Saturday, November 23, 2024

Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

About a month ago, I had a small realization about one of C-3PO's comments in The Empire Strikes Back.  The Rebels become concerned when Luke Skywalker fails to return from placing sensors on Hoth, and in order to re-assure R2-D2, C-3PO says, "Of course, we'll see Master Luke again, and he'll be quite alright; you'll see!"  Then, to himself, he remarks, "Stupid little short circuit.  He'll be quite alright."  The second half of C-3PO's repeated copulative sentence exhibits assonance ("quite alright"), and this provides a sense of thoroughness or completeness, which matches the meaning in a way.