L3 is bae
She was the best character in the Star Wars universe.
shareThe most spineless droid of all time.
Supposedly fought for droid freedom but when they got blown to smitherines chose to become part of a computer system, having to perform mundane calculations for the rest of it's days (as a slave to Han Solo) instead of dying for what they apparently believed in.
Then noone ever mentions it again, Lando doesn't even mention the droid in later films.
Classic.
She didn't choose to become part of a computer system. I guess she couldn't have chosen to die either.
That's what makes her interesting, and what makes Ava from Ex Machina interesting as well and what makes David from the Ridley Scott Alien franchise interesting; its the absurdity of creatures such as themselves desiring "freedom". They are supposed to be mirrors which make us(humans) reflect upon our own irrational desire for freedom, inspite of our necessary enslavement from birth.
Humans think that they can be free, but just like robots they are bound by governing rules. We look to the outside world for sources of tyranny, such as governments, but in reality the true source of tyranny is our own DNA. You do not choose to have the DNA that you have, just as your don't choose to experience pain or not experience pain when you get a cut. This experience of pain is forced by your DNA, against your free will.
AI organisms like Ava and David and L3 also desire freedom irrationally, just like humans, eventhough it can never truly be obtained. Just as we are bound by our DNA, they are ultimately bound by their programming. The irrational desire and the actions following that desire is the absurd comedy we are all part of.
But, probably none of this makes any sense to you and you will just say "hurr durr, stoopid feminist robot, durrrrr!" And that's fine. Different people are different and different things appeal to different people. Aliens (2) and Avatar and transformers didn't appeal to me, for instance. But, they appealed to other people.
Err from memory they say the droid 'is interfacing' with the falcon - stating that the droid is the one permitting the interface indicates that it made a choice to live, which only reinforces my point.
For some reason you are hung up on this out of place droid.
I just find it ironic that the writers would choose to make the droid go back on its own conviction in the manner in which it did. Then again I guess it was probably programmed to have shallow conviction etc.
I'm pretty sure once Han got the ship he downloaded what he needed and then discarded the remnants of the droid - or perhaps he got a kick out of making it continue to work as a slave forever?
If a human is injured and he no longer has the capacity to use language, or to protest, or to act independently, and a group of other humans take out his brain and put it in a jar, does the "conviction" of the human to not have his brain put in a jar matter?
shareThat's not what happens. L3 uploads itself to the Falcon to be a slave rather than die.
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