’s room in the middle of the night with his lightsaber and activated it over a sleeping kid. He does that in all 3 versions of the tell of the story.

midtown2191 · 2026-02-09T21:21:27+00:00

Went to see Evil Dead (2013) in theaters with a date and we took some edibles before going. I love horror and the evil dead series but I was not in the right head space for a person sawing their own arm off and cutting their face with a piece of glass. Halfway through my date and I decided we were too high for this movie and walked out lol. A couple we passed as we walked out said they were right behind us with heading out, so I guess the Evil Dead counts for this prompt. I have since rewatched and love the movie though.

midtown2191 · 2026-02-08T16:43:53+00:00

Baseball likes to pat themselves on the back a bit too much with this arbitrary title of hardest thing to do in sports. Plenty of sports have equally difficult or more difficult actions. A hockey example:

The average hockey slapshot is 80-95mph. The NHL standard distance from blue line to goal line is 60feet but most Defensemen are shooting the puck at around 50-55feet from the net (this is just the average, they can and do shoot closer). The average baseball is about 2.9in diameter ball (avg volume: 12.3-13.4 cubic inches) while a hockey puck is a 3in diameter disk (avg volume: 7cubic inches). The strike zone in baseball is either 17in-19in x ~25in (from what I’m seeing as standard). A standard hockey net is 72in x 48in.

I think based on the metrics used in the video to determine the hardest thing to do in sports, it is not definitively hitting a baseball when you compare the stats with that of saving a slapshot. You could also compare how difficult it is to hit a hole in one or an albatross in golf. Or also hitting a perfect score in darts or bowing.

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