Why did Droids get their own personalities mid-way during the Clone Wars? 

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"No wonder he got blasted, he's one of those older models programmed by a central computer." "Not us, we're independent thinkers." "Roger Roger" "Roger Roger" "Roger Roger" "Roger Roger" "Roger Roger"

So, they were overly stressed out, and coped through humor. I can relate

"Concentrate fire on sector 11374265." "11 3 7…what was that again?" "Just fire right there!"

“It’s a jedi, there’s 3 of us let’s get em” “It won’t matter”

Here’s a good quote from Grievous about the incompetence of ordinary Battle Droids: “You expect victory over Jedi, yet all you give me to fight them is Battle Droids.”

BX-224: “Come on there’s 2 of us and 1 of him” BX- 221: “It won’t matter”

legends writers are truly incredible at explaining away inconsistencies between pieces of canon media

Grievous: That wasnt much of a rescue. *Snatches them from the droid* B-1 Droid: You're WELCOME.

I’ll never forget the time I failed to capture a Jedi master and got demoted to food services on the invisible hand

I like the B1s in The Clone Wars. They are typical military hardware: Cheap, overmodified, and used to do too many different jobs they weren't designed for.

They work decently when they aren’t dealing with unexpected things or when they don’t have to think critically. There’s quite a few scenes where they are silent during combat because they already know what’s going on so they are quiet. When their tiny minds are prepared for combat they what they do best: constantly advance forward without fear while shooting endlessly in the general direction of the enemy. When they get caught off guard they don’t process fast enough to react leading to their needless comments and their untimely deaths.

The B1s are my sweet baby boys who try their best.

For an army the prequel droid. For a friend the clone wars droid.

A few thing's remained at least : they were still a threat, had their cool moments and were capable of killing things. Unlike the stormtroopers in rebels. . .

These droids, individually have more personality and development than Rey.

There’s something so absolutely hilarious about the idea of b1 battle droids having a million pop ups come up in their vision telling them that “targeting computer is not responding” with the windows failure sounds

Captain Rex and two of his men: We have you outnumbered Battle droid: outnumbered! Wait, one, two, thre- (gets blown up)

I actually like their depiction in The Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith. I felt like it was fitting for them, considering they weren't very efficient and Lucas himself said that they were cheap and almost worthless.

Droid 1: “this is a lot more fun when they’re not shooting at us” Droid 2: “I still can’t seem to hit anything” Grievous: *just smashes the second droid’s head off*

*"But I just got promoted"* :( rip b1 commander

"Press F to pay respects" *Presses F* *Gets thrown into fullscreen*

The worst case of overclocking cpus in the star wars universe. They went fcking mad, this is so unfair.

"Look, it's RV-551" "No wonder he got blasted, he's one of those older models programmed by a central computer" "Not us! We're independent thinkers!" "Roger, Roger" "Roger, Roger" "Roger, Roger"

I see the comments as references, and I, depressingly, recognize Every. Damn. One.

Honestly, I liked the CW B1's more than the Prequel versions. They just have the derpy, yet (sometimes) self aware attitude that makes them so enduring to watch. I would've loved to see more of these guys if put into the right scenario

B-1 use windows xp

Clone wars droides have more personality than most of the storm troopers

Tbh, I'm fine with the B1s being very comic relief-y. Its more the job of B2s and Droideka to be the intimidating death machines

The B1's had more memory in sound recordings to help them remember orders from commanders. However, the amount of sound recording memory was excessive. So, B1's spoke a lot of their subroutines and commented on their situation so that they could store it in their sound recording memory. This allowed them to just mentally play back a recording to understand what they should do. Obviously, there are many limitations as B1's typically recorded a subroutine, for example how to man the artillery, only a few times before deleting the subroutine. This prevented them from accessing the full subroutine and also caused them to not always access the correct actions due to the limited data set of only a few recordings, for example understanding how to man the guns in a battleship but now on the surface of a planet due to limited recordings. This resulted in B1's being very chatty, but also having a difficult time understanding their situation. Ironically, due to this method of memory conservation, B1's always talked about what they knew, and never asked about what they didn't know due to the subroutine's sound recordings only recording things a B1 has done, not the full potential of what a subroutine can do.

Battle Droid One: Have ever killed a Jedi? Battle Droid Two: No never Battle Droid One: Me neither.

That kid who repurposed an army of droids with a huge program. And the Jedi never wanted to learn gow

"Look Jedi blast em" "No wait, I knew that was a bad idea"

I mean yeah but remember when they spaced the clone troopers in the escape pods? That was messed up.

