What's an example of people not understanding the intent behind a scene and being mad about it?
R2 restoring C-3PO's memory in Rise of Skywalker. It's treated by viewers as undoing the severity of 3PO getting memory wiped, but here's something to consider:
R2 had a backup of 3PO's memory. 3PO has been memory wiped before, and R2 kept a regularly updated backup of his memory so that nobody could ever do it to him again.
The unspoken affection in that... rare TROS win.











