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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bwgwl" data-source="post: 201065" data-attributes="member: 3876">firstly, re: characters not recognizing the droids again in the original trilogy:both R2s and 3POs are common types of droids. there are literally millions of them in the galaxy. why would anyone assume that one they are seeing now is the same one they saw 30 years ago?someone else here made a good analogy (i can't remember who or what thread it was on): if you used to own a certain type of car (color/model/whatever), when you see one on the road, you don't immediately think, "hey, there's my old car!" you just think, "i used to have a car like that."secondly, re: R2 knowing where to find ben kenobi: i always assumed that Leia knew where to find ben (she was traveling to tatooine to meet him, after all), and programmed R2 with the location.</blockquote>