Let's be honest we all thought that the B1 battle droids are damn cute in the Clone Wars

why the change occured: when the voice actor improvised comedic lines because he could as they did not have moving mouths so the extra dialog would not delay production if included.

“Uhhh...Coruscant That Doesn’t Compute...uhhh...Wait...uhh...Your Under Arrest!”

Well they can't all be HK-47 :-) I can only imagine HK's reaction to the B1's. And I do prefer their TPM portrayal though they will never be as intimidating as the T-800 Terminators.

B1's are ruthlessly brutal compared to those other clowns in recycle pet armor known as the Stormtroopers in rebels.

The reason why the republic and their clone armies were so fearful of the droids was, like zombies, due to their numbers, instead of their skills. And plus, the B1s being given personalities added to the entire show and made it better, as some of the best parts of the show are the hilarious droid one-liners.

“A army of functional idiots” -Geetsly’s

I'm thinking that a middle ground would suffice; have them be more competent and snarky.

Hey, I loved watching those Idiots! They were funny and I was completely fine with that.

My theory has always been simple: Hearts and Minds. If you're going to occupy a territory with robots, may as well make them seem more human.

Imagin a B1 is half way through battle and it’s windows just crashes

Phantom Menace B1's are the best version imo (aside from their fatal flaw)

To tell you the truth those droids aren’t intimidating cosmetically so might aswell make them that way with how they think

The reason why is that the droids programming had worn out overtime causing the droids to gain personality from the technological decay that occurred. The personalities weren’t the only things that the droids developed, they also developed disabilities like being really stupid or not functioning properly. In my series they started out strong but soon decayed and withered away due to the cheapness of the B1 battle droid. Another thing in my series is that some droids were assigned to things that they weren’t supposed to be assigned to. Such as a rocket battle droid commander given authority to conquer and govern planets. It drove the droid f*cking mad. Later on he goes mentally insane and dies in his own base due to disrepair and the lines of code eroding away. A new rocket battle droid would come to take his place earning the name era 2 or 2.0 and he would cause more terror across the stars for years to come. By the events of revenge of the sith the droids would be worthless wastes of alloy and programming even then in my series the clone wars lasted way longer than 4 years, it lasted for 10 years. Droids then would be far gone due to the cheapness and how low quality they are.

“I bet this never happens to droidekas.” p.s. I freaking love the Clone Wars droids. They’re tied with Hondo for laughs.

CW and The prequel’s droids both had their uses. At least with the cw droids it was hilarious watching them irritate grievous. If only we had a moment where good ol palpy was forced to work with them for an episode. Imagine 🤣🤣

Just imagine being a Clone trooper fighting a Commando Droid and all the sudden its eyes go from white to blue thanks to a computer virus

0:23 they were like this in Episode III, actually

I always thought it was because the droids no longer received memory wipes due to the constant warfare.

They're computers and yet they probably couldn't figure out 5+5...

Personally I liked using them as comedic relief. Though I never understood how AI with personality is cheaper then AI who serve a function. I liked the droids from the movie as well. I guess the move from central control to autonomous required individually? Also I was a little disappointed the scene from Ryloth where the droids discuss the older droid models being faulty and they the newer ones were superior was not included in the video.

2:46-2:49 " But I just got promoted " 😭

Idc I have always and will always love their personalities 🤣

Prequels were better depictions but the in-universe explanation is a good one that fits between the films as we see in ROTS how chatty both B1's and B2's were.

the b1's r like ai in battlefront 2, 2017

0:39 who else heard “roger roger” lol

Droid: “general?” “Oh I guess I’m in charge now”

I love the battle droids in the clone wars they're my favorite bad guys for infantry

My Favorite Line in Star-Wars; Roger-roger!

I wish that the voices they used didn’t carry over to Battlefront 2. I want the emotionless, synthesized voice from the original telling me that the republic is in control of a command post

I kinda liked how they were in the clone wars, I mean, it was primarily a fun show at heart, so their stupidity brought a charm to them individually, but it had its moments that let us know that the fights were not all fun and games like it sometimes appeared in episodes, though stupid while being dealt with face to face, being shot at by thousands of those bastards was probably still pretty scary for a clone and even jedi

Kinda sad that they all died when the separatists were shut down

The need to depict viruses in season 7

There's one scene which had me rolling. Season 1 where the Republic is on Ryloth and Mace Windu is trying to find the 'Freedom Fighters': a patrol of "newer" battle droids is patrolling a sector when they encounter some destroyed battle droids. One of them is like "Hey look at B1! No wonder he got destroyed! He's one of them older models controlled by a central computer!" then either the same droid or another says "Not us! We're independent thinkers!" followed by a bunch of "Roger. Roger." from every other droid around. The amount of irony there had me in tears laughing.

