under a yellow afghan
droids on wavy dunes
When I was 7ish, I remember waking up before my parents, turning on the TV, and laying on the couch with a yellow afghan blanket. The only thing I ever remember watching this is Star Wars, specifically on HBO (I remember the HBO intro)...and then only the early parts where R2 and C3P-O escape and land on Tatooine. Specifically, I remember them wandering the desert, with the large dragon skeleton in the background of waving sand dunes.
Having now seen the movie a million times, I know the plot intricately well. While I'd "like" to identify with Han Solo, or even R2, I can tell that I do identify with C3P-O, a hapless people-pleaser who get's sucked into situations and worries too much about them. And, this photo reminds me that the droids aren't always together...C-3PO goes off and does is own thing out of defiance, only to regret it later...this is a pattern that I notice that I do as well.
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