Wibbly-Wobbly Ramblings

people who deserved better: her

Rewatching episode 3 and I caught Tala’s little smile to the loading droid.

And now I’m thinking about the difference between Leia and Tala’s “What if they have something to say?” “Actions speak louder than words.” versus the troopers’ “It’s just a loader. It doesn’t understand.”

Leia and Tala recognize the droid as a thinking being, who has their own way of expressing themselves, while the Empire recognizes them only as a machine, incapable of understanding.

But we see the loader interact; they look down at Lola when they’re introduced, they shows them into the back room, they ready a hammer when the stormtroopers search.

Just… those few lines say SO MUCH about the people speaking, about the way Leia and the young Rebellion and the Empire see those beings considered ‘lesser’. It’s Leia saying “Thank you” to the droid in episode 1 and the asshole cousin telling her, not in so many words, that that’s stupid. It’s how Obi-Wan carefully fixes Lola just because he can.

It’s the humanity of it all.