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[โ€“] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...how did I never relize that Kenobi has a droid's name?!

From way back in the books or something, I seem to recall a story arc that implied he was a clone, and not the original Ben Kenobi, hence the nickname. I think that idea got dropped from the main cannon, though.

IIRC Lucas explained at some point that "R2D2" was a film projectionist term, like "real two, disc two" or something like that.