• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    I don’t think he understood binary during a New Hope. C3PO has to translate for R2 when they first meet.

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      13 hours 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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        4 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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        13 hours 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.