YMMV / Droids

• Awesome Music:
  • All of it. The composers may not have been on the level of John Williams, but they still did an amazing job.
  • The theme song in particular, "Trouble Again." They got Stewart Copeland of THE POLICE to compose and perform the opening song to a Saturday-morning cartoon, only a year or two after Synchronicity!
• Canon Fodder: Several ideas for the prequel movies, as well as anthology movies, come from the series.
• Complete Monster:
  • Governor Koong, the corrupt ruler of the province of Tawntoom on the planet Roon, wants to conquer the province Umboo and rule the entire planet. He makes offers of alliance to the Galactic Empire and engages in various actions to increase his power. Koong takes over the Umboo lighthouse station to send out fake signals and loot the ships he tricks into crashing, and captures his enemies and forces them to be a part of a rowing crew on one of his slave ships. But his worst action was in his final appearance, where he sprays Umboo with the Rooze virus, intending to kill everyone in Umboo so he can claim their land for himself.
  • The Great Heep TV Movie: Admiral Screed and the Great Heep are some of the darkest villains in the series. Screed attempts to conquer the planet Biitu, which has vast supplies of fuel ore, and claim it for the Empire. Screed deposits the Great Heep on Biitu, along with a moisture eater tower that is designed to steal all the water from the planet so that the Empire can kill off the local population and steal the fuel ore. The Great Heep is a sadist who captures nearby ships and enslaves the droids on the ships, except for the R2 units, which he drains of their power to recharge himself.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The made-for-TV movie, The Great Heep, is significantly darker than other episodes. It involves droids getting their power drained (the robotic equivalent of having someone suck out their life force) complete with the lovely image of their colour fading to a sickly brown. The main villain of the episode, the eponymous Great Heep is far more sinister than the show's villains up to that point — not to mention his death scene is quite terrifying in itself, complete with lightning and rain. The episode also chronologically introduces Admiral Screed, who went on to become the central Imperial character on the show. He is only slightly less evil than the Great Heep.
  • Bisad Koon's death. Holy Toledo, Bisad Koon's death. The disease he's contracted causes him to simply...disappear, leaving his clothes behind. Think Obi-wan's death at Vader's hands, but more disturbing.
• Ship Tease: Jan and Jess clearly have some chemistry and care for each other, but nothing comes of it. When they show up for the last time in Coby And The Starhunters, Jess elects to continue her cargo hauling business alone, so as to not tie Jan down, and allow him fulfill his dream of joining the flight academy.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The ending of "A Race to the Finish." Artoo and Threepio learn that their masters have been offered a job, but they choose not to take it because it would mean that Artoo and Threepio would have to be reprogrammed. Artoo realises that they need to take the job, and he and Threepio get into an escape pod, and launch just before the ship goes to light speed.
  Threepio: We may be surrounded by nothingness, but we do have something...friend.
  Iris Out
  • Artoo's Disney Death in "The Great Heep".
  • The Heroic Sacrifice of Threepio's Evil Doppelgänger C-3PX in the comics. Redemption Equals Death indeed.
  • The death of Ket Krax and Councilor Harthan's reaction to the crimes and death of his son in The Protocol Offense comic.
  • How the series premiere ("The White Witch") begins: Threepio thinking Artoo has been been killed. Obviously that was never going to be the case and it's very brief, but still a pretty grim start.
• Too Cool to Live: Both Assassin droid C-3PX and dedicated police droid Zed in the tie-in comics.

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