3:45 Love the droids in this part.

Droid.exe has stopped working.

B1s are still intimidating when in mass numbers

My favorite from CW First droid: Open fire on sector *random number I can't remember* Second droid: Sector.... What was that again? First droid: JUST FIRE OVER THERE!

I’ll admit, I loved the revenge of the Sith B-1’s. They seemed dumb and ruthless. Kind of a good combo

This only took me 12 clicks to exit out of the adult content I was watching jus to enjoy this

Droids can have so much potential. I liked the tv show droids better, they were hilarious. This dark franchise needs more humor.

For what ever reason this video makes me want subscribe to him two times over than I already have, man I love this channel.

5:25 *well, I guess I’m in charge now*

I clicked as fast as the the fastest ship in the republic on hyperdrive lightspeed

The Prequel version of the B1's!

They shouldve used an inteligent SWARM ai. That way theres no problem of a central computer and they wouldnt be dumb.

The comic relief battle droids filled lists of funny moments and even moments where a battle droid would show over qualified behavior, especially figuring out they were doomed when a Jedi was nearby.

Kinda torn between liking the idea that the CIS was full of ruthless, unnerving machines of war, and the fact that the comic relief b1s made me laugh quite a few times.

Looks like they aren’t the cult of personality

I think that the dopey comic relief works perfectly for clone wars because at the end of the day it's still a kids show, but I would have liked if the went back to being ruthless and efficient (not completely, but to some degree) in the films

“Goddamned B1s” We love you! And I want one with a bow tie and a phantom menace voice!

Prequel droids had the best voices

As always, wonderful video Geetsly's! I like that the B1s became bigger comic relief. They made for a lot of laughs. But even though they became bigger comic relief, they still got kills in.

If I could offer an additional explanation, the B1s were mass produced, so it would be the model most seen by civilians and thus associated with the Separatist movement. Having this iconic droid be chatty, personable, and even funny, instead of just ruthlessly efficient, might do a lot to soften perception of the CIS to non-military personnel, especially the populations of planets the CIS hoped to annex.

I think your data overload in droids not designed for it as an explanation for their change, comic idiocy and personality development in addition to why such droids would communicate vocally between each other at all really passes the common sense test and is actually a pretty clever thought, love it!

Were there other generations of the B series battle droids that never made it to mass production? I know of the B1 standard model, the B2 Suuper Battle Droid, the B3 Ultra Battle Droid and the BX series Droid Commandos. X is the roman numeral for 10 so were there ever B4, B5, B6, B7, B8 or B9 battle droids developed by any of the major droid manufacturers for the CIS but never used?

Just think of it an army of Patrick Star

i LOVED the comic relief. its like they got ptsd and coped thru the war with it

I fucking love the droids man they always make me laugh with their stupidity specially the fire fighter ones and the jumping into the train 😂

B1 stands for Bethasda1

I prefer the B1s of the prequels. A droid army is supposed to be seen as intimidating for the exact reasons you tell us early on. They are to be stoic, efficient, and each model has it's own special task. Of course comic relief is required, and I feel like the small bits we got in Episode One could've worked out in the entire series if things weren't changed. When General Grievous fights Obi-Wan (I forget the exact episode) Grievous tells him; "I am the leader of the most powerful droid army this Galaxy has ever seen!" and his statement would only be made more potent if the basic droids were just like they were in The Phantom Menace.

Basically, frequent impromptu updates combined with infrequent memory wipes caused quirks in the droids programming. Both Legends and Canon allude to this with R2-D2, who never had a memory wipe which developed his unique personality. I believe this is why he survived running the blockade of Naboo; After seeing the other astromechs being destroyed, it looks like he plugs his own power supply into the shield generator to get the shields operational long enough to complete repairs. Thinking outside the box. Thoughts on this anyone?

I like all the clankers

How many B1 droids could a Xenomorph, Predator, or Terminator kill before even taking a scratch? I would say B1 vs. Stormtrooper but the stormtrooper would miss and the battle droid would accidentally trip and blast itself. Place bets below.

I think I am 50/50 on it, because on one hand I kinda like the Droids getting some kind of personality similar to how the show gave us stories centered around the Clones at times, fleshing both sides out a bit, but on the other hand like you mentioned in the video, the show did kinda make the Droids not seem as menacing. Yes, the Clones and Venator ships were the superior army and navy but sometimes it did feel a little one sided/saturday morning cartoon villain-y to me in some episodes.

I grew up with these droids, I don’t mind them, they’re pretty funny sometimes.